Outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour blasted Google Buzz during the agency’s privacy workshop March 17. The FTC should stop imploring and start pushing policies and privacy controls into legislation.
A new feature popped up on the profiles for members of the social networking site, Facebook. Under each user’s profile picture, the usual link to see pictures and videos remains, but a new set of links is available as well. The first says “View QR Barcode” and the second “Generate status QR Barcode”.
Social networking site, Classmates.com, is once again accused of misleading consumers.
At a time when Classmates.com and parent company United Online, are already mixed up in a congressional investigation, Classmates.com is attempting to settle a lawsuit which accused the company of sending e-mails that duped users into believing the messages had come from old high school [...]
Facebook thumped it, and Twitter threatens it as a source for entertainment news and real-time searches.
But MySpace, nestled in the entertainment capital of the world, thinks it can survive — even thrive — as a repository for all things music, Avatar and Twilight for the under-35 crowd.
The world’s largest social network has thrown down the gauntlet to game developers to design an iconic social game like Mario or Halo for Facebook.
Research suggests around three quarters of Facebook’s 400m users play social games on the site.
iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you spontaneously shoot video wherever you are. And that’s just the beginning. It has a dramatic, polished anodized aluminum finish and a larger screen. The new Genius Mixes feature acts as your personal DJ, automatically searching your iTunes library, then making mixes you’ll love. Take [...]
The first of Nokia’s Cseries handset comes with integrated support for Facebook in the address book, and support for e-mail and instant messaging.
Google Buzz is not intended as a challenge to Facebook or Twitter, but as a unique complement to those Web services, the Google executive overseeing Buzz told eWEEK.
Facebook users have been complaining about problems at the social media site.
Users in the U.S. and other countries reported problems lasting at least half an hour on Saturday morning. Some could not log in, and the site was unusually slow for others. Many used Twitter to complain.
SOCIAL NOTWORKING SERVICES Facebook and Google Buzz are being hauled up before the beak by privacy critics.
