Facebook to Remain on Nasdaq, Facebook Inc. executives have decided to keep the company's stock listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market, despite lingering frustration with the exchange's bungling of its widely anticipated initial public offering.

They determined a move would further drain confidence in the company's battered shares.

Facebook executives have quietly blamed Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. for the technical glitches that marred the stock's May 18 debut.

While the company considered a switch in the days after the IPO, Facebook had decided by mid-June to stay put for now, according to people familiar with the company's plans.

Facebook testing ‘Want’ button plugin , Developer Tom Waddington from Cut Out + Keep discovered that a Want button has been added to the Facebook Javascript SDK as an XFBML tag – . The button is not publicly listed among the other social plugins on Facebook’s developer site. Waddington says the button will only work on Open Graph objects marked as “products.”

With Open Graph, developers have been able to create their own “want” actions, but users have to authorize a third-party app in order for those buttons to generate stories on Timeline and News Feed. If the Want button plugin works similarly to the Like button, users will not have to go through the step of authorizing an app. This means even more users will be likely to click it.

Just as the Like button allowed Facebook to collect massive amounts of data about users’ interests, the Want button could be a key way for the social network to collect desire-based data. A Want button plugin will make it easy for e-commerce and other sites to implement this type of Facebook functionality without having to build their own apps. Many of these sites are already using the Like button, but Liking a product could mean users already have it or that they are interested in getting it. Being able to distinguish between these groups of people and target ads to either one could be very powerful for advertisers and help make Facebook a stronger competitor to Google AdWords.

You may or may not realize that you have a Facebook email address. It’s an @facebook.com address you can use to correspond with people on external email accounts from your Facebook inbox. Though it was called a “Gmail killer” when it first came out in 2010, it seems instead to have been D.O.A. As far as I can tell, no one really uses it. No one seems to want the Facebook inbox to be their main email account (with good reason). Facebook is trying to change that with a new little nudge. On your profile page, Facebook has taken the liberty of making your Facebook email your default contact address. (See right, and check your own profile.)


For me, this contact email was previously either my Forbes account or my Gmail account — both of which I prefer to be emailed at. While I appreciate Facebook as a “White Pages” that allows me to reach out to just about anyone, I’m not a fan of the social network’s screwy messaging system and the way it auto-sorts your email for you, putting emails from ‘strangers’ in a shadow inbox that’s easy to miss. As a result, I barely check my Facebook inbox.


Whether you opted for one or not, you do have a Facebook email address. If you have created a Facebook vanity url (such as “https://www.facebook.com/kashmir.hill“) then your FB email address is that vain phrase at the end plus @Facebook.com. If you haven’t customized your Facebook url, then your email address consists of the random number Facebook has assigned to your profile — which makes for a pretty lame email account. (See right.)