There comes a point in everyone's life when your wild and crazy friends start settling down and work on creating a family. That's all well and good. But the problem is that these friends, like all of us these days, have grown up putting their lives on Facebook. As a result, whenever someone has a new baby, they can't help but post hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the infant. And when this starts happeni ...

Facebook does a lot of things right, but the way it keeps track of upcoming events has always been wrong. Despite having a very robust system for creating events, inviting friends, selecting specific people to be hosts of the event, etc, there was always something fundamentally wrong with the way it organized those events. If, for example, there was a friend's birthday party coming up in five days, you coul ...

Zynga's announced that it's creating its own gaming social network, and launching a sequel to the ever-popular Farmville. Zynga With Friends, says the company, will connect all players on any platform from Facebook to iOS and Android to Zynga.com. Features and services will include zFriends, live Social Stream and chat, as well as a newly launched multi-player feature on Zynga.com, allowing players to chall ...

Facebook's annoyed users by - all in the name of privacy and convenience - changing users' email addresses to @facebook.com versions. It means that those users who previously elected to use their standard email address on their profile will only display the Facebook version unless they reset their controls. The @facebook.com addresses direct to a user's Messages inbox. It means that users expecting to recei ...

Facebook's dropping its virtual currency, credits, and says it will now allow app developers to charge subscriptions. The switch to real-world currency, it says, will make things easier for  developers, allowing them to charge different prices in different regions. In any case, it says, most games on Facebook  now use their own virtual currencies for in-app purchases, making Credits redundant. The transitio ...

After weeks of rumors, Facebook has acquired Israeli facial recognition company Face.com, in a move aimed at bolstering the company's mobile capabilities. The price hasn't been announced, although early reports put the figure at between $80 and $100 million, and both staff and technology will be transferred intact. Face.com specializes in mobile face recognition, and incorporating tis technology could allow ...

As expected, Apple's launching its own mapping solution with iOS 6, ditching Google Maps in the process. Also new in the iOS 6 preview, now available in beta to developers, is an increased focus on Facebook. This includes Facebook integration for Contacts and Calendar, with the ability to post directly from Notification Center, Siri and Facebook-enabled apps like Photos, Safari and Maps. Shared Photo Stream ...

Facebook's formally launched the App Center it announced last month, allowing users to browse - and, directly or indirectly, buy - a range of Android, mobile and web apps. Users access the center from Facebook's left-hand navigational menu. To start with, it has 600 apps, including Draw Something, Pinterest and Nike+ GPS, as well as new apps like Jetpack Joyride, Ghosts of Mistwood and Ghost Recon Commander ...

Facebook phone rumors are swirling again, with reports that the company's been hiring smartphone engineers. According to the New York Times, it's taken on several people who previously worked on the iPhone or iPad. It quoted a company employee as saying that founder Mark Zuckerberg was worried that, unless the company created a phone of its own, "Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms" ...

Life goes on, IPO or no IPO, and yesterday Facebook released a new Camera for iOS app that allows users to shoot, filter and share photos. The company may not yet have closed its $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, but the app looks pretty similar all the same, with 15 different filters to give particular styles. Users can tag friends and locations, add a description, and then post photos either individual ...