An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but failing that, a bucketful of apologies should do the trick. It appears to be working for Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, and the rest of Discovery Channel's Mythbusters crew after an errant 30-pound cannonball fired during filming of a TV episode rolled through a neighborhood in Dublin, California and hit every inanimate object it could find.
As tempting as it might be to dump your drink on the person sitting in front of you or jar their seat like you're trying to kick the winning field goal as a not-so-friendly reminder of cell phone etiquette, consider for a moment that maybe they're actually supposed to be using their smartphone during the live performance of The Lion King or Wicked. Love it or hate it, dedicated seats for tweeters are growing in popularity.
For a few hours today, Facebook users were able to snoop around in other users’ private photos thanks to a flaw in the Facebook code. Interestingly, the issue was present in the abuse reporting tool. The flaw did not expose all a user’s photos, but several choice snapshots could be harvested with the hack. Facebook patched the exploit, but not until the Internets snatched some of Zuckerberg’s personal photos.
Facebook is determined to double up its workforce, and it plans to do that by hiring "thousands of employees" in the Big Apple. The world's largest social networking playground has already begun accepting applications as it prepares to open a new engineering center in New York City next year, the first of its kind in the East Coast. Facebook currently employs around 100 people at its New York facility, compared to around 3,000 employees in California.
Facebook has had its own version of a Foursquare style check in system for ages now, but given that just about everyone including myself still calls it a “Foursquare style check in system” suggests they’ve failed somehow. Given how many users the social networking giant hosts each month one would have suspected the in-house solution would have picked up critical mass by now, but somehow it seems to have stumbled. Now according to reports, Facebook has acquired Foursquare competitor 
Readers of Maximum PC know that our own Gordon Mah Ung hates social networking. But he loves to rant, as evidenced by our podcasts, and if he ever chose to embrace Facebook, he could spout off whatever injustices he feels like raging about, 60,000 characters at a time. Actually, Facebook bumped up the posting limit to 63,206, and we're sure Gordon would have no trouble ranting for an additional 3,000 characters.
There's no question Facebook will fetch a ton of cash if it's thrust upon the stock market, you can be as sure about that as anything else in this world. But can it fetch $10 billion? According to at least one report, that's how much Mark Zuckerberg and company hope to raise when Facebook goes public next year. If an initial public offering (IPO) brings in that kind of cash, it will ultimately value Facebook at more than $100 billion.
The rumors have been swirling quite literally for years, but All Things D claims to have a line on the real Facebook phone that is being developed be the social networking company. The device is codenamed “Buffy” after the iconic TV vampire slayer, and is being designed by Taiwan's HTC Corporation. As for software, Buffy is going to be loaded with a heavily modified version of Android.
According to sources inside the company, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg nearly set kicked off full-scale pandemonium at the Facebook offices when he recently told employees the long-awaited IPO was coming soon. Facebook has been teasing the market for the better part of a year with speculation that it would file its S-1 papers and sell stock publicly. For employees, that would mean a chance to finally cash in on all that stock.
We know what you're thinking -- cyberspace needs another social network like, well, cyberspace needs another social network. No further example is necessary, and some would say it's tough enough trying to juggle Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, and even LinkedIn (for the more business oriented folk). Is there room for Microsoft to add yet another social portal?
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