Within hours of its launch, a web app called Social Roulette, which encouraged users to gamble away their social media lives, was squashed dead by Fac...

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as southern Ca...

How many words do you think you've typed on Facebook since activating your account? According to Zeebly's Social Me analysis app, since 2005 I've ...

Brands that have proven most successful at engaging fans over a sustained period of time do so by sharing content, interacting through comments on their Timeline, publishing fun polls and quizzes, and mixing in a healthy dose of engagement oriented applications such as contests.

Facebook is testing a feature called Find Friends Nearby, a mobile app that allows users to view friends and other Facebook users in nearby locations....

The app store contest is both a marathon and a sprint. Today's race is just the latest lap around the "software store" track. My advice to the digital consumer is to play the field, don't bet on a single runner, enjoy the spectacle and always download wisely.

Since 2004, Facebook has gone through dozens of makeovers, some -- like the recent revamp that converted all profiles to the new timeline format -- mo...

Facebook is taking a giant leap toward making app discovery a more user friendly experience. On Wedesnday, Facebook announced that it will open an...

Facebook's Timeline apps are about to get a lot more interactive. The social network announced in a post on its Developer Blog the rollout of "acti...

Maybe we should be prepared for the phrase "enemy someone on Facebook" to enter the lexicon. EnemyGraph, a new app for Facebook, allows users to do...

Facebook last September announced a revamped profile layout, called the Timeline. The social network also debuted a handful of new social apps designe...

Facebook is more than a social network. It's also a platform that allows independent developers to create applications, or "apps" that greatly expand what the service can offer.

Back in December 2011, Facebook up and bought location-based social networking site Gowalla without much of an explanation -- but now, we think we kno...

The recent revelations that some iPhone and Android apps are uploading and storing users' phone address books without permission not only violates the privacy of the person using the phone but, potentially, everyone in that person's address book.

At the Huffington Post, we're all about starting conversations. That's why we're introducing the HuffPost Social Reading app to share the stories you read on your Facebook timeline.

Facebook is about to cash in on a public offering that looks likely to net Mark Zuckerberg $28 billion, make hundreds of its employees millionaires, a...

This week, Facebook held a quiet coming-out party for a new class of "frictionless" apps that will automatically share on Facebook any action you take...

On Wednesday night, Facebook introduced a new batch of frictionless apps, which the social network hopes will help you and your friends share more abo...

On a day during which many Internet users protested a bill that could limit the amount of content across the Internet, Facebook is rolling out major n...

The big winner in Zynga's IPO, the largest by an Internet company since Google went public, isn't the shareholders or the employees or even the execut...

Facebook is introducing two new security features that will allow users to create passwords for third-party applications and to turn to their friends ...

Dislike that the new Facebook automatically displays to your friends and saves to your profile every song that you listen to on Spotify? Never again w...