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December 2007
- Classmates.com Fails to Score IPO
  
  newser | Wired | Dec 13, 07 1:07 AM CST
  
  Classmates.com received an early dismissal today after its owners withdrew a planned IPO for the social networking site. United Online cited turbulent market conditions, but analysts say the real reason is waning popularity of the site and its overpriced offering. The interest in IPOs is there, one analyst explained, “but Classmates.com certainly is not the crown beauty of the space.” More »
- Facebook CEO Apologizes for Ad System
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Dec 5, 07 5:07 PM CST
  
  Facebook CEO's apologized today for the company's new advertising system and told users they can disable it, the Wall Street Journal reports. The system, which tracks users' web activities, raised a firestorm of complaints over privacy concerns. "We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them," Mark Zuckerberg wrote on the company's blog. More »
- Beacon Does Track Users Who Log Off: Facebook
  
  newser | PC World | Dec 3, 07 8:21 PM CST
  
  Facebook has admitted that its Beacon ad system is tracking users even when they've logged off the site, PC World reports. Even those who opt out of the system that broadcasts activities to friends are being monitored. The company's email announcement reverses earlier denials and will likely stoke criticisms of the system by privacy advocates. More »
- Facebook Court Defeat May Presage a Fall
  
  newser | All Things Digital | Dec 2, 07 1:38 PM CST
  
  Facebook has been handed a defeat in its attempts to censor the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 , which published confidential court documents relating to founder Mark Zuckerberg's earlier work for a rival site. That's a good thing, says Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal , for whom the attempted injunction was "essentially a legal temper tantrum." More »
November 2007
- Facebook Backs Off Beacon
  
  newser | Washington Post | Nov 30, 07 6:36 AM CST
  
  Facebook has watered down its unpopular Beacon ad platform, which "shared" information about users' online shopping habits with everyone in their Facebook network—without their permission. Now, instead of making users opt out every time they make a purchase if they don't want it to be broadcast, Facebook will only broadcast the transaction if user click "ok." More »
- Backlash Forces Facebook to Retool Beacon
  
  newser | BusinessWeek | Nov 29, 07 7:54 AM CST
  
  Facebook execs are pondering changes to the unpopular Beacon advertising platform after massively negative feedback, reports Business Week, and an announcement on "evolving" it could come as soon as today. Users are threatening mutiny over the tool, less than a month old, that tells their friends all about their purchases from other sites—a service many view as an invasion of privacy. More »
- Privacy, Shmivacy: Facebook Is Doomed
  
  newser | InformationWeek | Nov 27, 07 10:05 AM CST
  
  Aggressive new advertising tactics make Facebook look more evil by the day, but don’t worry, InformationWeek columnist Cory Doctorow writes, because it’s doomed anyway. Sure social networks are “pure crack” for some, but sooner or later everyone gets friended by someone they’d rather avoid, and eventually that awkwardness is too much to bear. More »
- Facebook Feud Heats Up
  
  newser | 02138 | Nov 27, 07 8:59 AM CST
  
  Three former Harvard students who are suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea are finally about to get their day in court, reports the indy Harvard alumni magazine 02138 . Forensic data experts are searching Zuckerberg’s computer hard drives, searching for source code, which the company claims is lost, that would confirm or deny intellectual property theft. More »
- Networking Teens Risk Identity Theft
  
  newser | Independent (UK) | Nov 23, 07 6:45 PM CST
  
  Millions of young users of social networking sites are risking identity theft because of information shared online, warns a UK study reported in the Independent today. Britain's privacy watchdog concludes that 4.5 million web users from 14 to 21 years old could be vulnerable to identity fraud, and young users posting personal information on sites also risk damaging educational and business prospects. More »
- Wiki Founder May Take on Facebook
  
  newser | Wired | Nov 17, 07 9:13 AM CST
  
  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is apparently going after Facebook and Google in the social-networking arena, Wired reports. Wales showed slides of his upcoming project during a speech in South Africa, and a tech blogger on hand described it as a "search/social networking hybrid" that incorporates elements of both internet powerhouses. More »
- New VC Fund Wants Only Facebook Apps
  
  newser | MarketWatch | Nov 14, 07 12:26 PM CST
  
  Venture capitalist Lee Lorenzen is so enamored of Facebook that he started an investment fund just to finance developers creating applications for the social network site. Not only is Lorenzen investing in a month-and-a-half-old industry, last month at a conference he said Facebook might be worth $100 billion, more than six times the $15 billion valuation that came with Microsoft's purchase of a 1.6% stake. More »
- Imagining a Facebook Search Engine to Rival Google
  
  newser | VentureBeat | Nov 12, 07 10:19 AM CST
  
  With a new option allowing users to search for advertising pages, Facebook has crept another step closer to a search engine. Will the social networking site take the ultimate plunge in its battle against Google and roll out a full-fledged search engine? VentureBeat 's Doug Sherret explores how this engine would look and how it could succeed. More »
- Ads Could Spark Privacy Lawsuits by Facebook Users
  
  newser | New York Times | Nov 9, 07 3:20 AM CST
  
  Facebook's new cutting-edge ads which cherry-pick the names and faces of members who use featured products may violate privacy laws. The ads attach photos and identities of members to products they've purchased or endorsed, but without explicitly obtaining members' consent, reports the New York Times . That could open Facebook to invasion of privacy lawsuits. More »
- Facebook Ad Plans Raise Privacy Issues
  
  newser | Valleywag | Nov 7, 07 12:49 PM CST
  
  As the advertising industry prepares to harness the personal data of 50 million Facebook users, new privacy concerns are whipping through cyberspace. Valleywag reveals that Facebook employees not only have access to users' profiles and inboxes, but can alter them. And they do—frequently enough that management had to tell developers to "knock it off." More »
- Targeted Ads Come to Facebook
  
  newser | CNET | Nov 6, 07 6:49 PM CST
  
  Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new ad-selling strategy today that will allow companies to create their own pages on the social networking site and zero in on customers based on their profiles. Users can sign up with advertisers they like and share information about them in their network. Advertisers also will get detailed information about the people who see their ads to hone their marketing. More »
- 'Old Farts' Invade Facebook
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Nov 3, 07 1:00 PM CDT
  
  Facebook has matured from an e-frat house where co-eds post pics of their hedonistic exploits to a cyber-cocktail party where the well-heeled gather to display baby pictures and taunt each other like, well, school kids. “I am so telling Rupert,” a columnist teases the Journal’s Matthew Rose, after discovering Mr. Murdoch’s future employee playing Scrabble on the site. More »
- Facebook to Join Google's 'OpenSocial' Alliance?
  
  newser | Fortune Magazine | Nov 2, 07 4:49 PM CDT
  
  The day after MySpace announced it was joining a Google-led alliance meant to let applications written for one social networking site be used on others, it looks like lone outsider Facebook could join up, too. That's according to Fortune Magazine , which reported that Facebook and Google representatives met yesterday and that a board member said Facebook is open to the OpenSocial standard. More »
- MySpace May Join Google Social Project
  
  newser | CNET | Nov 1, 07 3:04 PM CDT
  
  Tech bloggers are buzzing about a rumored partnership between MySpace and Google’s about-to-be-launched OpenSocial project; a big reveal may come as soon as today. Though it still leads Facebook in membership and traffic, the social networker has lost much of its spotlight recently—and CNet’s Caroline McCarthy says the deal is likely a good move for MySpace owner News Corp. More »
October 2007
- Google Out to Smite Facebook Software Platform
  
  newser | New York Times | Oct 31, 07 11:56 AM CDT
  
  Google couldn't buy a piece of Facebook, so it's going after the social networking site's software platform instead. Tomorrow a Google-led alliance will introduce a common platform for software developers to write programs for Google's social site, Orkut, along with LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo, Ning and others. The hope is to one-up Facebook, the New York Times reports. More »
- Meebo Joins Facebook as Platform
  
  newser | Fortune Magazine | Oct 31, 07 4:34 AM CDT
  
  Meebo, an instant-messenger startup, is following in the footsteps of Facebook by allowing certain hand-selected developers to create new widgets for its pages. Unlike Facebook, however, it plans to lure developers by offering them half the revenue gained from the features they create and will sell the ads itself, instead of leaving the task to the more code-oriented developers. 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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The August, 20-27 double issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, August 13), "The Facebook Effect" looks at how Facebook, the wildly popular networking site is growing up and facing new challenges to... (Associated Press)

d. The three founders of ConnectU say Zuckerberg agreed to finish computer code for their site, but repeatedly stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, FILE) (Associated Press)

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