Mixx, to date one of the best-looking competitors to Digg, the preeminent chieftain of the user-submitted news aggregation world, has announced the launch of its very own Facebook app. And we gotta say, Mixx fans will feel right at home when using the social network as their proxy.

Having followed in the footsteps of Digg to [...]

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Facebook revealed its profile page makeover to the world yesterday, but let’s not forget that this ever-popular social network still has a ways to go in order to catch MySpace. Many of the changes we’ve seen Facebook undergo in recent weeks have been the rolling out of new features that appeal to the media-centric professions [...]

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Recently funded site, The Point, is an online petition service of sorts, where you can join various movements in order to show your support. Mark interviewed the founders of The Point a couple of months back, so you may recall that the differentiating factor is the site’s approach to allowing a certain number of [...]

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Mars UK is taking the concept of gifting to a whole new level. The maker of candy bars is in the development phase for creating a Facebook application that will allow members to actually buy chocolate for each other, according to a report on Food Production Daily. Wanna send someone a Twix bar? [...]

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Cake Financial has just launched a Facebook application. You can take your investment knowledge to your Facebook friends, share your investment portfolio and gain from the collective knowledge of all your b-school college friends. The important information, like your net worth, isn’t revealed, so it’s rather understood that this application works quite similarly to the [...]

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Are social networks healthy? That is what is now being asked by an increasing number of analysts today in response to the growing number of violent crimes and suicides related to the world of MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and other sites.

In a so-called “Freakonomics quorum” arranged with six “wise people,” Stephen J. Dubner at The New [...]

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Social browser Flock is continuing to add support for more popular social networks, and today the company is announcing its upcoming support for MySpace. With the introduction of the MySpace Developer Platform earlier this week, Flock is ready to jump on board with the platform’s initiatives for an integrated and direct interaction with the king [...]

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Fuser came out with a MySpace killer, albeit as a Facebook application. This particular app worked by letting you see your MySpace updates from within your Facebook profile. That includes your MySpace comments, messages, and bulletin announcements, directly in the Facebook interface.

When Adam first reported on the new Fuser Facebook application, you were unable to [...]

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