Facebook Kicks Off International Push en EspaÃ±ol
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Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site, will kick off an international push on Monday with the launch of a Spanish version.
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Internet start-up Meebo chases Facebook momentum by urging developers to create applications around its Web-based instant messaging site.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS  AOL's Spanish-language portal is now available for free as the company completes its plans to give away most of its services to boost traffic to its ad-supported Web sites.  Formally launched Dec.
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InfoWorld - Facebook took a new step into the mobile realm on Thursday, launching a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices.
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The Spanish government has begun airing emotional television adverts across West Africa as part of its attempts to combat illegal immigration. The $1.4m media campaign is to run for six weeks and has begun in Senegal. The aim of the campaign is to discourage potential migrants from attempting the dangerous 12-day voyage by boat to the Canary Islands. "My son left ... and we haven't heard from him in eight months," a distraught Senegalese woman says in one advert.  It then cuts to a boy lying face down on the rocks, apparently drowned.  In the past two years Spain has signed co-operation and repatriation agreements with Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Ghana.
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InfoWorld - Facebook became the latest entrant into the online video battle Thursday, opening its Facebook f8 platform to outside developers and partners in an effort to gain ground on social networking rivals.
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By Carol Park, The Business Press, San Bernardino, Calif. Oct. 11--SPANISH TRAVEL EXECS TOUR BIG BEAR: For the first time the U.S. Department of Commerce hosted an international familiarization tour through the ...
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By Janet Kornblum  Facebook, the online networking site once the exclusive terrain of college students, will soon be opening up to the world.
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Social-networking Web site Facebook  said on Tuesday it has expanded to enable anyone with a valid  email address to join the service.
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A las puertas del lanzamiento de El SeÃ±or de los Anillos: The Battle for Middle-Earth, algunos fans del clÃ¡sico C&amp;C han recibido un email de Mark Skaggs, productor ejecutivo de Electronic Arts, confirmÃ¡ndoles que ya estÃ¡n manos a la obra con un nuevo
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Facebook took a new step into the mobile realm on Thursday, launching a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices.Vodafone is the first operator to use the Facebook for Mobile Operators platform and has started services in the U.K. and Germany, said Jed Stremel, Facebook&#39;s director of mobile division. Vodafone will soon expand the program to Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal.The platform involves giving operators a set of technical specifications intended to resolve some of frustrating hang-ups when using Facebook on a mobile phone rather than a PC, such as smoothing out login problems and opening up other features, Stremel said.The move by Facebook, which ranks next to MySpace as one of the most popular social networking sites, is intended to grow its user base, which the company estimates at 64 million users. So far, the company says it has 6 million users of Facebook Mobile, an unsupported mobile version of the Web site that will now get full support, Stremel said.At the moment the mobile site does not have any advertising. Stremel would not reveal the financial details of Facebook&#39;s deal with Vodafone, although he said operators will be able to generate revenue from data services as their subscribers access Facebook.The long-term hope for social networking sites is&#160;rich online advertising revenue. Facebook, which has an&#160;exclusive deal with Microsoft to place ads on the site, also did not say when it would put advertising on the mobile site.The company is hoping to lure more operators by the simplicity with which they can enable Facebook, Stremel said.Facebook has created special Web pages with instructions on how operators can set up their systems, he said. The instructions, for example, let operators add system settings that will let their subscribers send MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) with photos or video to their Facebook profiles, Stremel said.The platform also includes other specifications designed to stop abuse of Facebook, such as spamming, Stremel said. When someone sends their first MMS with a photo to their profile, the user is sent back a confirmation message with a code or a link. That confirmation then links that person&#39;s phone with their Facebook account, Stremel said.&#160;
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The new sites â in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Dutch â will feature local language home pages.
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Facebook on Thursday unveiled a Spanish version of its hot social-networking website and promised French and German language editions by spring.
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Facebook, the social-network site  that has enjoyed explosive growth in new members over the past  three months, said it plans to let users tell the rest of the  world how to find them on the site.
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The deal is expected to include an expansion of the software maker's advertising deal with Facebook, which only covers the U.S.
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A small step for the budding social network's quest to be the anti-Facebook: Plaxo has opened up a portion of its source code dedicated to helping users manage their various social networking identities.
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The Spanish language home page will be the default page shown to Internet users accessing the site from a Spanish-speaking country.