With Gowalla, Facebook aims for World Domination
Facebook is expanding its intent to seek world domination of personal information by acquiring Gowalla – the location sharing service that is more annoying than rival Foursquare. The acquisition was made for an undisclosed sum, rumored to be in the $40 to $60 million dollars. Gowalla had previously raised $10 million from angel investors; the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Oh, the irony: MySpace slims down while Facebook fattens up
The new Facebook layout appalled many frequent users. After all, 750 million people – one in every nine on the planet – now have a Facebook account! Many compared the new layout to MySpace, of all places. The irony: MySpace is now emailing select users to test drive their new homepage layout, which trims down […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainers: Make sure you log out of your Facebook account
When you leave your computer alone for extended periods of time, make sure you log out of your Facebook account *and* lock your computer. Or you may end up like this 😀 Names edited to protect the innocent.
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Time to pick Mike’s brain: Trademarks, Domains and C&D
There is an unreal situation unfolding between social media game maker Zynga and a software startup about to launch a game on Facebook. Upon examining the C&D papers and reading the response of Blingville, we believe this is a case for Mike Berkens who is both an attorney and a domainer – not to mention, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.It’s official: Facebook most visited web site in 2010
Facebook has officially taken over the number one spot as the most visited web site of 2010. According to Hitwise: Facebook was the top-visited Website for the first time and accounted for 8.93 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010. Google.com ranked second with 7.19 percent of visits, followed by Yahoo! Mail […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.TIME’s Person of the Year goofs again – Facebook prototypes exposed!
Earlier today, Facebook was cutting cheese – crawling, that is – for no apparent reason. To many, however, the reason became apparent when changes to the interface, including additional features, were released unintentionally. These changes remained active until they were removed by Facebook a little while later. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might have earned the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WikiPedia locks TIME Person of the year page after repeated vandalisms
As we reported earlier, the WikiPedia entry about the TIME Magazine Person of the Year was attacked by fans of WikiLeaks. An apparent supporter of Julian Assange removed Mark Zuckerberg’s name from the list of annual awards and replaced it with the name of the WikiLeaks operator – currently in police custody in the UK. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WikiLeaks fans instill Julian Assange as TIME’s person of the year
The electronic war games continue. A few hours ago, apparent WikiLeaks fans operating from an IP in Dublin, Ireland, removed Mark Zuckerberg’s name as TIME Magazine’s person of the year for 2010. The change occurred in the WikiPedia entry for the TIME Person of the Year. In its place, they put the name of controversial […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.BREAKING NEWS: Facebook gets ‘Belly’ trademark as well
It’s a shocking decision but the USPTO apparently gave the trademark for ‘belly‘ to Facebook over the weekend, along with several other body parts such as ‘breasts’, ‘arm’ and ‘leg’. This definitely puts a brand new perspective to the ongoing battle for Belly.com at Namejet. Coming on the heels of the ‘face’ trademark, ‘belly’ will […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Face-off time: John Berryhill’s in charge – Will Facebook budge?
In a recent update, Mike Berkens announced at his blog that Facebook has been granted the registration of a trademark for “face”. According to the USPTO, a notice of allowance was issued on 11/23/2010. Facebook applied for a “face” trademark in late 2005, at a time that the now popular social media mish-mash only catered […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Facebook slaps Karma on Google
Guest post by Gwen Davis of Hosting Observer. While most companies are able to obtain free domains from hosting companies, Facebook recently spent a significant amount of money to acquire the new domain name, fb.com. Facebook is now the administrative and technical contact for this domain. This domain currently points to Facebook but there is […]
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