Since the ticker a light weight news feed seen on the upper right hand part of Facebook.com was launched in August. The social context ads had been running only via the app ticker for Facebook games. Facebook will increase the distribution for Sponsored Stories by allowing them to run in the ticker across the site. [...]

If you want to have a say in the design of Go, Google’s lower-level programming language, you’d better act fast. That’s because Google plans to finalize the language in coming months and back it into its Google App Engine service. The company released Go along with programming tools and other open source assets almost exactly [...]

In recent years, Firefox has lost ground to browsers such asGoogle Chrome. Yet Firefox remains a significant and important part of the browsing landscape. It’s a big week for Mozilla, as Firefox celebrates its seventh birthday and Firefox 8 hits the interwebs. Firefox 8 is Mozilla’s fifth major release in 2011. After releasing Firefox 4 [...]

Subscriptions, which launched last week, lets you see people’s public posts in your News Feed, without having to friend them. And while Facebook Subscriptions is an interesting way to broaden your network and connect with people you otherwise wouldn’t have contact with, some critics have panned it for its complexity. If you don’t use it [...]