Man, I love Bruce Schneier. Here’s a pithy, pitch-perfect summary of your relationship with Facebook:
Social networking websites are “deliberately killing privacy” in order to make a profit, according to renowned security author Bruce Schneier.
Speaking at the RSA Europe security conference in London on Tuesday, the BT Counterpane
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News of Facebook and Skype hopping into bed together broke the other week but now it’s official. Skype just announced that Facebook’s News Feed and Phonebook would be integrated into the latest update of Skype for Windows. Sorry, Mac owners, we’re left in the dark on this one.
Besides News Feed and Phonebook integration, Skype …
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, now has Facebook integration. The integration hasn’t gone live for all users quite yet, but it should be “rolling out in the days to come,” says Microsoft.
When you search for a specific person by name using Bing, you’ll see “the people closest to you based on your social connections on Facebook,” …
The moment you have been waiting for has arrived: You can finally show your disapproval for your friend’s posts. No more comments of “I dislike this” or liking something but really meaning you are commiserating with the person.
It’s not so clear cut though. Now you can rate a status up or down, and a percentage of how many people like …
An ancient joke (popularized if not invented by Henny Youngman) has a patient saying “Doctor, it hurts when I do this.” To which the doctor replies, of course, “Don’t do that!”
I thought of that bit this week when I compiled some tips on how to enjoy Facebook–a service which I find mostly fun, but sometimes frustrating–for my …
FriendShuffle takes the idea that you share similar interests with your Facebook friends and runs with it. You go to FriendShuffle.com and sign in with your Facebook credentials, and then any web address—article, video, blog post, whatever—that one of your friends has tagged using Facebook’s "like" button will show up chronologically
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced three major changes to Facebook, emphasing the fact that the website is a social platform that you can bring connections you make on other websites and systems to.
There have been some small changes to some of the features that have been rolled out over the summer, including improving hi-res …
Facebook is inviting the press into their headquarter today at 10 AM PST, which only means one thing: Something is about to change.
The invite didn’t say much, but people are guessing what the reveal could be. Many sites, including TechCrunch, are pointing to a site wide redesign. Some users are already seeing the Facebook chat …
Get ready to click that untag button, ladies and gents.
Facebook is going to post your most unflattering moments in high-definition for all your friends (and since the privacy updates keep changing, pretty much all the users) to see. According to their official blog, you can now upload pictures with higher resolution. Not only will …
I’ve seen The Social Network, and I think it’s the real deal: A near-flawless, groundbreaking, intoxicating vision of the time span during which a whole new world order defined itself. And I’ve found myself a little perplexed by all the critiques out there that have called into question the shallowness or flimsiness of the …
Get ready for Grandma to say hello more often on Facebook.
According to All Things Digital, Facebook and Skype are getting ready to announce a “significant and wide-ranging” partnership. The companies hope to bring SMS, voice chat and Facebook Connect all together so you’ll have no need to use any other service to contact your friends …
As an outage, it wasn’t as lengthy as Skype’s 2007 two-day disappearance. As a bug, it didn’t produce results as hilarious as the 2009 screwup that left Google identifying the entire Web as malware. But the Facebook glitch that left “many” users without access to the site for two and a half hours must rank among the Web’s bigger …
