After nearly a month to the day of being released in the US, UK users can today begin to use Facebook’s new location service ‘Places’. The new service, which was launched in the US on the 19th August, allows users to check into locations in much the same way as you could with other services such as Foursquare. Users also have the ability to tag their friends at locations and this information is displayed on your news feed for all your friends to see. (more…)

Data published by Hitwise has shown that Facebook accounts for a staggering 1 in 6 online pages viewed in the UK. As a percentage this is 16.73% which makes Facebook the most visited site in terms of total page views in the UK. Of all the social networking sites Facebook also accounts for over half of all visits with all the other social sites left to pick up the 46.52% scraps. (more…)

Facebook is planning to release a new feature that allows users to share their current location with friends in their status updates. According to reports users will be able to ‘check-in’ to a range of different locations that will be included within their status updates. (more…)

As the build up for the next general election gathers pace, we constantly hear references to this being the UK’s first “digital election”. Back in 2005 Facebook was barely a year old, YouTube only 2 months old and Twitter did not exist at all!

BBC News reports that over the weekend Facebook is to ask its 23 million UK users whether they have registered to vote in a tie-up with the Electoral Commission. (more…)

It seems that the Facebook “Become a Fan” frenzy will soon be coming to an end. According to the site Clickz, Facebook has started contacting ad agencies informing them that the “Become a Fan” will be changed to a “Like” button in the next few weeks. (more…)

Facebook is expected to generate more than $2 billion in advertising revenue in the next two years according to an article in The Australian. (more…)

It has recently been announced that AOL are to sell its social networking site Bebo and instant messaging service ICQ to Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies (DST). (more…)

An interesting study in the US has found that more young people are turning to Twitter as Facebook users are getting older. The research conducted by the Paw Internet & American Life Project found that the average age of Facebook users has jumped seven years from 26 to 33 compared with the average age of Twitter users which was 31. (more…)