First of all, there is no way to identify the User, and after clicking on the “Okay” button, I would expect a pop up or some kind of tool to remove users from the group, but the message disappears and you have to start it all over again!

Some background info on Facebook Groups

Facebook announced the new Groups feature, that would help address some basic privacy concerns expressed by many users: Now it’s possible to create groups of friends with different privacy settings and share content with those selected contacts.

Grouping friends was possible before the advent of this new feature, but the new Groups are better integrated in Facebook and offer new collaboration tools that could become interesting also in a business environment: Live group chats and email updates could make the difference in this scenario.

In fact Groups will be ideal to discuss around a specific topic, for instance you could have friends from different social circles that all share a passion for a writer, or the same football team.

I’ll keep testing Groups and updating the article, please comment below if you found the same bug and possibly know a work around!

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Overview: It’s been a while since the last Facebook Developer Garage in NYC. Come meet with fellow developers, marketers and agencies, members of the Facebook team, and your hosts from Syncapse. We’re planning a full evening of speakers and demos so bring your questions. The theme of this Garage is global: Open Graph on a bigger scale, Facebook analytics, scaling apps globally – we’ll cover it all. These events draw provide some great business learnings and discussions so marketers and agencies are encouraged to attend.

Ticket Information: See Website

Venue: The Marlin Room, Webster Hall, 125 E 11th Street, New York, NY

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Advanced browser components could be crucial for developing mobile gaming interfaces on Chrome OS: CNET reports about a new feature that would make it capable of telling which way is up. The browser would know which way the device is being held, allowing the usage of a Chrome OS handheld device as a steering wheel in driving games, for instance.

Tablets and other mobile devices running Chrome OS could be ready for web apps and casual games (even flash games that the iPad won’t show), but what if Google’s browser-operating system was the gateway for its social network?

Chrome OS would indeed provide a great mobile experience, on devices cheaper than the iPad, with seamless integration of search, photo sharing and social games. Businesses would benefit from Place Pages appearing on Google Maps results, that would be more common in mobile search and could help diverting the attention from Facebook Pages. Nevertheless, these features alone don’t seem to be enough to build a product better than Facebook, but the game changer could be one of the key aspects addressed by Google Me: privacy.

Paul Adams, user research lead for social at Google, shows in the slideshow below how simple privacy settings would shape different identities that reflect the the types of relationships we have offline, where multiple independent groups of friends, colleagues and relatives that don’t usually overlap.

Is a “Real Life Social Network” what we need, or Facebook has already shaped our online way of life that it’s now too late to remodel online relations to mirror the offline ones?

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After the $100-200 million investment in Zynga, the biggest online social gaming company, that as reported by TechCrunch, multiple sources link to the launch of Google Games later this year, Google is preparing to enter a crowded market. Facebook in fact is not the only competitor: Yahoo and Microsoft have already signed partnerships with Zynga, and Disney acquired Playdom for $563.2 million.

Small flash games websites that rely on Google traffic will be the ones suffering the most from Google’s presence in the casual games market, but the battle is also about establishing a standard for micropayments for virtual goods. Google Checkout has struggled to overtake PayPal, and Facebook Credits (one of the reasons for Zynga to look for greener pastures) can count on Facebook’s large user base to become the #1 virtual currency for social gaming.

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The advantage of a Facebook Page vs. a Place Page is clear: You can promote your products or services on a platform with a large user base that facilitates conversations and content sharing.

Google Maps Place Pages on the other hand will rank better on Google (surprise, surprise), especially when local searches are involved. Moreover, if you are a small business owner you might find out that your Place Page is already there, populated with content Google scraped from other websites, waiting just for you to claim it.

The lack of social interaction between business owners and customers is what conveys a “dead” feeling in Place Pages (using Andrew Shotland’s words), but the introduction of the ability to reply to reviews could make Place Pages more lively.

Google Lat Long Blog announced today that business owners can now publicly respond to reviews that appear on Place Pages taken from a variety of websites.

Apart from being a powerful online reputation management tool for business owners, reviews can now sparkle conversations and work as a customer support resource that will make Google Place Pages more social and useful.

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