In an interview with Russia Today, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange went all conspiracy theorist on Facebook. He says: Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the worlds most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their location their communication with each other, their relatives…all accessible to US intelligence. Assange...

According to Techcrunch’s sources, a full webmail client integrated with The One and Only Social Network will debut next Monday. This is why it may become your favorite webmail service. If I were Google, Yahoo or Hotmail, I’d be very nervous. Facebook Mail could be a killer not only because of its potential instant size, but because of its natural advantage at making mail more useful. That’s the important thing for...

 Facebook’s mobile platform has three parts, single sign on, location API and deals. And they’re focusing on doing software instead of making a phone. Now you can use one login for all your mobile sites, meaning, log into Facebook, and then Facebook will handle your “logging in” to other sites through their APIs. There’s also deals, which takes advantage of your Facebook single sign on for...

This is truly crazy data: 290 million people play Farmville and other Facebook games—five of the top 10 are by Zynga—every month. Combined, that’s 4,406 years worth of play time—or 105,878 man-years milking virtual...

As expected, Facebook’s big event today did involve some new design elements . But it’s the features being announced that give a crucial look at the site’s even bigger ambitions. The first feature Mark Zuckerberg announced, Download Your Information, lets you download all of your photos, messages, videos, etc. Simple enough! It all goes into a single zip file, so that it’s all in one place, which will then be...