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Facebook Pulled in $800M in '09
 Facebook Pulled in $800M in '09 
Jun 18, 2010 10:28 AM CDT

Facebook Pulled in $800M in '09

Site making more money than previously believed

(Newser) - Facebook made a lot more money last year than it let on. The company’s actual revenues were close to $800 million, sources tell Reuters , which translates into tens of millions in profits. Facebook had forecast $500 million in revenue, and analysts had assumed the actual number was in that...

DJ Tweets Suicide Note
 DJ Tweets Suicide Note 
Jun 17, 2010 5:34 AM CDT

DJ Tweets Suicide Note

South Korean says farewell in under 140 characters

(Newser) - A South Korean DJ said his final farewell to the world in 140 characters or less. The family of the 27-year-old man reported him missing after he left a suicide note on Twitter, reading: "I'm going to commit suicide. To all of you, even those who shared the slightest...

AOL Unloading Bebo for Massive Loss

$850M buy being sold off at rock-bottom price

(Newser) - AOL's ride on the social networking bandwagon appears to have been a blunder costing close to a billion dollars. The company is in the final stages of making a deal to sell floundering Bebo, which it bought for $850 million in 2008, for a price thought to be in the...

MTV Seeks 'Twitter Jockey'
 MTV Seeks 'Twitter Jockey'
Jun 14, 2010 5:24 PM CDT

MTV Seeks 'Twitter Jockey'

Social network coordinator will command 6-figure salary

(Newser) - MTV is looking for its first TJ—Twitter Jockey—and is soliciting nominations for two more candidates. Much like the VJ, a position the network created some 20 years ago, the TJ will represent MTV in the domain of social networking. "The TJ will be your voice, and the...

2-Way Tweeting Helps Louisiana Monitor Spill
2-Way Tweeting Helps Louisiana Monitor Spill 
OPINION
Jun 14, 2010 4:35 PM CDT

2-Way Tweeting Helps Louisiana Monitor Spill

Emergency agency makes good use of give-and-take with followers

(Newser) - Like a lot of other government agencies, Louisiana's emergency-preparedness office uses its Twitter feed to keep citizens updated on issues like the Gulf oil spill. In a neat twist, the office is following thousands of its own followers, "something that a lot of government agencies in the emergency area...

Chatroulette's Big Problem: Genitalia

New software could scan the site for penisrs

(Newser) - You only get to make one first impression, and Chatroulette has made a pretty dirty one. The site gets up to 1 million visitors a day, but Michael Arrington notes that it may die a slow death unless it gets rid of its "parade of penises"—and unless...

Twitter Will Make You Smarter
 Twitter Will Make You Smarter 
opinion
Jun 11, 2010 12:14 PM CDT

Twitter Will Make You Smarter

Like other new media, site beefs up brain if used wisely

(Newser) - It's fashionable to cry about how Twitter and other new forms of electronic media are making us intellectually lazy and downright stupid. In fact, the opposite is true, writes Harvard's Steven Pinker. "Don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google," he writes. "It’s not as if habits...

George W. Bush Makes Facebook Debut

He's 'done with politics, but not with policy'

(Newser) - Look out, Sarah Palin: You have competition on Facebook . George W. Bush posted what he called his “inaugural address” on the site today, telling his fans and friends he’s “done with politics” but “not done with policy.” The former president gives a boilerplate rundown of...

Meet the New Islamic Facebook
Meet the New
Islamic Facebook
Jun 9, 2010 5:17 PM CDT

Meet the New Islamic Facebook

Site launches during Pakistan's ban on social networking site

(Newser) - The recent furor over a Facebook page that invited user drawings of Mohammed has spurred a Pakistani man to start an Islamic version of the social-networking site. He founded Millatfacebook.com after Facebook refused to pull the offending page and Pakistan temporarily banned the original site, the New York Daily ...

10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds
 10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds 
Jun 6, 2010 11:25 AM CDT

10 Best Fake Twitter Feeds

You don't have to be the real McCoy to be hilarious

(Newser) - If only @BPGlobalPR were the real deal: The spoof account is far more entertaining than BP's actual one (find a clear demonstration of that here ). Time's Newsfeed shares 9 more spectacular, satirical Twitter feeds, with sample tweets:
  1. @FakeAP Stylebook : "'horrible tragedy'—use this phrasing to differentiate the described
...

China Blocks Foursquare Over Tiananmen

Too many people were posting on the anniversary

(Newser) - This time, it's Foursquare that's earned the wrath of Beijing. The location-based social networking site is blocked throughout China, reports TechBlog86 . Of course, there's no official word from Chinese authorities, but the move came after scores of people virtually checked in to Tiananmen Square to mark yesterday's 21st anniversary and...

Facebook 'Clickjacking' Attacks Persist

This time, Justin Beiber's the bait

(Newser) - Eager to see that Justin Bieber page your friends "liked?" You may want to resist the urge to click, say security experts. Facebook has been hit by a fresh round of fast-spreading "clickjacking" attacks that trick users—by means of an invisible page placed over one saying "...

Facebook Newbie: George W. Bush

Well, sort of

(Newser) - Facebook sure has changed since its inception as a college-only online hangout—first your parents joined, and now even George W. Bush has a page up . The profile is hardly personal—Laura Bush isn't even mentioned under "relationship status," Politico notes—and it's full of links to pre-order...

Facebook Friends: How Many Is Too Many?

Even the social network says to can it at 5K

(Newser) - Sure, you get by with a little help from your friends, but in the überfriendly world of Facebook, how many is too many? One professor sets the number of meaningful relationships one can handle at 150, and even Facebook itself will cut you off at the you-can't-possibly-know-all-these-people number of...

Skinbook: Facebook for Nudists

It's not as X-rated as it sounds

(Newser) - If your privacy beef with Facebook is that it doesn't have enough private parts, Skinbook may be the site for you. Billing itself as the web's only true nudist social network, the UK-based site has some rules: No pornographic photos, torso-only images, or dirty comments. But for the rules to...

Facebook Privacy Changes a Good First Step

New settings seem relatively easy to control

(Newser) - Facebook's unveiling of changes to give users more control over privacy (details from Mark Zuckerberg here ) is getting a decent reception on the tech blogs. Here's a sample:
  • Kevin Bankston, Electronic Frontier Foundation : They reverse "some of the worst of Facebook's privacy missteps," but "we still
...

FarmVille, Mafia Wars Coming to Yahoo

Virtual worlds get a huge new userbase

(Newser) - Fans of FarmVille and Mafia Wars will soon have a huge new virtual world to conquer. Zynga, creator of the Facebook sensations, has struck a deal to make the games available on Yahoo's homepage and games section, reports Mashable . That will give Zynga a new potential userbase of about 600...

Hey, Facebookers: There's No Free Lunch
 Hey, Facebookers: 
 There's No Free Lunch 
OPINION
May 26, 2010 8:43 AM CDT

Hey, Facebookers: There's No Free Lunch

Pssst: Company's in it for the money

(Newser) - Facebook's a for-profit company, not a public service, so Patt Morrison at the Los Angeles Times can't understand why so many users are angry and hurt about the site trying to make money from harvested private information. "Did anyone really think Facebook was in this for the cozy 'Kumbayah'...

Zuckerberg: OK, OK, We're Fixing It
Zuckerberg:
OK, OK, We're Fixing It
May 24, 2010 10:33 AM CDT

Zuckerberg: OK, OK, We're Fixing It

Facebook to simplify privacy settings, founder promises

(Newser) - Facebook has heard your cries, and plans to clean up its complex privacy settings , founder Mark Zuckerberg declares in a mea culpa in today's Washington Post . “Sometimes, we move too fast,” he admits. “Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not...

Upstarts Milk Facebook Privacy Rage
Upstarts Milk Facebook Privacy Rage
May 24, 2010 9:20 AM CDT

Upstarts Milk Facebook Privacy Rage

It's a great time to run a tiny social networking startup

(Newser) - Facebook may stride like a Goliath over the social networking marketplace, but there's a bunch of Davids readying their slingshots, hoping that the behemoth's latest privacy controversy has left users ready to jump ship. “A year ago, nobody was interested in my project,” the developer of Appleseed, an...

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