Facebook users are currently reporting that they’ve been receiving an email that states “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation” but as usual, this email is completely fake. In fact, it’s not only fake but it also contains a virus. Facebook is currently letting users know that the email is fake but they need help in spreading the word, so be sure to let your friends know!

The text of the message is as follows:

Dear user of facebook,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new password in the…

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Last July we began wondering if Facebook would start competing with Eventbrite with the integration of Credits and the company’s Events product. Today it appears that the company has decided to partner with Eventbrite. Given that Facebook is “larger than Evite”, this partnership could prove to be extremely lucrative.

While Facebook decided to use Eventbrite to sell tickets to their upcoming f8 conference, a screenshot of the event registration page, which was accidentally published early, showed a new integration which required attendees to use Facebook Connect in order to purchase a ticket. This integration could be part of a broader…

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Just over 24 hours after Facebook turned off application notifications, developers are reporting a dramatic decrease in traffic. Speaking to a number of developers, we’ve heard traffic has decreased in the range of 10 to 50 percent, depending on the application, most hovering between an 18 to 27 percent decrease. While our poll sample was small, Facebook developers are now entering the “post-notifications era”. So what does this mean?

There are a number of theories about why Facebook would kill off notifications but ultimately there were two primary routes for Facebook to take:

Facebook fights spam – One option for…

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While Facebook didn’t make any major announcements last week, there was plenty of Facebook news to cover. Between new patents published and granted to Facebook and the integration of Facebook Page updated into Google’s real-time search, it was still another big week for the company.

Facebook Releases New Platform Migration Tools
Earlier last week, Facebook announced a new tool for developers to help them migrate new changes that are pushed out to the Facebook Platform. While not all changes will take advantage of the new migration tool, those that do will most definitely help Facebook developers that have spent the…

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The past week has been a busy one for Facebook, who made a couple product and partnership announcements. Whether it was the new Paypal integration on the site, Microsoft’s announcement that they’d be integrating Facebook into Outlook, or the company surpassing Yahoo! in traffic, this was a busy week.

Facebook Launches Zero
During a talk at the Mobile World Conference, Chath Palihapitiya told the audience about the impending launch of Facebook Zero, which will help users in markets with lower bandwidth access, have a text-only version of the site. This will help Facebook to expand their reach to under served…

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Yes, if you’ve been trying to access Facebook, you’ve probably noticed that the site is down. So where are users going to discuss the fact that the site is down? Twitter of course! If you do a quick search for “Facebook down” on Twitter, you’ll see hundreds of people mentioning the fact that the site hasn’t been working. Not only has Facebook search been having issues for days but now the main site appears to be down for numerous people (or at the least is having accessibility problems).

Here in D.C. we aren’t able to access the site and other…

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The past week was a busy one for Facebook, however Google clearly stole the show last week with the launch of their new Buzz product. While analysts and bloggers continue to analyze the impact of the new product, it’s clear that the search behemoth is not giving up control of the social web easily. Read about Google’s new attack against Facebook and some of the latest product releases from Facebook over the past week in this week’s roundup.

Electronic Arts To Release Madden NFL On Facebook
Electronic Arts has made it clear that they are taking social games seriously. Following…

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One week ago we wrote about a new dashboard privacy flaw that exposes users’ application activities. While it isn’t a major issue yet as the new design hasn’t been rolled out to all users, Facebook is in the process of rolling out their new homepage design to a large (unknown) number of users. So what is the privacy flaw and what is Facebook doing to resolve it? Read on to learn more.

The Problem As Of A Week Ago
Under the new Facebook design, users are able to view the application activity of their friends from the application dashboard area.…

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