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Although a Facebook toolbar for Firefox has been available for a while, there was not one for Internet Explorer until now. With My FB Toolbar, you can stay connected to your Facebook friends even as you surf the web. The toolbar offers instant access to essential Facebook bookmarks, like Facebook…

This past week has been a perfect storm of bad news for OpenSocial, the Facebook-killer that was announced to much fanfare two months ago.  As more people understand it's limited scope, criticism mounts that OpenSocial doesn't focus on the right problems.  And more importantly, Facebook…

Are you a Facebook user who also uses Microsoft Outlook? Have you ever wished that you could have your Outlook calendar update from your Facebook events and birthday lists? Now, you can! With fbCal, you'll be able to remember you Facebook friends' birthdays and all the events you've been invited…

From the makers of OutTwit comes FBLook, a plugin for Outlook that allows you to update your Facebook status and view notifications without having to open a browser. <from the FBLook website> If you are an Outlook user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can update your…

A new Vista sidebar gadget brings the power of your favorite social network to your desktop. The MyFacebook gadget shows you if you have new messages in your Facebook inbox, new pokes, friend requests, lets you see your friends' albums, friend lists, events, and shows you your status as well as a…

Microsoft beats Google in a closely watched contest over Facebook. The company agreed to invest $240 million for a 1.6% stake in this popular social-networking site. It is estimated that Facebook is valued at $15 billion. As part of the deal, the two companies also expanded their existing…

If you're a Facebook fan, don't miss this page on TechCrunch. FriendCSV is a way to export the information from your friends list in Facebook to a comma-separated values file that can then be opened in Excel. Once you log into Facebook and fill in your email address, FriendCSV will scrape the data…

I put a facebook badge on my Windows Live Spaces site the other day as I couldn't find any (working) facebook gadgets for Spaces in the Windows Live Gallery. It was a fairly easy process but as I couldn't find any how-to's on the net I've written one myself in case anyone out there needs a hand. A…

Mel Sampat has created an application called OutSync.  OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a…

I'll be at the Facebook Developer's Garage in Seattle tonight with Karsten (who works on the Facebook Toolkit for .NET), Dare of Live Spaces and a couple others.  It'll be fun hanging out with a few hundred people who "get" web architecture.  If you're in the Seattle area, I hope…