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Mystery Code May Mean New Facebook Music Service

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A long-anticipated music streaming, downloading, and sharing service could be on the very near horizon for Facebook users, as a few lines of newly discovered code found could suggest.

A software engineer was scouring code related to Facebook’s new video chat feature in order to understand how it actually worked with Skype, when he found two unexplainable references to music downloading.

The code:

if (paramString.equals(“com.facebook.peep”))
return this.window.getMember(“VideoChatPlugin”);
if (paramString.equals(“com.facebook.vibes”)) {
return this.window.getMember(“MusicDownloadDialog”);}

 

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Facebook Launches Skype Video Chat, Group Chat & Video Calling

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As rumoured and anticipated, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced video calling, powered by Skype. The company also revealed other chat improvements, including an option to see the friends you message most and group chat, and confirmed that it now has 750 million users!

While Facebook admitted that video chat has been around for years now, the company emphasized that it’s still not an everyday activity for most people. Sometimes it’s too difficult to set up, or ...

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The most popular Google+ user? It’s Facebook’s Zuckerberg

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A Google+ list says that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most-followed person on Google’s newborn social network network, which is beating Google CEO Larry Page and company co-founder Sergey Brin. Zuckerberg stands atop with 29,543 followers. Page holds the No. 2 spot with 19,878, and Brin is fourth with 15,636. Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of social for Google, is No. 3. The rest of the list reads like a who’s who of tech geeks and media people, with This Week in Tech’s Leo Laporte, ...

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Are Skype Video Calls Coming to Facebook?

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The Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company would be launching an “awesome” new product next week that has been built by Facebook’s Seattle team. The press invitations to that event went out today, saying nothing more than “Please join us for an event at Facebook” on July 6. There will be an installable Skype/Facebook app in addition to a Skype window in the browser. Adding Skype video chat seems like a wise move ...

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Facebook becomes more popular than Microsoft in the UK

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Social networking traffic is still rising rapidly in the UK, according to new research from UKOM/Nielsen. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all registered unique-audience figures last month. Such is the growth of social networking as a proportion of all Internet use that Facebook overtook the combined might of all Microsoft’s UK sites – which includes Bing, MSN and Windows Live  for the first time.

“The growth in audiences to these social networks is now primarily being driven by the 50-plus age group,” said ...

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Facebook is 7!

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Facebook, one of the biggest websites on the planet, celebrates its seventh anniversary on Friday.

Through the years, the social network has transformed from a college-only social hub to the most popular website in the world. Five hundred million users, billions of pageviews and a never-ending supply of embarrassing status message updates after its launch.

Have you joined the community on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube?

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Facebook Is Moving to Menlo Park

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Facebook is moving out of its current office complex in Palo Alto and relocating to the former campus of Sun Microsystems in San Mateo.

Facebook has sent Mashable and other media outlets an invite to a press conference Tuesday, February 8, where it will it discuss its new headquarters. The event will be taking place at 1701 Laurel Street in Menlo Park, the location of the Menlo Park City Council Chambers.

It isn’t revealing much more than ...

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Facebook Adds HTTPS Support

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Facebook has finally added the ability to access the site via a HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connection, which should drastically increase security for users.

HTTPS provides a combination of the HTTP and SSL protocols, enabling encrypted communication between your computer and a web server. Without it you’re exposed to sniffing attacks on the network; for example, if you’re using a public Wi-Fi to access Facebook via plain HTTP, someone using the Firesheep add-on for Firefox can easily ...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Fan Page Hacked

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page has been hacked, with the hacker posting a message calling on the company to transform into a “social business.”

The message, seemingly posted on Facebook from Mark Zuckerberg’s account, was quickly removed (together with the fan page), but not quickly enough to go by unnoticed, receiving more than 1,800 “likes” and hundreds of comments in the process.

The message read: “Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of ...

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Is Facebook Testing Voice Chat?

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Facebook appears to be in the midst of testing voice chat with a number of its users, a feature that has been a rumored addition to the social networking site for some time.

Last year, Facebook code was uncovered that included references to Skype and Skype user IDs. Facebook and Skype already have a partnership that tightly integrates Facebook within the VoIP client, but not the other way around. Rumors of Facebook voice chat date back to 2009, ...

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