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The biggest social network on the web — that’s Facebook, by the way — is getting ready to unveil a location sharing service of its own, according to a report Tuesday. Citing unnamed sources, The New York Times’ Bits blog says there will be two Go to Source [Translate]

An anonymous reader notes a long piece up at BusinessInsider.com accusing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of hacking into the email accounts of rivals and journalists. The CEO of the world’s most successful social networking website was accused of at Go to Source [Translate]

While working with Brad Stone on his story about Facebook’s odd ads, I became curious about the apparent randomness of the ads I was seeing on the site. To borrow a line from Morrissey, they said nothing to me about my life. Some ads used information Go to Source [Translate]

Microsoft’s long-awaited Facebook app for the Zune HD may not have waited long enough. After , users immediately reported problems with the app’s ability to pull down content, as well as a slow performance in general. The Zune team quickly and promised Go to Source [Translate]

This week, Microsoft finally launches the long-awaited Facebook app for the Zune HD, but it’s wrought with bugs and naturally, the MP3 Insiders have a few things to say about that. Also, Donald mulls over the depressing fact that people are downloading Go to Source [Translate]

In what can only be described as the most anticlimactic app release known to mankind, the Facebook app for Zune HD is now available. Originally promised to arrive by the end of 2009, the fabled Zune HD Facebook app has maintained a Yeti-like elusiveness. Go to Source [Translate]

Picnik, which makes an online photo editor, Monday that the company is being acquired by Google. The editor works directly with online photo libraries like Flickr, Facebook, and . Users can also upload files to the service and download them again when Go to Source [Translate]

Zuckerberg owns Web 2.0 stalking By Austin Modine in San Francisco • Get more from this author Facebook has been awarded a patent on displaying news feeds of users’ activities — creating an interwebs stir that basic social network functionality Go to Source [Translate]

daedae writes ‘It seems Facebook has been granted a patent for the news feed, as a method of monitoring activities, storing them in a database, and displaying an appropriate set of activities to an appropriate set of users. ‘That sounds pretty broad, and Go to Source [Translate]

Four years after first introducing the ‘news feed’ to its users, Facebook has patented the idea of a constantly updating stream of activities. But it’s become the heart of many social networks in the meantime. Will Zuckerberg and co try to enforce their Go to Source [Translate]