You may not think you’re sharing with many people when using Facebook’s “Friends of Friends” privacy setting, but two degrees of separation actually goes a long way.
According to a new Pew study, Facebook users who share with …
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No Thanks, Facebook: Poll Suggests Users Don’t Want Timeline
It’s large and in charge: Facebook Timeline is here to stay, so do you love it or hate it? Mostly hate it, according to a security firm poll of more than 4,000 Facebook users.
Timeline is Facebook’s way of jamming all your …
Two Minute Video: Getting Started with Facebook Timeline
We’re all getting Facebook’s new Timeline profile and we’re all going to have to do some work to get it set up. You can either do like I do and crumple your anger into a little tiny ball and stuff it waaaaay down into the pit of …
Angry Birds Is Coming to Facebook on Valentine’s Day
In a development sure to kill office productivity around the world, Rovio founder Peter Vesterbacka announced that Angry Birds is coming to Facebook on Valentine’s Day.
Vesterbacka told Asian tech blog Penn Olson that Rovio is …
Social Media Okayed by the Pope
For all those who have been staying off social media until the Almighty Himself says that it’s O.K., would you settle for the Pope’s approval? Yes, his Holiness has been talking about humanity’s need for connection and how it …
Why Google’s Biggest Problem with ‘Search Plus Your World’ Isn’t Antitrust
Last week Google lit up the blogosphere with controversy when it introduced tighter integration between its Google+ social network and its organic search results. The main charge is that the new service – called Google Search …
Is Google’s Social Search Anti-Competitive? FTC Complaint Looms
Google’s ‘Search plus Your World’ is less than a week old, and already a privacy watchdog group has the company in its crosshairs over potential antitrust and privacy issues.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) …
Google to Twitter: You Quit Us, We Didn’t Quit You
Prepare for a war of words (and tech blogs) as Google picks up Twitter’s implied “is what Google’s doing anti-competitive?” gauntlet and tosses it back with a nonplussed one-liner suggesting the whole kerfuffle’s actually …
Warner Bros. Prepares to Launch ‘Out My Window’ Photo-Sharing Social Network
Move over, Flickr, Instagram and whichever other sites you use to upload your pictures to the Internet — rumor has it that a brand new online photo sharing service is very close to launch, and it’ll allow users to do more than …
Zuckerberg Holiday Vacation Highlights Vietnam’s Unofficial Facebook Status
With Mark Zuckerberg spending Christmas in Vietnam, the opportunity for some snark about the Facebook founder’s apparently ironic choice of destination was not lost. The U.K.’s Daily Mail promptly proclaimed: “Status update: …
MySpace Returns with Facebook-Integrated Music Player
Not content to remain in the history books as the social network that people flocked to between Friendster and Facebook, MySpace has apparently decided to become the new Spotify with the release of its first major product since …
Saudi Prince Throws $300 Million at Twitter (What Arab Spring?)
Here you go Twitter, have $300 million, signed: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, nephew of Saudi Arabia’s king and, according to Forbes, the 26th wealthiest person in the world.
Alwaleed already holds substantial …