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Facebook Roundup: Prineville, Zynga,

Android, Verizon, Egypt, Tunisia, Japan,

Zuckerberg and The Oscars January 28th, 2011

Facebook’s Murphy Back, At Zynga, Too - Facebook’s

first advertising sales chief Mike Murphy left the

company in October to take time off, but now he’s

back. Specifically he’ll be doing part-time ad consulting

with the Facebook and Zynga, according to AllThingsD.

[Image via Facebook]

Facebook Working On Tablet Interface – Facebook is

set to improve its tablet interface, Facebook CTO Bret

Taylor told TechCrunch this week. That might not

mean native apps, but it does mean some interface

changes: “We could do more with click-targets,” he

said about the current interface on the iPad. “Certain elements are very small.”

Access Facebook Deals with Android - Facebook Deals, the company’s Groupon

competitor attached to its Places location service, is now accessible for Android

V1.5.1 and is available for free on the Android Market.

Boku, BilltoMobile Partner - Mobile

payment companies Boku and BilltoMobile

have partnered to offer better mobile

payments on top of Verizon’s Wireless

network. Verizon is set to offer its

customers the iPhone in February.

Facebook Awarded $360M Damages – Facebook was awarded more than $360.5

million in damages after a U.S. District Court judge found that a spammer had

accessed users’ login information and used it to spam other users.

Crowd Factory Raises $6.5M – Crowd

Factory, the crowd-powered marketing app

company, announced this week that it had

secured $6.5 million from Storm Ventures,

according to a company press release.

Facebook Blocked in Egypt - Facebook, along with Twitter, YouTube and mobile

Internet, are reportedly being blocked by the government in Egypt in an attempt to

quell protests there. Facebook confirmed to Reuters a drop in Egyptian traffic

Thursday.

Facebook’s Tunisia Response – Ammar, the nickname in Tunisia for government

Internet censors, literally tried to steal everyone’s Facebook password in that country

using code that recorded user login information when they accessed their accounts.

Facebook first noticed glitches in December, heard anecdotes about profiles being

deleted, and noticed things were awry in January. In an interesting profile, The

Atlantic reports that Facebook dealt with the problem in five days by first routing

Tunisia’s login info to an encrypted server so it couldn’t be stolen and secondly by

asking identifying information of Tunisian users who logged in when the code was

running.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Fan Page Hacked – Mark

Zuckerberg’s Page posted a very strange status update

earlier in the week and it turned out that a bug in

Facebook’s system allowed “unauthorized people” to

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post to a “handful” of Pages, according to what a

Facebook spokesperson told CNET. [Image via

Facebook]

Facebook Data Increasingly Used in Court – Reuters

reported that case law is increasingly allowing private

Facebook information to be used as evidence in court.

Previously data that was marked as “private” was off

limits, but this is more often not the case in court.

Insurers Use Facebook to Detect Fraud - Insurance companies are now using

Facebook to find out whether or not people are lying to them. For example, one

woman took a medical leave from her job, began receiving disability payments, but

then was cut off when Facebook photos showed her “frolicking at a beach and hanging

out at a a pub,” The Los Angeles Times reported. Similar stories have been appearing

in recent years.

Protect Facebook

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called uProtect.it allows

users who install the tool

by bookmarking it and essentially encrypt their data. The app comes from

Reputation.com and allows only people the users gives access to see certain Facebook

information.

Facebook Used Professionally in Japan – “Facebook is Japan’s LinkedIn,” is the title

of an interesting post by paul McMahon, who writes that Facebook’s requirement that

users be identified with their real names discourages use as a social network, but this

fact also has gotten users to adapt Facebook as a professional network.

State of the Union Chatter on Facebook - The day of President Barack Obama’s State

of the Union address, Facebook was abuzz with discussion about the speech and

related topics. The U.S. Politics Page on Facebook published a post with some

breakdown: Spending was the most-discussed topic, along with jobs, debt and health

care; education was a big one, too, and certain politicos got more attention than

others.

Facebook A Tech Partner with Sundance - The Sundance Film Festival has partnered

with Facebook to bring technical expertise to the festival’s participants. Specifically,

Facebook will offer Sundance Institute alumni advice, educational info and best

practices on how to engage fans on the social network.

‘The Social Network’ Nabs 8 Oscar Noms – “The Social Network” movie, also

referred to as “The Facebook Movie,” was nominated for eight Oscars, including best

picture, best actor, best director and best screenplay adaptation.

Facebook Talks Expansion In Prineville, Ore. - Facebook’s server in Prineville, Ore.

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now the company has begun to talk expansion with officials there. Specifically the city

manager said Facebook reps mentioned building a “second building just like the one

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