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Obama Checks In on Foursquare

Prez becomes highest-profile user of social networking site

(Newser) - The White House has signed up on Foursquare, just in time for President Obama's bus tour of Midwestern states , reports Mashabl e. The White House says the president will be regularly checking in, "and now you’ll be able to discover 'tips' from the White House featuring...

UK Teen Charged With Inciting Riots Via BlackBerry

Police say she texted friends to join the looting

(Newser) - Among the approximately 700 people facing charges in the aftermath of the London riots is an 18-year-old accused of using her BlackBerry to incite violence. The teen allegedly used the Blackberry Messenger IM service to encourage friends to join in on the looting on Aug. 8, reports the Telegraph . An...

Why One Guy Lets Anyone Use His Starbucks Card

Inside Jonathan Stark's social experiment

(Newser) - Need a pick-me-up but can't afford a dose of caffeine at your local Starbucks? Jonathan Stark can help. The mobile applications consultant is currently running a social sharing experiment—he's letting people use his Starbucks card to buy coffee, at no cost to them. Stark hit on the...

Law Bars Kid-Teacher Facebooking, Row Erupts

Missouri passes first major social media speech restriction

(Newser) - Missouri has passed a law barring private Facebook messages between children and teachers, and lots of people aren't happy about it. The first law of its kind in the nation will still allow messages easily viewed by the school community between teachers and children concerning assignments, but all exclusive...

Randi Zuckerberg Quits Facebook to Launch Biz

Zuckerberg big sis is starting own social media firm

(Newser) - Randi Zuckerberg is leaving her little brother's business to start up her own. The 29-year-old director of marketing at Facebook is launching a firm that will help companies operate and better utilize their social media presence, reports the Los Angeles Times . Zuckerberg, who has been with Facebook since 2005,...

Why I Celebrated My &#39;Facebook Birthday&#39; 3 Times
Why I Celebrated My 'Facebook Birthday' 3 Times
david plotz
Aug 2, 2011 12:23 PM CDT

Why I Celebrated My 'Facebook Birthday' 3 Times

Experiment proved greetings are fake: David Plotz

(Newser) - Nothing illustrates the "fakery" of Facebook and its so-called friendships quite as much as the "Facebook Birthday," that one day each year when you are bombarded by "exclamation-point-polluted" Wall posts from people you barely know. That's why Slate's David Plotz decided to engage in...

Newt Bought His Twitter Following: Ex-Staffer

Most of Gingrich's 1.3M followers are fake, former staffer says

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich might be way behind in the GOP polls, but he's kicking butt on Twitter—with 1.3 million followers to the fewer than 70,000 Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann each claim. A former staffer says the reason for the discrepancy is simple: The Gingrich campaign has...

Google+ Visits Down 3% ... Already

Time spent on the site also takes a hit

(Newser) - Less than a month after its big launch, Google+ has hit its first minus: Usage declined 3% to 1.79 million visits last week, reports Bloomberg . What's more, time spent on the new social media site dropped 10%, falling to 5 minutes to 15 seconds. It's important to...

Show-Off Mistress Tips Chinese to Red Cross Graft

Charity accused of embezzling public donations

(Newser) - One young woman's online boasting will likely derail the gravy train for a lot of people involved with the Red Cross Society of China. After the 20-year-old vamp's posts on China's equivalent of Twitter showed her with luxury cars and designer goods and identified her as a...

Justin Timberlake, Ad Group Buy MySpace for $35M

News Corp takes massive loss on social networking also-ran

(Newser) - The hottest website of 2006 now belongs in part to one of that year's hottest stars. Justin Timberlake has teamed up with digital advertising agency Specific Media to take MySpace off the hands of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, reports the Telegraph . Insiders say the fallen giant of social...

Zynga Looks for $2B IPO
 Zynga Looks for $2B IPO 
Jun 29, 2011 8:50 AM CDT

Zynga Looks for $2B IPO

Would value FarmVille creator at $20B

(Newser) - Zynga, the gaming company behind such Facebook behemoths as FarmVille and CityVille, is poised for an IPO that could raise as much as $2 billion—which would turn it into a $20 billion company, reports Reuters . Analysts expect Zynga, with 215 million active monthly users, to file its paperwork today...

Even MySpace Founders No Longer Using Site

Site's decline blamed in part on Rupert Murdoch's loss of interest

(Newser) - MySpace has fallen so far that its own founders no longer bother updating their profiles, BusinessWeek finds in a detailed look at the rapid decline of the former juggernaut of social networking. Former CEO Chris DeWolfe, who founded the company with Tom Anderson in 2003, says he cringes on the...

As Belarus Cracks Down, Protesters Stomp, Chant

Clapping, stomping to protest authoritarian gov't

(Newser) - For the third Wednesday in a row, clapping and stomping demonstrators across Belarus yesterday turned out to protest their country's economic crisis and the iron fist of longtime President Alexander Lukashenko, reports the AP . The government has in turn banned all such rallies, using state security forces to break...

Vancouver Cops Turn to Facebook to ID Rioters

'Let's label these losers,' Facebook group asks

(Newser) - Vancouver police trying to track down the people who trashed their city have a powerful tool on their side that wasn't around during the 1994 Stanley Cup riot. A Facebook group set up within minutes of the trouble beginning encourages people to help police by posting their pictures of...

Juror Faces Jail for Friending Defendant

Woman guilty in UK's first contempt of court case involving Internet

(Newser) - A British juror who took empathy for the defendant a little too far may be going to jail for contempt of court. Joanna Fraill used Facebook to find and befriend a woman she had helped acquit on drug charges. Before the jury had reached a verdict on other defendants, the...

Cops: Philly Mom Hires Hit Man on Facebook

Pair arrested after 'friend' calls cops

(Newser) - Move over, boasting bank robbers —some new contenders for stupidest Facebook criminals have arrived. Police say Philadelphia mother Eley London, 20, sought and found a hit man on Facebook after an argument with her ex-boyfriend, reports the New York Daily News . "I will pay somebody a stack to...

Iceland Lets Facebook Fans Help Write New Constitution

Highly-wired country crowdsources new document

(Newser) - The council drafting Iceland’s new constitution is out to bring new meaning to the term “by the people.” They’re essentially crowdsourcing the document, the Guardian reports, using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to solicit ideas and get feedback from citizens. “I believe this...

Eric Schmidt: Google Really 'Screwed Up' on Social Media

At All Things Digital conference, he talks about missing out on social media

(Newser) - Eric Schmidt didn’t mince words at the D9: All Things Digital conference yesterday, admitting that Google “screwed up” at times during its early social media efforts. Missing out on “the friend thing” and true social functionality was one of his biggest failures, Schmidt admitted during his keynote...

Zuckerberg Wants Under-13s on Facebook

Educational benefits mean age limit should be lifted, founder says

(Newser) - Pre-teens have a lot to gain from social media sites, says Mark Zuckerberg, and he tells an education summit that he'd like under-13s to be able to use Facebook. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act bans websites that collect information about users from signing up users under 13,...

Twitter Snaps Up TweetDeck
 Twitter Snaps Up TweetDeck 
May 25, 2011 1:19 AM CDT

Twitter Snaps Up TweetDeck

Leading 3rd-party app now part of company

(Newser) - Twitter has snapped up popular third-party application TweetDeck, ending months of speculation about a possible deal. The acquisition—for some $40 million in cash and stock, according to CNN —is in line with Twitter's recent moves to regain control of its ecosystem and provide a more uniform experience...

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