Facebook Credits Available at Asian, Australian Retailers

Through a partnership with MOL – the online micropayment company thatbought Friendster about 7 months ago — Facebook is making its virtual currency, Facebook Credits, available at a large network of retail outlets around Asia and Australia.

8 Tips to stay safe on Facebook

Facebook is the fastest growing social networking site in the world today with up to 250,000 new users being added every day. But sharing information has lots of risks including your name which can be accessed by others and your profile can be viewed. Anyone can get valuable information and private photos from your profile -- ultimately getting you in big trouble. You can keep this at minimum by following these steps.

Facebook Now Suggest Pages to New Users

Facebook has released a new feature that automatically suggests Pages for new users to “Like.” What’s more interesting is that Facebook has placed this new functionality as the second step — second only to finding friends — in the Facebook signup process.

Step 2 of 4 is called “Choose your interests,” and here new Facebook members will be greeted with a selection of Pages that are suggested for them based on the Pages that people in the same demographic commonly “Like.” Pages are also selected based on how much they update and engage with Fans.

The new recommended Pages feature can obviously be compared to Twitter’s once-controversial “Suggested Users” list, except Facebook’s suggestions are dynamic in nature. Still, Pages gifted with the premium placement will no doubt enjoy a bevy of new Fans. The effort will also increase the exposure of Pages in general and likely increase the number of “Liked” pages per member.

Facebook Steals the Design of Google Chrome OS

Facebook’s quest for the world’s best technological talent continues. The social networking giant has hired Matt Papakipos — the leader and key architect of Google Chrome OS — and VMWare Vice President Jocelyn Goldfein onto its engineering team.