Archive for November, 2010
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
The Australian newspaper on Tuesday distanced itself from claims it would sue journalism academic Julie Posetti over messages it said were defamatory about its editor on Twitter.
In an article published on the newspaper's website last Friday, its editor, Chris Mitchell, said he would sue Posetti for defamation because of Twitter ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
News Corporation chief operating officer Chase Carey said his company is open to a sale of the beleaguered site MySpace although they are pleased with its new direction as a social entertainment destination.
A sale or partnership are two of a number of options the company would consider for the once ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
There is a famous quote that pops up on greeting cards and says something like ''truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget''. Not any more. These days, it seems the opposite is true.
Thanks to Facebook, truly great friends are only a mouse click ...
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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Venezuela's former Miss Universe Alicia Machado closed her Twitter account after being mocked for confusing the Koreas with China.
Concerned by North Korea's artillery attack on a South Korean island, the 1996 beauty queen winner got muddled when tweeting for world peace via her @aliciamachado77 account.
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent ''one of several threats'' to the future of the world wide web, its founder, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned.
Some of its ''most successful inhabitants'', such as Facebook and big telecommunications companies, had begun to ''chip away'' at its founding principles, Sir Tim ...
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
A man who was convicted and fined for tweeting that he planned to blow up an airport will take his case to Britain's High Court in a test of the limits of free speech on the internet, his lawyers said Monday.
Attorneys for Paul Chambers said prominent human rights lawyer Ben ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
A US pastor who said Facebook was a "portal to infidelity" and told married church leaders to delete their accounts or resign once testified that he had a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant.
The Reverend Cedric Miller confirmed a report by the Asbury Park Press ...
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
Bristol Palin is apologising for herself and her younger sister for their Facebook rant against posters criticising their family.
Palin posted the apology on her Facebook page, saying she and her 16-year-old sister Willow "shouldn't have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologise."
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told a conference he made "every mistake" he could make in creating Facebook.
Mr Zuckerberg was pressed on the social network's past failings by moderator John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Facebook unveiled a new messaging platform on Monday that takes aim at one of the internet's first applications, email.
Although blogs had been speculating that Facebook would announce an email service to rival Google's Gmail and others, Facebook said email was just one component of its plans.
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