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Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy
Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy
Feb 3, 2008 6:50 PM CST

Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy

Dell's "ReGeneration" contest sparks Graffiti users to post green art

(Newser) - 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...

Zuckerberg Spills the Beans About Facebook Finances

CEO's chattiness at staff meeting leaked

(Newser) - 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...

Focus on Youth Benefits Obama
Focus on Youth Benefits Obama
Feb 1, 2008 11:04 AM CST

Focus on Youth Benefits Obama

Campaign makes young people a priority, using net to organize

(Newser) - The youth vote is back, and that’s a very good thing for Barack Obama. Young people are voting in numbers not seen in decades, and they prefer Obama by an astounding margin. In Iowa, under-25 turnout was up 135%, and those voters favored Obama 4 to 1. And the...

MySpace to Open Platform to Developers

Hopes to reap same benefit Facebook has--without the Scrabulous headache

(Newser) - 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...

Sex Convicts May Face Internet Ban
Sex Convicts May Face Internet Ban
Jan 29, 2008 6:45 PM CST

Sex Convicts May Face Internet Ban

NY bill aims to keep 25K offenders off social websites

(Newser) - 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...

From Clerk to Rogue Trader to Facebook Laughingstock

SocGen fraudster's woes include poking

(Newser) - 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...

Tonight May Be Game Over for Scrabulous

Creators scramble to make a deal as deadline looms

(Newser) - 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,...

Humanitarian Relief is a Text Message Away

Social sites like Twitter, Facebook part of Google's new venture

(Newser) - A Google-funded website that uses technology to spread the word about emergencies launches today, CNET reports. The company's charitable arm has put $5 million into InSTEDD, which will use social software like Twitter and Facebook to alert humanitarian groups to crises and organize rescue operations. “Social networking in the...

Jamba Founders Buy Stake In Facebook
Jamba Founders Buy Stake In Facebook
Jan 16, 2008 12:29 AM CST

Jamba Founders Buy Stake In Facebook

Samwer brothers join Microsoft in social networking venture

(Newser) - 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...

MySpace Adds Anti-Predator Measures
MySpace Adds Anti-Predator Measures
Jan 14, 2008 7:18 PM CST

MySpace Adds Anti-Predator Measures

Networking site reaches agreement with states to protect teens

(Newser) - MySpace will add protections to prevent abuse by sexual predators, officials of several states said today. The social networking company reached an agreement with 49 states over concerns about predators contacting children through its popular site. MySpace will also join a working group aimed at developing new technologies, such as...

Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown

Portal eyes overhaul to preserve slipping top-dog status

(Newser) - 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...

Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone

'Scrabulous' application wildly popular on Facebook

(Newser) - 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,...

MySpace Launches Celeb Portal
MySpace Launches Celeb Portal
Jan 10, 2008 9:57 AM CST

MySpace Launches Celeb Portal

New section will offer celebrity profiles, news, and gossip

(Newser) - MySpace is rolling out a new section today dedicated to celebrity news and personalities, CNET reports. “MySpace Celebrity” will provide entertainment news, celebrity profiles, and gossip from People magazine, as well as video content. It will also index official celebrity MySpace profiles—which numbered more than 300 at launch.

Facebook Hoaxer Part of Plot to Smear Bilawal: Dad

Heir loves vampire slayer Buffy on fake site

(Newser) - 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...

Widget Mania on the Rise
Widget Mania
on the Rise
Jan 2, 2008 9:26 PM CST

Widget Mania on the Rise

Tiny software apps boost site traffic and ad revenue

(Newser) - Since Facebook created an open platform for software developers last May, widgets have won the love of consumers, social networking sites, and even more traditional corporate websites, Forbes reports. Facebook users alone have installed the miniscule applications—allowing them to share music or have zombie fights—more than 765 million...

Cell Phone Ads Slowed by Privacy Worries

Carriers love targeted marketing, but are afraid to tick you off

(Newser) - With the mobile Internet and GPS location-based services expanding, marketers and mobile phone companies are anxious to tap into a new level of targeted advertising. But, the AP reports, carriers are proceeding with caution in implementing the ads because they don’t want the perception of a privacy invasion to...

New Web Trend Sparks David vs. Goliath 2.0

Web giants mobilize to stop developers from 'scraping' their content

(Newser) - Some call it “scraping,” others call it “importing.” Either way, it’s a controversial process pitting independent software developers against the titans of the cyber world: Techies compile, or scrape, loads of data from search engines and social networking sites and pool the data on their...

Facebook Sneaks Up on BlackBerry Users

Privacy advocates wary of site's new icons

(Newser) - 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...

MySpace Battles Facebook Buzz to Stay on Top

Site rolls out new services, expands abroad

(Newser) - Facing competition for buzz and advertising from much smaller but much-hyped Facebook, MySpace has big plans for expansion. The free-form social networking site's founders want to transform it into a one-stop portal where users can check email and get news. The site is also unveiling new services, expanding overseas, and...

Gay Plays Well for Maverick VC
Gay Plays
Well for Maverick VC
Dec 20, 2007 12:18 PM CST

Gay Plays Well for Maverick VC

So says Valleywag about contrarian PayPal founder Thiel

(Newser) - In Silicon Valley, where "like funds like," Valleywag thinks it's important to note that Peter Thiel, "the smartest VC in the world, is gay." Why mention it? Thiel's Founders Fund, which just raised a $220 million financing round, could reinvent the way entrepreneurs get paid, and...

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