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February 2008
- Web Connects Mourning NIU Students
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Feb 15, 08 1:21 PM CST
  
  With cellphone lines on much of the campus jammed, Northern Illinois University students turned to the Internet to let friends and loved ones know they had survived yesterday’s shooting and to console each other, the Chicago Tribune reports. Most logged on to Facebook, where 10,000 joined a prayer group, while others updated status messages to proclaim themselves unharmed. More »
- This Way Out? Not Really
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 11, 08 11:35 AM CST
  
  Just when you think you're out, Facebook pulls you back in, say wannabe ex-users who have tried in vain to delete their profiles. The site keeps archives of all profiles, unless they're manually deleted piece by piece, fanning privacy concerns already stoked by the Beacon fiasco. “It’s like the Hotel California,” one unwilling member told the New York Times . “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” More »
- MySpace Opens Doors to Developers
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 5, 08 9:58 AM CST
  
  MySpace members already customize personal profile pages, but they’ll soon be able to add applications like photo albums, email, and calendars. The News Corp. property plans to open its platform and release developer tools, reports the New York Times. Third-party developers will be allowed to create and make money from programs that can sit on personal home pages. More »
- Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Feb 3, 08 6:50 PM CST
  
  Most blog posts, Flickr pics, and YouTube vids are junk, a Los Angeles Times blogger laments, but Facebook has drummed up a cyberspace winner called Graffiti. The online painting tool has had more than 8 million users and sparked fine submissions in Dell’s “ReGeneration Contest," which asks artists to "explain what green means to you." More »
- Zuckerberg Spills the Beans About Facebook Finances
  
  newser | All Things Digital | Feb 1, 08 12:12 PM CST
  
  Mark Zuckerberg got talkative with the Facebook staff yesterday. The boy CEO shared intimate details of the privately-owned company’s finances to an all-staff meeting with an open phone-in line—“It was really unbelievable,” marveled one. The numbers indicated a fall from break-even grace for the company in 2008, when it will have a negative cash flow of $150 million, reports All Things Digital. More »
January 2008
- MySpace to Open Platform to Developers
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 30, 08 1:00 PM CST
  
  Following the lead of rival Facebook, social networking giant MySpace will launch the MySpace Developer Platform next week, giving programmers deeper access to its site--possibly including the ability to tap into MySpace user data, AP reports. MySpace already informally allows programmers to develop widgets for it, and hopes the new platform will help developers make more money through the site. More »
- Sex Convicts May Face Internet Ban
  
  newser | CNET | Jan 29, 08 6:45 PM CST
  
  New York's 25,000 convicted sex criminals will be banned from Facebook and MySpace if a bill unveiled today becomes law, CNET reports. Dubbed E-Stop, the legislation requires sex convicts to submit online identities and screen names so participating sites can block them. Those who committed a sex crime over the Internet would have usage controlled by the state's parole board. More »
- From Clerk to Rogue Trader to Facebook Laughingstock
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 25, 08 11:14 AM CST
  
  You don’t need a fancy education to lose $7.2 billion and become an Internet laughingstock. In the clubby world of French banking, Société Générale traders are usually the Gallic equivalent of Ivy League MBAs, but Jérôme Kerviel, a lowly biz school grad, worked his way up from shy clerk to secretive junior trader, the New York Times reports. Clearly, this man deserves the Nobel Prize for Economics. More »
- Tonight May Be Game Over for Scrabulous
  
  newser | TechCrunch | Jan 22, 08 2:44 PM CST
  
  Scrabulous—the wildly popular Facebook app based (without permission) on Scrabble—may have to fold up its board tonight. Hasbro and Mattel, which jointly own the rights to the board game, have set the deadline for the online game to either shut itself down or sell itself to Electronic Arts, which owns the online rights. More »
- Is MySpace Murdoch's Top Investment?
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 21, 08 3:21 PM CST
  
  Two years after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought MySpace, and shortly after its two founders signed up for another couple of fabulously well-paid years at the helm, the site is expanding and evolving. Despite challenges (read: Facebook), MySpace represents an impressive return for Murdoch. “He may find that this is the single best investment he has ever made,” Google’s CEO told the New York Times . More »
- Jamba Founders Buy Stake In Facebook
  
  newser | TechCrunch | Jan 16, 08 12:29 AM CST
  
  Brothers Alexander, Marc and Oliver Samwer, founders of ring tone company Jamba, have just joined Microsoft and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing as major investors in US based social networking company Facebook. Though the Samwers' haven't disclosed the exact size of their investment, they told Der Spiegel it was "significant," but smaller than Microsoft's $240 million. More »
- Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 14, 08 2:52 PM CST
  
  With Google, Facebook, and MySpace gnawing at its top-dog status, Yahoo is reinventing some foundation applications to make them appeal to a new generation of users, reports the New York Times . First step? Turbocharging Yahoo Mail to make it more a communications hub and less a post office, a prototype Yahoo demo'd at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. More »
- Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone
  
  newser | Fortune Magazine | Jan 12, 08 6:00 AM CST
  
  Hasbro, maker of the classic board game Scrabble, is moving to shut down Scrabulous, a widely popular—and virtually identical—online knockoff. It's currently the ninth most popular application on all of Facebook, with 2.3 million users. Scrabulous’ developers estimate their app brings in about $25,000 a month, about which Hasbro is none too pleased. More »
- Colleges Turn to New Media to Recruit Students
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jan 7, 08 4:35 PM CST
  
  If MySpace and Facebook are where the high school kids are, then that’s where college recruiters are headed. Schools competing for today’s tech-savvy teens are reaching out to them through podcasts, online videos, virtual campus tours, live chats, blogs, and social networking profiles, reports the Boston Globe —and those stuffy old admissions officers are increasingly in touch with prospectives via IM and text. More »
- Facebook Hoaxer Part of Plot to Smear Bilawal: Dad
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 3, 08 5:41 AM CST
  
  Several news editors and internet surfers fell hook, line and sinker for a Facebook hoaxer pretending to be Benazir Bhutto's son and political heir—and an aide for his dad charged that it was part of a smear campaign by the Pakistani government. The fake Facebook site has 19-year-old Bilawal confessing he is "not a born leader" and is a big fan of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." More »
December 2007
- Facebook Sneaks Up on BlackBerry Users
  
  newser | San Jose Mercury News | Dec 26, 07 5:03 PM CST
  
  BlackBerry owners may have noticed a new icon appearing on their devices in the past week: a link to Facebook. Some T-Mobile smartphones are getting the icons whether or not customers want them. Facebook spokespeople say users can still decide whether to download the software, but to privacy groups the unwanted icons spell intrusion, reports the San Jose Mercury News. More »
- Campaign for Young Voters: Vote 4 Me! Pls?
  
  newser | McClatchy Newspapers | Dec 24, 07 10:17 AM CST
  
  New technology has given presidential hopefuls a host of new ways to transmit the "Vote For Me" message, McClatchy reports. Campaigners are using social networking sites, YouTube videos, instant messaging, and even text messaging in a bid to gain an edge with young voters. But their target audience seems more bemused by it all than fired up with campaign fever. More »
- Scrabble Players Flock to Facebook
  
  newser | New York Times | Dec 17, 07 12:21 PM CST
  
  The hottest application on Facebook these days is Scrabulous, based on the Hasbro boardgame. Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, a young brother duo from Calcutta, developed an online version of Scrabble in 2005. They put it on Facebook in June in the hopes of targeting 0.01% of the website's citizenry, but now it's got over half a million daily users. More »
- Let Facebook Ring from the Ivory Tower
  
  newser | Washington Post | Dec 16, 07 12:11 PM CST
  
  Move over, preening teenagers: byte-thirsty academics are now frequenting social networking hangouts like Facebook and MySpace. Hoping to snatch a dissertation out of the latest digital craze, plus a side of fame, they’ll all have to line up behind danah boyd (small caps intended), a Berkeley PhD candidate who’s become a “celebrademic” with her insight on social networking and its effects. More »
- Being a Tech CEO Means Having to Say You're Sorry
  
  newser | Forbes | Dec 14, 07 6:02 PM CST
  
  Saying "sorry" has become a necessary skill for tech execs, Forbes reports—from AMD's CEO, who apologized yesterday for delaying its latest chip launch, to Facebook's founder, who begged forgiveness after an advertising program violated users' privacy. The frequency of technology leaders' public contrition testifies to the power of the Internet to amplify consumer discontent—and force companies to listen. More »

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Twin brothers Cameron, left, and Tyler Winklevoss, founders of ConnectU, talk with reporters following a news conference in Boston, Wednesday, July 25, 2007. A federal judge gave the brothers and Divya... (Associated Press)

ConnectU founders Tyler Winklevoss, left, and Cameron Winklevoss, right, who are twin brothers, and Divya Narendra pose following a news conference in Boston, Wednesday, July 25, 2007. A federal judge... (Associated Press)

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