We all know Facebook is an easy privacy punching bag. The social network has a tendency to tinker with our personal data, and deservedly lands in hot water now and then with paranoid users, pundits and politicians.
But the latest episode in Facebook’s ongoing privacy drama has little to do with Facebook itself. Researchers at Carnegie …
In a post on his Guardian blog, Martin Robbins admonishes some flimsy science in an article from the Daily Mail. The title of the article in question pretty much says it all: “Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback, warns top scientist.”
The article posits that …
Buckle up, we may be entering the first slump in what could turn out to be a bumpy growth ride for Google+, Google’s slim and scrappy social-networking response to Facebook. According to analytics firm Experian Hitwise, the average time users spent on the fledgling service fell last week in the U.S.
Time to sound a collective ruh-roh? …
Why stuff your website with search-optimized keywords when you can buy fake social media buzz instead?
A site called Plusem.com (hat tip to The Atlantic) is riding the wave of interest in Google+ and selling bundles of +1s — Google’s answer to Facebook’s “Like” button — to attention-starved websites. The site has no qualms about the …
From zero to 20 million unique visitors in 21 days or just three weeks time, that’s what web-tracker ComScore says Google’s new Google+ social networking service can lay claim to. Of those 20 million clicks, ComScore says five million or 25% came from the U.S.
Before anyone gets too excited, note I typed “visitors,” not “members.” …
Lady Gaga is not on Google+. Nor is Oprah Winfrey, Justin Bieber or many other mega-celebrities, but apparently, Google wants to change that.
CNN reports that Google is drawing up a “celebrity acquisition plan” for its new social network, including a way to verify famous people as the real deal. Google won’t confirm the plans, but CNN …
Whoops. Microsoft has accidentally revealed an experimental social search project called “Tulalip” on a newly-purchased domain.
Fusible.com spotted a teaser for the service on socl.com, which Microsoft just acquired. Although the site wasn’t fully functional, it hinted at the ability to search for something and get results based on …
If you’re desperate to get on to Google+ but are still awaiting your invite, stay calm: Google’s new social network is growing incredibly fast, according to one unofficial study. So your chance to join in the Circle-dancing fun on G+ can’t be far off.
According to G+ user Paul Allen (not the Paul Allen that co-founded Microsoft, …