http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Excite UK - feedback@excite.co.uk feedback@excite.co.uk en Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:29:18 CEST Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:29:18 CEST http://static.excite.co.uk/uk/image/channel/excite.gif http://www.excite.co.uk/ 75 33 http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/3240/Aaron-Sorkin-to-write-Facebook-the-Movie
Sony has asked the Emmy award winning writer Aaron Sorkin, the creator of the West Wing, to write a film about the meteoric rise of Facebook. ]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:49:00 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/3230/Scrabulous-removed-from-Facebook-UK
Scrabulous, the popular Facebook application, has finally been removed from the UK version of the popular social networking site.]]> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:32:00 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/3010/What-not-to-say-in-your-Facebook-Status-Update
Wired has come up with the top ten things not to say in your Facebook Status Update and the results are worth checking out. ]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:10:00 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2938/Scrabulous-developers-hit-back-with-Wordscraper
The creators of Scrabulous, the unofficial online version of Scrabble, have devised an ingenious way to get around the ongoing legal wrangling with Hasbro.]]> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:41:00 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2910/Scrabulous-blocked-on-Facebook
The creators of Scrabulous have disabled the game for Facebook users in the US and Canada following legal action taken by Hasbro.]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:42:00 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2861/Facebook-may-be-forced-to-remove-Scrabulous
Facebook may be forced to remove the popular application Srabulous after Hasbro decided to take legal action for breach of copyright.]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:37:00 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2641/Facebook-facelift-preview-
Facebook users can preview the new design of the popular social networking website via their current Facebook accounts. The new design is easier on the eye.]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:14:00 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2595/Hasbro-and-EA-look-to-challenge-Scrabulous
Hasbro and EA are set to release an official version of Scrabble on Facebook in an attempt to challenge the popularity of Scrabulous. ]]> Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:44:28 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2582/Soldiers-fake-claims-exposed-on-Facebook
A former member of the the Army Catering Corps, has resigned after his claims on Facebook to be ex-SAS were exposed as the work of an overactive imagination.]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:00:44 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2563/Facebook-suspends-a-number-of-popular-applications
Facebook has suspended a number of Facebook applications which break the limits of allowed user interaction. including Top Friends, Social Me and Super Wall.]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:39:16 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2411/Facebook-catches-up-with-MySpace
Social networking website Facebook has caught up with its rival MySpace in terms of monthly unique users according to figures from Comscore.]]> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:45:58 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2347/Workers-would-quit-if-Facebook-was-banned
A new survey has revealed that 39% of office workers between 18-25 would consider leaving their jobs if internet access was restricted. ]]> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:39:27 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2336/Faithbook-brings-religion-to-Facebook
While Facebook is usually used to post drunken photos of your mates a UK based group Faithbook hope to use the site to foster interfaith relations.]]> Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:10:29 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2259/Advertising-shortfall-for-social-networking-sites
US-based research firm eMarketer has downgraded the advertising spending forecasts of social networking sites from £2.4 to £2.15bn by 2011. ]]> Wed, 21 May 2008 13:37:20 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2236/Facebook-set-for-facelift
Facebook have announced plans of a major facelift of its profile page. The new design will see a much cleaner and simpler design of the homepage.]]> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:41:05 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2187/Facebook-borrows-100m--to-cope-with-rapidly-growing-user-rates
Facebook is reported to have borrowed $100million from TriplePoint Capital in order to buy new servers to deal with its rapidly growing user rates. ]]> Mon, 12 May 2008 15:15:02 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2179/Credit-companies-target-young-people-through-Facebook
According to the debt charity Credit Action, credit companies are using Facebook to target young people looking for loans who have bad credit ratings. ]]> Mon, 12 May 2008 09:18:19 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2172/Myspace-to-introduce-thirdparty-data-transfer
Myspace have announced that will introduce third-party data transfer allowing users to transfer their profile data to other web sites.]]> Fri, 09 May 2008 11:50:45 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2127/Facebook-in-reality-funny-take-on-the-social-networking-site
A new viral video, entitled Facebook in reality, provides a funny take on the world of online social networking represented by Facebook. ]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 09:39:23 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1989/Mattel-Scrabble-and-Scrabulous-scrap-it-out-on-Facebook
Mattel have released a new official Scrabble application on Facebook in an attempt to challenge the popularity of unlicensed version Scrabulous.]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:33:55 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1871/Facebook-photo-fiasco
Yet another security hole for the social network]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:10:19 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1835/Facebook-to-launch-instant-messenger-and-privacy-controls
Facebook has announced that it's to launch an instant messenger and improve its privacy controls.]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:11:48 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1746/First-Facebook-harassment-case-in-the-UK-
The first prosecution in the UK for harassment using Facebook will take place this month in Birmingham, where a man is charged with harassing his ex-girlfriend.]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:43:50 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1724/SXSW-Zuckerberg-Keynote-Descends-Into-Chaos
The audience at the SXSW Interactive 2008 festival turned on journalist Sarah Lacy during her interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.]]> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:10:18 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1710/Malaysian-grannys-Facebook-campaign
Is one silver surfer set to run Malaysia?]]> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:00:09 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1605/Facebooks-iPhone-inspired-design
Facebook set for iPhone face lift]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:56:17 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1537/Whats-your-web-personality
The boffins at realbuzz.com know, apparently…]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:07:29 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1540/Bye-bye-Facebook
Social network's popularity slump]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:50:44 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1480/Real-chocolate-on-Facebook
Social networking lubricated by chocs]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:47:20 GMT http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/1459/Bill-is-leaving-Facebook
8,000 friend requests a day too much for Gates]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:08:21 GMT