Facebook has todayannounced Video Calling in partnership with Skype. We’ve put it through its paces and have developed a few initial impressions and observations for you. Weve tested out the Facebook Video Calling feature and it works very simply and with minimal fuss. The overall quality is not as good as a native Skype session, although Facebook has stated that the Video calling app is essentially a mini-Skype client. The window that launches when you begin a video session is a standalone application and can be moved, resized and made full-screen....

Whenever reps from the big digital behemoths take to the stage to discuss their respective companies, people tend to listen. Whether that’s Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, or Facebook, folk want to know what the people from these companies have to say. At Wired 2011 today, Joanna Shields, Facebook VP & Marketing Director for Europe, Middle East andAfrica (EMEA) talked technology, data privacy and the London riots. “I think technology is finally catching up with human behaviour”, Shield says....

It’s easy to draw comparisons betweenFacebook and Google+. Sure, the two products are both “social networks” in which you can add friends, share content, and interact. But the two are actually very different and serve very different purposes. A lot of people in the press decide to use headlines like this to make an interesting story, but once you really dive into each product experience, you can tell that the two are not alike at all....

Had something pop up on your wall or the wall of your friends that didn’t look quite right? There’s a good reason. There is apparently across-site scriptingvulnerability that is allowing messages to be posted to people’s walls without their knowledge or consent. Accordingto Symantec, it’s a vulnerability in the mobile API version ofFacebook, due to “insufficientJavaScriptfiltering”. What you’re getting in return is an automatic redirect to a URL containing the JavaScript, whereby an unknowing user will visit a site while also logged in to Facebook, thus posting a message to their wall....

In order to tempt more users to its platform, Facebook wants to start hosting a wide-ranging selection of games including first-person shooters, sports and social games like those found on consoles, the company’s global head of game partnerships Sean Ryan told populargaming site MCV. Ryan believes Facebook’s range of games is purely down to the fact that its gaming platform is only three and a half years old, noting that the social network doesn’t “yet have that type of breadth” compared to the offerings on Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo consoles:...