Given all the recent privacy uproar over Facebook, this Fall’s Facebook movie, The Social Network (adapted for the screen by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher), is going to be all the more interesting. Today, the first official poster for the movie has been unveiled on the movie’s website .

We all know that the iPhone 4 launches this coming Thursday. But on Monday, current iPhone users get an early treat in the form of iOS 4, the new iPhone operating system (formerly known as iPhone OS 4)

Last week, we posted some data from developers who have been seeing very slow performance with basic parts of Facebook’s new Graph API with the latest version of Facebook’s PHP SDK. Since then, Facebook has let us know that they are working on resolving the problems, and yesterday Facebook Platform engineer Naitik Shah let us know that he has committed a fix to the Facebook PHP SDK that addresses a key issue slowing the SDK down.

On Friday, I dropped by Foursquare HQ in New York City. They showed me some stickers , and I got to sit down for a few minutes with CEO Dennis Crowley

Last month at TechCrunch Disrupt, we saw the launch of Appbistro , a marketplace for Facebook tab applications that help companies and brands flesh out their Facebook Pages. Developers like it because it gives them an easy way to charge for their applications using Appbistro’s payments system (previously there wasn’t an easy way to charge for Facebook apps). And today, Appbistro is announcing that it’s landed a deal to distribute Facebook apps from a significant new partner: Wildfire Interactive

You could call it the perfect storm. Over the last few months, user engagement on Scribd has surged, according to CEO Trip Adler, thanks to its transition to HTML5, the introduction of the iPad, and Scribd’s Facebook integration. Of these three factors, Adler says the conversion from Flash to HTML5 was by far the greatest driver for his document sharing company

A decade ago, tech IPOs ruled the stock markets and Silicon Valley. They were the end-all and be-all for ambitious entrepreneurs and venture capitalists looking to become instant billionaires, or at least millionaires. That was many booms and busts ago

Whether you buy into the hype or not, it’s plain fact that 3D is everywhere these days. From movies and games to laptops and handhelds , pretty much every screen in the house is going to be 3D-capable in a year or so, even if you opt not to display any 3D content on it. Those of you who choose that path may stop reading now, and come back a little later when you change your mind.

Like Button Boosts Blog Traffic – Six Apart’s blog platform, TypePad,  reported this week that the installation of Facebook’s new Like Button boosted bloggers’ referral traffic by up to 50%. Adding the Like button for the post footer, which gave users the chance to Like and share on Facebook, boosted traffic for some up to 200%. Facebook, Localeze, Localization – Facebook may have  struck a deal with Localeze , right after the company premiered Twitter Places with Twitter to add venues to geolocation updates

As crude oil continues to poor from the hole in the earth down in the Gulf of Mexico, social developers have been launching various campaigns to help out. Just today, however, CrowdStar started their own efforts to raise funds within their popular Facebook application, Zoo Paradise , in a campaign dubbed “ CrowdStar Cares . ” Reaching over 4.6 million monthly active users within Zoo Paradise (out of nearly 40 million across all their titles), the social game maker has launched a new virtual zoo animal called the Golden Sea Turtle