Nathalie Blanchard Loses Benefits Over "Happy" Facebook Photos

29 year old Nathalie Blanchard from Bromont, QC has had her health care benefits for depression taken away due to her posting what's considered to be "happy" photos on her Facebook account. An insurance agent for...

Facebook: Email Status Update Comments On the Way

Facebook is rolling out new functionality: you'll be able to comment on status updates via email. I know, when you hear "Facebook" and "new functionality" in the same sentence, you want to chunder, but this is...

Facebook RE: Employee Use Does or Does Not Require Discipline?

Many employees feel employers are overstepping their authority addressing Facebook. How far is too far? Shouldn’t constitutional freedom of speech or expression also apply to privacy on Facebook? I heard on...

What private data have you unknowingly shared?

What photos and videos would you like to take-back?  Introducing IBM Identity Mixer, an anonymous credential system developed at IBM Research that enables strong authentication and privacy at the same...

Vatican Bishops Gather To Learn Internet Skills From Top Techies

Representatives from Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook have gathered in Vatican City today, not for a sermon or liturgy, but to give Vatican officials a lecture on the use of Internet and new media. During a four-day conference which started today, Vatican officials...

200+ Facebook Groups Have Been Hijacked By "Control Your Info"

As of yesterday, 286 Facebook groups have been hijacked by a team called Control Your Info. The group's aim is to point out the administrative flaws associated with Facebook groups, or supposed lack thereof....

Electronic Arts Acquires Social Gaming Company Playfish For $400m

Electronic Arts (EA) has acquired the rights to Playfish, a social gaming company in a deal that could be worth up to $400 million. This should prove to be lucrative for EA as Playfish has already gained great...

TweetDeck iPhone App Goes Missing, Returns With 1.1.1 Version

TweetDeck, a popular iPhone application is currently missing from the iPhone app store. The popular app, usually featured within the store, has completely disappeared for the time being. TweetDeck 1.1 was...

Sarah Palin's Facebook Remarks Regarding Health Care Bill

Below is Sarah Palins full text on her facbook page regarding the House's passage of the Health Care Bill.  The Omnibus Bill passed yesterday, after removal of the payment for abortion was removed, in a close...

Facebook is Getting Old, Says Pew Internet

Facebook is getting old! The median age for Facebook users is 33. While so many high school and college students are poking each other, their parents are getting in on the act. That's not as creepy as it sounds....

Twitter Is Now Officially Available En Español

Twitter is now available in Spanish as of today. Twitter co-founder BizStone posted a Twitter blog written entirely en español to mark the occasion. Twitter language settings can now be altered in the option...

Precedence is Set for ARRESTING People Over Twitter Remarks.

 Michael Wallschlaeger and a friend were arrested and charged by the FBI for allegedly directing protests at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in September/09. "The FBI has accused a US citizen of using the Internet to...

MySpace and Facebook Talk About Sharing Content

The two big players in the social media space, MySpace and Facebook are apparently talking about sharing music and video content via Facebook Connect - which enables access to third party sites via their Facebook...

Real-Time Search - 5 Reasons Why “We” Will Change the Web

If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon. Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that...

Change New Facebook Homepage Back to that Version I Used to Hate!

The new Facebook homepage SUCKS! I hate it whenever Facebook change stuff around. I hated the last Facebook change, as well as the one before. The old version is always better than the new one! I always hated the...

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