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a weblog by cameron marlow

Category: Facebook

Introducing Facebook Fellowships

Today I’m happy to announce that Facebook will be offering fellowships to support graduate students in the 2010-2011 school year. The program will provide tuition, stipend and other perks to lucky students whose applications are chosen. Lots more details can be found on the Facebook Fellowship page.
The areas are quite broad, and reflect the range [...]

How Diverse is Facebook?

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In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our [...]

B.J. Fogg at PARC today

B.J. Fogg, esteemed Stanford professor of persuasive computing, taught a class last semester about creating engaging Facebook applications. The students were, suffice to say, quite successful.
Mr. Fogg will be discussing the class today an open PARC forum titled, Facebook applications, mass persuasion, & world peace. The talk is 4-5pm at the George E. Pake Auditorium. [...]

Facebook Mobile Phonebook

I figure that I should document useful features of Facebook as I encounter them. It turns out that if you have Facebook Mobile installed, you can see a list of all of your friends phone numbers. Très useful if you happen to misplace your phone.