Archive for December, 2010
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Facebook is challenging Google's supremacy on the internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online.
While Google delivers search results selected by algorithms that take into account a user's web history, Facebook boasts a richer level of personalisation based on one's own "likes" and ...
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
With social networking letting us follow our friends' every move, do we still need an annual Christmas summary?
Remember the family Christmas letter? The annual newsletter you'd receive from family and friends, letting you know what they've been doing during the year. They mostly seem to focus on what the children ...
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow newspaper controlled by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and billionaire Alexander Lebedev, said it agreed to join forces with WikiLeaks to expose corruption in Russia.
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes secret government and corporate documents online, has materials specifically about Russia that haven't been published ...
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
A man was forced to flee his home in terror after he was wrongly named on Facebook as a wanted serial killer in the United States.
A vigilante group posted the man's name and photograph on Facebook and labelled him the "Kensington Strangler", who is wanted in connection with at least ...
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
BEIJING: ''It was just two nerds comparing notes,'' the spokesman said. ''Keep the speculation in check.'' But when those nerds happened to be the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and Robin Li, the head of Baidu, the biggest search engine in China, there was no way a quiet business ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
Twitter has been involved in several of the biggest - and silliest - news stories of the year, both in the ''celebrisphere'' and in the real world. The earliest reports and photos of the devastating Haitian quake came via Twitter, while events such as the FIFA World Cup represented the ...
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Sunday, December 19th, 2010
One way and another, it's official: this is the age of no secrets, in personal life or in government, as WikiLeaks continues to prove.
Mark Zuckerberg, inventor and chief executive of Facebook, is Time's Person of the Year and is the anti-hero of what may be an Oscar-winning movie, The Social ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Passwords plundered from gossip website Gawker were evidently used by hackers to flood micro-blogging service Twitter with booby-trapped spam about Acai berries.
Twitter users were being warned not to click on any of myriad "tweeted" links to websites promising information about Acai.
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
A Facebook intern interested in seeing how political borders affect friendships around the globe has created a map of the world by sampling data from the social network's 500 million user base.
The map displays friendships as lights on a deep blue background. The eastern half of the United States and ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Paedophiles are brazenly sharing child pornography pictures and videos on Facebook, and internet safety experts believe the social networking site has failed to curtail the practice.
In an investigation, this website established that there are countless profiles and groups created by paedophiles – sometimes using their real names – who publish ...
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