Kudos to Facebook for introducing a bunch of new privacy controls. Users may now review tagged photos, easily control who sees each post and change who sees a post after it’s gone live. Facebook has also cleaned up the way privacy options are displayed in several areas of the site.
Although Facebook claims these privacy changes have …
Good news for rioters and social networking ne’er-do-wells (and, those groups notwithstanding, anti-censorship folk in general): Facebook and Twitter won’t knuckle under to calls they be shut down when citizens get unruly—as England’s citizenry did just a few weeks ago in London and several other British cities.
Yes, we’re talking …
I’m a man of swift, decisive action, with nary a moment to comb through Facebook to round up all the movies, books, music, places, recipes, products, TV shows, bookmarks and fine wines that my friends are bullish on—excuse me, upon which my friends are bullish.
That’s no longer a problem now that Springpad, the self-described “app …
Google’s been on a bit of an acquisition spree this year. They purchased AdMeld back in June for $400 million, and more recently, Motorola Mobility for a reported $12.5 billion. Moves like these, of course, point to strategies the search giant is likely to implement in the near future, and perhaps more importantly, what areas of the …
Well, that didn’t take long.
In a blog post that went up earlier today, Facebook announced that they were adding several new privacy features, many of which are eerily reminiscent of Google Plus.
Their goal is to make who you share your content with more straightforward, thus saving you the embarrassment of having to explain why …
Former Disney studio Miramax is following those two companies onto Facebook with the launch of a Miramax app – the Miramax eXperience – for the social networking giant that will allow Facebook users to rent, and eventually buy, movies through the site.
According to Miramax, there are more than 50 million Facebook users who either …
Liking things on the internet may be illegal in Germany.
More specifically, liking things on Facebook; German websites were ordered to shut down Facebook fan pages and remove “Like” buttons from their own websites on Friday, for fear that both are in violation of German and European laws.
(MORE: Don’t Blame Social Media for Social …
Should teachers be allowed to befriend students on social media? That’s the question at the heart of a new lawsuit in Missouri, challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new “Amy Hestir Student Protection Act.”
The act, which goes into effect August 28th, was created to prohibit inappropriate contact between students and …
Believe it or not, Facebook is making the internet a nicer place to be.
Apparently, the use of Facebook Comments on blogs and websites is resulting in higher quality discussions, as well as the expected increase in traffic. The reason for the new civility? Facebook’s accountability.
Just how small a world is it, after all? A British journalist may have found that you can go from a random tweet to personal information in just nine steps, but now Yahoo! and Facebook are teaming up to find out more with the Small World Experiment.
According to Yahoo! Research, the experiment is “designed to test the hypothesis that …
It would appear that the strange journey of Paul Ceglia — the wood pellet salesman from upstate New York who claims that Mark Zuckerberg owes him a 50% stake of Facebook — has reached an unfittingly boring end.
And what a ride it’s been: We’ve seen everything from Facebook calling Mr. Ceglia (who reportedly has a history of fraud) …
Make no mistake about it: The timing of this is completely intentional. Facebook took to its blog to announce that it was giving its already successful gaming interface a facelift in the wake of Google’s own announcement that it was implementing games on Google+.
(MORE: Surprise, Google Plus Adds Games)
In efforts to make the …
