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Chinese Premier Shows Up On Great Wall of Facebook
This is a very interesting development, given China's problems in terms of human rights and shoddy, often-dangerous goods. Is Premier Wen Jiabao now in the "cool kids" popular clique on Facebook?"Chinese Premier Wen... Google, Facebook in stalemate over social data
"Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. First, it must contend with Facebook, the No. 2 online...Radiohead, Kylie Minogue, 50 cent launch social networking sites
Status Update: Radiohead is...fitter, happier, and more productive since launching a social networking site yesterday. But they're not the only ones with a web 2.0-style fanclub. Kylie Minogue, 50 cent...Kylie Minogue site unites fans via cell phones
How much access is too much access? Having 24/7 fan access to artist updates via your mobile phone does seem a tad bit much...no? Dear Kylie, "I just can't get you out of my head". Anywhere. Ever. Best regards,Your #1 Fan"Kylie Minogue fans now have a new way to indulge their... Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
Microsoft bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240 million, which puts the value of Facebook at $15 billion. This is significantly better then the $1 billion it was offered a year ago for the whole company. I guess this... CBS, Microsoft, and MySpace Unveil Copyright Guidelines
"Web sites with user-generated content have an obligation to deploy "state-of-the-art" filtering technology to prevent the unauthorized posting of copyright material, a group of large broadcasting and Web companies...Is Spam the Future for Friendster?
"Onetime social-networking leader Friendster has announced a new feature called "Fan Profiles," which is essentially a way for celebrities, bands, companies, nonprofit organizations and other entities to...National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Feds Look for More Ways to Invade Your P...
While some readers may harbour morality objections, the invasion of personal Internet privacy is going up a new level. The federal government is now proposing to intensely monitor adult Internet communities...Facebook App Overload: You've Been Poked
The opening of Facebook's code to allow third-party applications (aka "widgets") has led to a feeding frenzy amongst web developers, with an interactive presence on the rapidly-expanding social networking site...Apple Store Bans MySpace
The multimedia capabilities of the Mac have proven a little too easy: people have been coming into Apple Stores solely to surf MySpace and upload media created on demo macs. In response, Apple has blocked access to...MySpace to acquire Photobucket
"Rupert Murdoch watched Google snatch YouTube, but he's not letting Photobucket get away. Social-networking site MySpace, owned by Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to acquire Photobucket, the Web's No. 1 photo-sharing service, according to a source close to the deal. The...Disney targets preteens with social-networking site
Walt Disney unveiled a program on Tuesday to let preteens create personal mini Web sites like MySpace's very popular social-networking site for older teens and young adults, with parental controls it hopes will create a safe haven. The Disney feature, called Disney Xtreme...Non-Virtual Reality dating sites are so over
Singleshots.com is a New York based dating operation that now has about 1000 photos of datable people - not a very big number when compared to the monster dating boards like Lavalife. But accoring to some who analyze... Who will win the next high-tech jackpot?
A lenghthy piece by the AP on Web 2.0. Worth the read. Here is the opening paragraph:"PALO ALTO, Calif. - As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
But the... Report: Net users picking safer passwords
A sample of login information from 34,000 MySpace.com members seems to indicate that Internet users are getting better at picking more secure passwords, according to a prominent security expert.The average password is 8 characters long and 81 percent of those in the sampling...
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