SOCIAL NEWS
Facebook will buy 650 AOL patents from Microsoft
Submitted Monday, April 23, 2012 @ 01:44 PMarstechnica.com — Facebook has struck a deal with Microsoft to obtain most of the patents Microsoft is acquiring from AOL. See the complete story here.
Google+ revamped with Facebook and Twitter-like features
Submitted Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 02:18 AMbbc.co.uk — Google has unveiled a revamp of its social network, Google+, borrowing heavily from rival networks Twitter and Facebook. The search-engine giant has introduced trending topics and cover pictures, as well as a more "dynamic" navigation menu. See the complete story here.
Facebook criticised over data download tool
Submitted Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 02:12 AMbbc.co.uk — Facebook has updated a tool that lets users look at some of the data the social network holds on them. The update gives people an "expanded archive" of their activity on Facebook letting them see friend requests and login locations. See the complete story here.
Flawed sign-in services from Google and Facebook imperil user accounts
Submitted Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 06:14 AMarstechnica.com — Account login services that implement applications from Google, Facebook, and other commercial providers are prone to flaws that allow adversaries unauthorized access to private user profiles on the third-party Websites that use them, a team of computer scientists has concluded. See the complete story here.
Facebook Decorates Its Roof With A 42-Foot Wide QR Code
Submitted Tuesday, March 27, 2012 @ 06:02 AMtechcrunch.com — When Mark Zuckerberg called for a “Space Hackathon” to decorate Facebook’s massive new headquarters at 1 Hacker Way, he probably didn’t expect employees to take him so literally. A few scurried up to the roof with some tar paint, and now there’s a 42-foot wide QR code on the roof that’s visible from space. See the complete story here.
Facebook strips 'privacy' from new 'data use' policy
Submitted Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 07:30 AMmoney.cnn.com — A Facebook privacy policy revision intended to make the site's methods more transparent is instead kicking up a fresh firestorm. See the complete story here.
Walmart buys a Facebook-based calendar app to get a look at customers' ...
Submitted Saturday, March 17, 2012 @ 03:55 AMarstechnica.com — A report from the retail technology site StoreFront Backtalk (registration required for full story) suggests that Walmart's recent acquisition of a Facebook calendar application with 16 million users is part of a plan to drive more sales through social networks. The Social Calendar app and its file of 110 million birthdays and other events, acquired from Newput Corp., will give Walmart the ability to expand its efforts to dig deeper into the lives of customers—allowing customers to make purchases on Walmart.com directly from event reminders from the Web or their mobile device. See the complete story here.
Facebook hit by technical problem across Europe
Submitted Thursday, March 08, 2012 @ 11:58 AMbbc.co.uk — Facebook was unavailable for a number of users mostly across Europe on Wednesday due to "technical difficulties". See the complete story here.
Twitter surrenders data in hack probe
Submitted Friday, March 02, 2012 @ 12:56 PMbostonherald.com — A Suffolk Superior Court judge has sided with Boston cops in their bid to hunt down Anonymous hackers after incidents of Web sabotage that included shutting down the department’s website and releasing police officers’ email addresses and passwords. See the complete story here.
Twitter is selling your data
Submitted Friday, March 02, 2012 @ 11:54 AMreuters.com — Twitter users are about to become major marketing fodder, as two research companies get set to release information to clients who will pay for the privilege of mining the data. See the complete story here.
Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident
Submitted Friday, March 02, 2012 @ 11:38 AMtorrentfreak.com — A “human error” carried out by the police resulted in thousands of websites being completely blocked at the DNS level yesterday. Danish visitors to around 8,000 sites including Google and Facebook were informed that the sites were being blocked by the country’s High Tech Crime Unit due to them offering child pornography, a situation which persisted for several hours. See the complete story here.
Internet again disrupted in Iran ahead of election
Submitted Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ 08:56 AMreuters.com — Iranians faced a second and more extensive disruption of Internet access Monday, just a week after email and social networking sites were blocked, raising concerns about state censorship ahead of parliamentary elections. See the complete story here.
Facebook Commerce Has Been A Big Flop
Submitted Monday, February 20, 2012 @ 03:04 AMarticles.businessinsider.com — The first generation of stores inside Facebook have been total flops, Bloomberg reports. This is a problem for Facebook because it's one less business it can "tax" to generate further revenue. See the complete story here.
Forget about me? Creepy new Facebook feature tells you who you should i...
Submitted Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 06:19 AMdailymail.co.uk — Facebook now offers 'suggested guests' to invite along for nights out and other events planned through the site. The uninvited guests pop up in a window saying 'Suggested Guests'. See the complete story here.
York Facebook hacking student Glenn Mangham jailed
Submitted Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 03:46 PMbbc.co.uk — A software development student from York who hacked into Facebook has been jailed for eight months. See the complete story here.
MSN Launches msnNOW to Keep You in the Know
Submitted Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 03:34 PMmicrosoft.com — Ever feel like you have to jump from site to site in order to piece together what’s happening in the world? Good news for those who like to stay up-to-date on the latest trends — msnNOW, a new service from MSN at now.msn.com, will help you stay in the know. msnNOW is the first service to surface the latest buzz from Facebook, Twitter, Bing and BreakingNews.com, all in one place. It cuts through the clutter of the Web, providing an up-to-the-minute view of breaking trends and the hottest social conversations, what people are saying about them, and why they matter. See the complete story here.
Facebook to launch verified accounts, pseudonyms
Submitted Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 03:28 PMzdnet.com — Facebook’s real name policy is about to get a few tweaks: you will soon be able to use pseudonyms on the world’s largest social network, assuming you’re famous enough to have one. See the complete story here.
Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where’s Our Cut?'
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:55 AMbits.blogs.nytimes.com — By my calculation, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, owes me about $50. Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene from the postapocalyptic movie “The Day After Tomorrow”: bleak, desolate and really quite sad. (Or MySpace, if that is easier to imagine.) Facebook surely would never be valued at anything close to $100 billion, which it very well could be in its coming initial public offering. See the complete story here.
Record 10,000 tweets per second at Super Bowl
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:50 AMphysorg.com — Twitter said users were firing off a record 10,000 tweets per second in the final three minutes of the Super Bowl. See the complete story here.
Facebook, Twitter Are Harder to Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol
Submitted Monday, February 06, 2012 @ 08:49 AMmedicaldaily.com — Checking a Twitter, Facebook or email account for updates may be more tempting than alcohol and cigarettes, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people regulate their daily desires. See the complete story here.