There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg has been named Person of the Year. At age 26, Zuckerberg is the second youngest person to receive the honors—Charles Lindbergh was the youngest at 25.
Runners up this year:
4. Hamid Karzai
5. The Chilean …
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has taken the wraps off of Jumo, a social networking site focused on helping people find and support reputable charities. Hughes told the New York Times that he hopes the site will do for charities “what Yelp did for restaurants.”
Eligible charities must be certified as tax-exempt organizations to …
It had to come sometime. MySpace has conceded the battle for supreme social network to Facebook, saying that they prefer to focus on “music entertainment content” on Fox Business Network.
(More on TIME.com: The End Is Near: Will MySpace Sink After Departure Of Another CEO?)
“We are no longer competing. MySpace is focused …
You can now log into the social network that nobody uses anymore with your username and password from the social network everyone uses. And with that, MySpace has pretty much given up on trying to be a social network in the interest of serving as a personalized entertainment site instead.
That’s actually pretty smart.
You can now …
Zynga, the company behind wildly popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and FrontierVille, has announced that CityVille will be rolling out “in the coming weeks.”
(More on Techland: Rumor: Zynga Prepping ‘CityVille’ Social Game?)
Zynga is calling CityVille its “most social game to date.” You’ll be able to build your own city …
There’s a new photo sharing service in town. Path, available initially for iPhone, makes the idea of social networking an images-only affair and limits your network to just 50 people. The result is a “place you will always feel comfortable being yourself and sharing the story of your life with your closest friends and family,” according …
Facebook launched a whole heaping helping of mobile stuff today. Fun fact: President Obama had the audacity to hold a live press conference at the same time. What’s with that guy?! And the Giants had their World Series parade at the same time. What’s with those guys?!
Here’s what’s coming from …
Long overdue for a graphical overhaul, MySpace will be rolling out a new design to members between now and the end of November.
According to MySpace CEO Mike Jones:
“The new Myspace is cleaner, with a new design that puts content center stage. It’s also smarter, providing you with a personalized experience by recommending content
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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,” …
There’s a little bit of buzz going around about an open source project known as Diaspora. While some have likened Diaspora to an “anti-Facebook” or “Facebook killer,” it’s not quite that simple.
The project was started by four students at NYU earlier this year, right around the time that Facebook came under fire for various privacy …
Gateway has expanded its line of NV-series notebooks with the NV59, a 15.6-inch machine starting at $630 and decked out with an Intel Core i3 or i5 processor (depending upon the configuration), optional Blu-ray (staring at $800) and featuring a series-wide “integrated ‘social networking’ button that allows customers to access …
Well, now there’s apparently reasonably pure water ice fricking everywhere. I’m not even surprised anymore. Maybe they ought to just start listing the planets that don’t have ice on them.
