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Sex Offender Held in UK Facebook Murder

32-year-old posed as teenager, led police to body

(Newser) - British police are holding a convicted sex offender after he confessed to murdering a 17-year-old girl he met on Facebook, posing as a fellow teenager. The 32-year-old blurted out "I've killed a girl" after being picked up for a car insurance violation. He then led police to a field...

Rivals No More, Facebook and MySpace Talk Content
Rivals No More, Facebook and MySpace Talk Content
analysis
Oct 26, 2009 10:07 PM CDT

Rivals No More, Facebook and MySpace Talk Content

MySpace can provide it, and Facebook is the platform

(Newser) - High-ranking executives at both Facebook and MySpace confirm that the companies are in talks over some sort of content partnership—a development that isn’t a big surprise to at least one observer. Formerly intense competitors in the social-networking sphere, Caroline McCarthy writes, now “Facebook’s the one providing...

Legions Gripe About Latest Facebook Revamp
Legions Gripe About Latest Facebook Revamp
inter-not
Oct 26, 2009 12:20 PM CDT

Legions Gripe About Latest Facebook Revamp

New 'Live Feed' not a hit with users

(Newser) - Facebook’s latest design change seems pretty minor, but that hasn’t stopped users from grousing about it. Lots of protest groups have already cropped up, most notably “PLEASE GIVE US OUR OLD NEWS FEED BACK!” which already boasts 490,000 members and counting. In case you didn’...

Facebook Sees Big Bucks in Virtual Goods
 Facebook Sees Big 
 Bucks in Virtual Goods 
ONLINE GAMING
Oct 23, 2009 12:56 PM CDT

Facebook Sees Big Bucks in Virtual Goods

Social networking site wants a cut of gaming transactions

(Newser) - Gaming is blowing up on Facebook, and the social networking site hopes to take a cut of the very real revenue generated by virtual interactions. Analysts think credits and other services bought to enhance the likes of “Farmville” and “Mafia Wars” will be trading at a clip of...

Italy Probes 'Kill Berlusconi' Facebook Gang

'Assassination gang' boasts 20K members

(Newser) - Italian authorities have vowed to close down a Facebook group called "Let's Kill Berlusconi," even though its creators say it's harmless fun. Some 20,000 people from all over the world have joined the group, many offering their services to dispatch the embattled Italian leader in a variety...

MySpace Gives Up In Race With Facebook

Social networking leader 'is not our competition'

(Newser) - MySpace has officially waved the white flag in its battle with Facebook. The company’s new CEO—ex-Facebook exec Chris DeWolfe—tells the Financial Times that the company now sees itself as more of a music and entertainment hub than a social networking site. “Facebook is not our competition,...

Unemployment Hasn't Helped Sarah Palin
 Unemployment  
 Hasn't Helped 
 Sarah Palin 
Poll Numbers
Oct 20, 2009 1:55 PM CDT

Unemployment Hasn't Helped Sarah Palin

Poll numbers fall with her low profile

(Newser) - Political professionals largely applauded Sarah Palin’s flight from office, saying it would give her time to lie low, hone her message, and build her brand. But so far the disappearing act hasn’t helped with voters. A new Gallup poll found Palin’s favorable rating at 40%, its lowest...

Facebook Has 300M Users, Most Bored
Facebook Has 300M Users, Most Bored
What's Next?
Oct 19, 2009 11:54 AM CDT

Facebook Has 300M Users, Most Bored

Hunger for next big thing could bring social network down

(Newser) - Facebook has finally turned a profit, and can boast 300 million users—and it may be on its way out. The web has seen dozens of social networking sites come, gain buzz, get huge, and then implode or mutate as users looked for the next big thing—remember Friendster, Livejournal,...

Palin Wades Back Into Health Care Debate

On Facebook, former Alaska gov picks apart Baucus bill

(Newser) - With less than a month to go before the release of her memoir, Sarah Palin has weighed in on the health care debate, opining that the authors of the Baucus bill "no doubt have good intentions, but good intentions aren’t enough." Furthermore, the effort in general "...

Facebook Refuseniks Still Sorta Use It

They object in principle but end up using it by proxy

(Newser) - The Washington Post today profiles an increasingly rare breed: people in their 20s and 30s who don't use Facebook or other such sites. And though the “refuseniks” interviewed have different rationales—privacy, “morals and beliefs,” being “old-school in the personal touch way,” many share something...

Facebook Trips Up High-Living Fugitive

Alleged bank fraudster caught in Cancun

(Newser) - Fugitives of the world, take note: If you’re having the time of your life hanging out in Cancun, you probably shouldn’t brag about it on Facebook. And you definitely shouldn’t add an ex-Justice Department official as a friend. Take it from Maxi Sopo, a 26-year-old who had...

Auschwitz Joins Facebook
 Auschwitz Joins Facebook 
Oct 14, 2009 2:18 PM CDT

Auschwitz Joins Facebook

Museum hopes profile will educate young people

(Newser) - The Auschwitz death camp—now a museum about the horrors that transpired there—has joined Facebook. Officials hope to educate young people about the Holocaust but say they are sensitive to concerns about trivializing the site's history. "We want it to be a place of discourse, but of course...

Facebook, Twitter Will Kill Email ... Maybe
Facebook, Twitter Will Kill Email ... Maybe
OPINION
Oct 12, 2009 3:59 PM CDT

Facebook, Twitter Will Kill Email ... Maybe

Social networking sites have their place, but so does predecessor

(Newser) - Email’s had a good run, but its day is done, according to Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal. Email is an outdated form of communication, better suited to a time when we logged online and off, she argues. Now that we’re always connected, Twitter and Facebook are...

Dad Used Facebook to Proposition Daughter: Cops

Self-described 'Bad Daddy' faces up to 30 years in prison

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania man who used Facebook to proposition his 13-year-old daughter has been charged with attempted incest and unlawful contact with a minor, police say. After tracking down the girl, with whom he had had no contact for a decade, he asked to meet her for sex, writing, "Not...

New Facebook App Finds Your Long-Lost Twin

Coke is to Coke Zero as you are to this friend, app promises

(Newser) - A Facebook app that promises to match you with the person in its network who looks most like you "is fun enough that it just might work," Christina Warren writes for Mashable. The app scans photos of you and photos of others who’ve signed up, and…voila!...

Look Up Exes on Facebook at Your Own Peril
Look Up Exes on Facebook
at Your Own Peril 
OPINION
Oct 6, 2009 10:17 AM CDT

Look Up Exes on Facebook at Your Own Peril

He's probably gay, she probably hates you, and it could ruin your relationship

(Newser) - Back in the halcyon pre-Facebook days, Elizabeth Bernstein writes, you didn't just pick up the phone and ring up an old flame. “If you went looking for a former partner, you knew you were looking for trouble.” So why it should be any different on Facebook? A survey...

FTC Warns Bloggers on 'Reviewing' Freebies

New media critics must come clean or risk fine

(Newser) - Bloggers, Tweeters, and Facebookers who receive payments or free products from companies and in turn hype or review them—without mentioning the arrangement—could be on the hook for $11,000 in FTC fines. The commission’s new regulations offer clear guidelines on the responsibilities of reviewers working in new...

Facebook Fans Win Release of Sexy 'Weasley' Film

Rupert Grint stars in edgy coming-of-age film about Belfast teen

(Newser) - A Facebook petition drive by fans of the actor who plays Harry Potter's sidekick have won release of an edgy sex- and drug-fueled coming-of-age film about a Belfast teen starring Rupert Grint. The film, Cherrybomb, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival but failed to find a distributor. A British company,...

Creator of 'Kill Obama' Poll Is a Kid

No charges filed

(Newser) - The Secret Service has found the mastermind behind the “Should Obama Be Killed?” Facebook poll—and it turns out to be a kid. After a chat with the young perp and the parents, the agency has decided not to press charges, a spokesman said. “This is something we...

Secret Service Closes In on Obama Death Poll Creator

(Newser) - The developer whose software was used to create the “Should Obama be Killed?” Facebook poll has talked to the Secret Service. “The conversation with the SS was fine,” Jesse Farmer wrote on Twitter, but “If the goal was to resolve the issue + inform the SS,...

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