Many people, said the web’s inventor this week, no longer make a distinction between Facebook and the web.
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/ 24 September 2010
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg overtakes Steve Jobs and News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch on the <i>Forbes</i> rich list — but Bill Gates is still number one.
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/ 21 September 2010
Site says it is developing new ways to verify users’ identities and detect when their accounts have been hacked.
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/ 20 September 2010
Jonah Fisher, I now know how you must have felt when you got kicked out of that now-legendary press conference. Well, sort of, anyway.
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/ 18 September 2010
Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania initiates "blackout" of all social networking sites to discover effects of multitasking.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday declared his intention to run in January elections on social networking site Facebook.
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/ 12 September 2010
In many respects, Suite H33 in Kirkland House, Harvard University, was just like any other student dormitory shared by four 19-year-olds.
Facebook Places, which has launched in the US, sparks fresh privacy concerns.
The technology scene has echoes of the
post-dotcom exhaustion of 2002 as we wait for mobiles to catch up.
Last month Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, announced that email was on the way out.
Facebook has agreed to adopt a panic button aimed at improving the online safety of its younger users, a child protection group said on Monday.
An initiative started on Facebook hopes to pull South Africans together in search of a new vision, writes <b>Andile Mngxitama</b>
Four years may not seem like a very long time, but in technology terms, they’re equivalent to several lifetimes.
Social networking giant Facebook is looking to Asia and Russia as it reaches for world domination, it was reported on Thursday.
On May 31, more than 34 000 people around the world committed suicide — social media suicide that is.
Sadly, there is no cure for megalomania. But venture capitalists ought to start funding the search for a cure, because it’s costing a lot of money.
For a 25-year-old, Mark Zuckerberg must have unusually thick skin.
Cutesy non-violent games are taking advantage of the Facebook market.
Buying a fledgling social networking site is the quickest way for a giant corporation to gain credibility with a youthful audience.
Source of <i>Daily Maily</i> story refuses to divulge "well-known social network" where he posed as girl of 14 and received sexual approaches.
Israel’s military and one of its soldiers are no longer "friends" after the gunner posted details of an impending West Bank raid on his Facebook page.
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/ 14 February 2010
The search engine’s answer to Facebook and Twitter is breathtakingly intrusive and takes astonishing liberties with your privacy.
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/ 10 February 2010
Whatever Google Buzz is, it’s certainly got people talking — but will they also be using the company’s new social networking features?
"You’ll have a laugh with me," he promised on his Facebook page. "But it will end in tears. It always does." It hasn’t yet, though.
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/ 30 December 2009
Far from delivering a "wisdom of crowds", social networking sites have created only a deafening banality.
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/ 28 December 2009
Twitter, fuelled by smartphones and online bursts of 140 characters, soared to lofty heights over the past year while Facebook eclipsed MySpace.
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/ 23 December 2009
December 31 1999, and I couldn’t have been further away from a computer … about half-way up the Mozambican coast.
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/ 6 December 2009
The software-engineering and server-farm infrastructure needed to support 350-million users burns money, and so does the bandwidth they use.
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/ 30 November 2009
Facebook comments and photographs could be held against employees, a training group warned on Monday.
Twitter and Facebook suffered service problems from hacker attacks on Thursday, raising speculation about a coordinated campaign against the networks.
Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as hackers prey on users who think the world’s top social networking site is a safe haven on the internet.
MySpace, the networking site that helped launch the careers of Lily Allen and Arctic Monkeys, said today it would cut two-thirds of its workforce.