Archive for August, 2010
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
MySpace, which recently revamped itself to look more like Facebook, is now allowing users to sync their posts to Facebook, too.
That means people on Facebook can see their friends' MySpace items without leaving Facebook. It's a sign the site seeks to carve out a niche that is no longer about ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Facebook has filed suit against Teachbook.com, an online community for teachers. The lawsuit accuses Teachbook of “misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook's trademark.”
The lawsuit argues that Teachbook's use of “book” dilutes the Facebook brand name, impairs Facebook's ability to remain unique and creates the facade of a false relationship ...
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Facebook management failed repeatedly to reveal the activity of an international child pornography syndicate operating on their site and ignored continuing admissions by one of the ring's Australian members.
The failure by the social networking site was uncovered during a federal police-led international investigation of the syndicate, which had been using ...
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
With declining ad sales, a stagnant user base, and a creaky interface, the once-mighty social network has a redesign on deck, but is it enough to save the site?
Visit the MySpace offices in the News Corp. complex in Beverly Hills, and you won't see a company in crisis. Underneath the ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
MySpace has introduced new profiles for users, musicians, and celebrities. The goal, was to "clean things up", so MySpace is offering a newly designed MySpace profile and a theme gallery.
"The new profiles offer clean and easy-to-use navigation and simplified organization of content, including a consistent theme throughout profile subpages (photos, ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
In the beginning was the word. And then came 140 words. And at the rate that Twitter versions of the Bible are developing, there could be more than 140,000 words in the next few months.
Rivalling the speed of Creation, as described in the first two chapters of the book of ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Facebook risks a privacy backlash after introducing a feature that shares information on the location of users with their online friends, despite devising a range of controls that require users to opt in to the service.
The feature - at present available only in the US - allows mobile phone users ...
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
ABC Perth Mornings host Geoff Hutchison was yesterday forced to delete his Twitter account after posting offensive comments about Tony Abbott on Monday night.
Hutchison was tweeting in response to the Opposition Leader's appearance on the ABC public-debate style program Q&A.
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
A western New York man suing over claims he owns 84 per cent of Facebook has a copy of a $US3000 cashier's cheque that may support his contract claim against the company and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg.
The purported cancelled cheque is made out to Zuckerberg and dated three days ...
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Computer security firm Sophos has warned that scammers are duping Facebook users with a bogus "Dislike" button that slips malicious software onto machines.
There is no "Dislike" version of the "Like" icon that members of the world's top social networking website use to endorse online comments, stories, pictures or other content ...
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