Facebook has stirred up a bit of a storm over theroll-outof its Tag Suggestions feature. It seems people don’t the idea of Facebook automatically identifying them in other people’s pictures and allowing them to be tagged. The news causeda busy threadon The Next Web’s Facebook page, where readers are split over whether this is really disturbing technology or incredibly cool. On one hand, Lynn Taylor says it’s an “Invasion of privacy“, while Chris Johnson says that it’s “About me being able to control what images I’m tagged in....

Yesterday,we postedthatFacebookis about to announce something awesome. Speculation runs high that Facebook will finally release its iPad application, filling a hole which has been desperately wanted by its mobile-loving users. But another consideration is that Facebook is finally partnering withSkypeto offer live video chat to its users. Whatever product is released, it has been built by Facebook’s 40-person Seattle team. And do you know what is near Seattle?Microsoft. And what hasMicrosoft just bought?...

Facebookhas acquired the Dutch software development firmSofa, the smaller companyannounced in a blog posttoday. Sofa is an Apple Design Award winner and is behind the popular Mac applicationsKaleidoscopeandVersions. The company is known for its stunning interface and icon design. Sofa says they will be relocating their team from Amsterdam to Palo Alto. The company’s apps were not acquired by Facebook, and the sofa team is working on a plan for them outside of Sofa....

Ever wondered what your friends were doing on the Facebook Pages that you both like? Wonder no longer, because Facebook has just introduced a new tab to the sidebar of Pages that will show Friend Activity: So while you might have been seeing your friends’ activity in your sidebar Ticker (hate that?You can disable it.), the new tab will show you precisely what they’ve been doing on a Page, and it’s a bit easier to follow than a quickly-scrolling feed....

In a bid to reduce the amount of spam on its social network, Facebook has begun integrating new controls that assist developers in maintaining their apps, also introducing granular restrictions to stop certain parts of an app from issuing spam updates. In a blog post on itsDeveloper blog, Facebook said it had amended the hundreds of filters in place to reduce the number of erroneously disabled apps. Identifying the impact that the disabled apps had on both Facebook and its developers, the social giant has implemented new feedback metrics into a developer’s “News Feed” to highlight both positive and negative user feed so that app creators can monitor opinions of their apps to better provide services for their users....