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Facebook threatens USocial with legal action over paid friends

Dave Parrack — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:15:07 +0000

USocial has been offering Facebook friends for sale for a couple of months now. But it hasn’t taken long for Facebook to threaten legal action, sending a cease and [...]

Why Facebook is a company to watch in online video

Dave Jeyes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:41:27 +0000

In the last month, Facebook has overtaken sites like ESPN, ABC and CBS to become the number three video site on the Web.

Just a short month ago, Facebook was in tenth place [...]

Email could die within a decade thanks to Facebook, Twitter, Skype

Dave Parrack — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:39:48 +0000

Email is currently one of the key elements of the Internet. And sending and receiving email is usually one of the first things we learn [...]

Stephen Fry talks Twitter – “human shaped, not business shaped”

Dave Parrack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:00:20 +0000

Twitter is a massively popular social networking and micro-blogging site that has gained an inordinate amount of headlines and copy over the past year or so. But [...]

“Unfriend” leads tech charge in 2009’s top words

John Lister — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:02:25 +0000

Unfriend – to remove a contact on a social networking site – has been named the word of the year by staff from the New Oxford American Dictionary. Its editors say several tech-related words were considered for the honor.

As somebody who writes [...]

Don’t become a victim of Facebook bullying

Dave Parrack — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:34:48 +0000

Bullying has been around for generations and will likely remain a problem for generations to come. The problem is it evolves over time, with playground bullying first moving to mobile phones and email [...]

Twitter starts shrinking in October

Dave Jeyes — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:56:20 +0000

After a nearly flat September, Twitter saw a whopping 8 percent drop in users during the month of October. Has the service reached critical mass long before becoming mainstream?

Looking at Twitter’s traffic numbers as reported by Comscore, the service [...]

Facebook status update used as alibi in robbery case

Dave Parrack — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:16:53 +0000

Facebook has often played a part in getting people into trouble. But this is the first time that it’s been used to get someone out of trouble. It seems [...]

Facebook group “hacking” proves overblown

John Lister — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:17 +0000

Recent reports that a gang hacked into dozens of Facebook groups appear to be somewhat overplayed. Instead those involved have exploited a flaw in the way such groups work which could cause embarrassment rather than a security risk.

The issue affects common interest groups set up [...]

Does technology isolate us – or not?

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:20:32 +0000

We have been hearing for years that technology tends to make people less social, replacing personal and non-virtual interaction with much less personal activities, but a new Pew poll says that may not [...]