Rana Sobhany

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GameFly Jumps Aboard Facebook Beacon Bandwagon

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GameFly is a video game rental service that allows users to choose their games online and have their choices mailed to their house. Basically, it’s Netflix for gamers. Evidently, GF [...]

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Search for Kyle Fleischmann Recruits 34,000 Members

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The Facebook community has unified around locating Kyle Fleischmann, a 24-year old graduate of Elon University, who has been missing since November 9. The group, Help Find Kyle Fleischmann-MISSING, has [...]

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Facebook+Wikipedia=Wikia Search?

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Matthew Buckland broke the first screen shot of Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales’ new venture into the social networking arena, Wikia Search. The screenshot, a user profile page, was taken at a [...]

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3 Weeks and Counting

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Henry Blodget’s article yesterday raises some pretty interesting points about Facebook’s current financial state when coupled with the effectiveness of Facebook’s advertising model. Considering that two hedge funds felt that [...]

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Yahoo! Music Launches Indie Music Player

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Well, Yahoo! has thrown their proverbial hat into the Facebook application ring and I have to hand it to them, their new app is highly addictive. Using Yahoo! Music Blog [...]

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FlightStats Application Streamlines Flight Tracking

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I can’t deny it any longer: I’m a big fan of mashups. However, most mashups seem to serve a very limited, niche purpose that needs to be fully adopted by [...]

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BREAKING: Facebook Forum Hacked!

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Allfacebook received an email today from Boris Silver, the developer behind the Total Sports Fan application, regarding a hacked forum. Although Total Sports Fan is a third party app, the [...]

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Breaking: Colbert Mobilizes 1,000,000 in One Week

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Well, they’ve done it. The fastest growing Facebook group ever has reached its goal of 1,000,000 members in nine days. I must admit, I joined this group relatively shortly after [...]