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A magazine accused of publishing a blogger’s story without permission has seen a dramatic rise in the number of its Facebook friends, although they’re not all that friendly. The tale of writer Monica Gaudio hit the Web on Wednesday after she reported that her story, “A Tale of Two Tarts,” was apparently lifted and published [...]

Bing has rolled out its new social search, a feature that can display profiles and updates from your Facebook friends as part of your Bing search results. This step of the Facebook integration has been in the works for a few weeks, but the techs at Bing fine-tuned the feature before yesterday’s rollout, according to [...]

Looking for the right gift for your favorite Facebook friend? A new service from the team of Amazon and Facebook can recommend the right products for shoppers by peeking at their Facebook profiles. Launched as a beta on Monday, the new opt-in service will suggest gifts for your friends by checking out their favorite movies, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–Facebook’s Open Graph is the reason there are Facebook “Like” buttons strewn across the Web on sites that Facebook doesn’t operate. Eric Tseng, Facebook’s head of mobile products and a former product manager of the Google Nexus One phone, told the room at MobileBeat 2010 that Open Graph is going mobile. What does this [...]

Microsoft’s Outlook Social Connector has just gotten a bit more social courtesy of a new update that has added Facebook and Windows Live Messenger integration to its mix. Unveiled Tuesday, the latest version lets Microsoft Outlook users view status updates, wall posts, and photos of their Facebook friends without leaving their e-mail. People will also [...]

Facebook’s latest modifications make it pretty clear that the company is eager to spread its brand even further across the Web–and that’s left some privacy advocates a little freaked out as they look at the vast amount of personal information that Facebook has on hand. But Facebook, of course, maintains that this is all ultimately [...]

I’m working on a story about understanding and managing Facebook’s new privacy options. I’m trying to find the silver lining in the story from the consumer’s perspective, so I can present reasonable options other than “just turn it all off!” Here is one positive thing to emerge: Likebutton.me. It’s an aggregation site that reminds me [...]

Facebook made several important announcements on Wednesday. I’ll leave the details to others–this is a music-focused blog, after all–but I think that Facebook’s leaders have positioned it as the infrastructure provider of the emerging social Web and potentially as the first Internet company to challenge Google’s dominance in online advertising. Basically, now that everybody (400 [...]

Facebook and Microsoft have teamed up on an online document-sharing service that looks more than a little like Google Docs. Docs.com went live on Wednesday at Facebook’s F8 conference. The site allows Facebook users to log in using Facebook Connect and create, edit, and share Microsoft Office documents with their Facebook friends. New documents will [...]

More than a social statement than an actual utility for aspiring Colton Harris-Moore* copycats, a new site called Please Rob Me has popped up to expose the potential pratfalls of the geolocation craze: If you’re pushing a “check-in” from Gowalla, Brightkite, or Foursquare to a local restaurant out to your public Twitter stream, you’re broadcasting [...]