L'EQUIPE
Foot - L2 - Le Mans - Cerdan vers le clash ?
Frustré de rester au Mans et d'évoluer cette saison en L2, Grégory Cerdan s'en est pris, via son profil Facebook , au...
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MarketWatch
MarketWatch First Take: Apple brings social networking to iTunes
Apple Inc.’s new social network within its iTunes music store, called Ping, is a smack at Facebook and MySpace, and a leap over Amazon.com Inc. and its digital music offerings, writes Therese Poletti.
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Technology Review
Apple Shows a Facebook Rival and Apple TV 2.0
Music-focused social network is linked to iTunes, and TV shows will rent for 99 cents.
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THE AUSTRALIAN
Google buy to help tackle Facebook
GOOGLE has bought social games start-up SocialDeck, the latest in a series of acquisitions aimed at competing with Facebook.
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news.com.au
Kylie's 'nude' photo banned by Facebook
SEE the special photo featuring Kyle Minogue and "nudity" that Facebook simply had to remove.
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People Daily
Heartbroken Hong Kongers mourn hostage victims
A total of 18 condolence points across Hong Kong, together with a dedicated facebook page, were set up by the city's government on Tuesday, allowing residents to mourn eight Hong Kong victims of the hostage-taking incident in the Philippine capital Manila.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang visited one of the condolence points set up at Leighton Hill Community Hall in Wan Chai on the...
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Science Daily
The future of the Web is a matter of semantics
The first incarnation of the web was composed of static websites that linked to each other and search engines to help you find sites of interest. Web 2.0 brought a social element to the web, with users sharing, commenting, and interacting through sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr. The future web, the "semantic web," or Web 3.0, will embed meaning within digital information so that any...
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manager magazin
Die Wirtschaftsglosse: Vom Mayor zum Maier
Wer träumt nicht davon: Einfach neu anfangen, mit frischer Identität, an einem exotischen Ort und befreit von Sünden der Jugend. Am Ende des Tages lassen Google und Facebook diesen Traum wahr werden - wenn wir nur genug von uns preisgeben.
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DailyTech
Facebook is Going "Places" -- Launches New Service
Introduces geo-location feature that lets users check-in with friends.
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WirtschaftsWoche
Facebook will wissen wo wir sind
Das größte soziale Netzwerk will seine Nutzer auf Schritt und Tritt verfolgen. Der Dienst Places könnte der Durchbruch für ein neues Geschäftsfeld sein.
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Orf
Facebook: Warnung vor falschem "Like"-Button
Betrüger wollen mit "Dislike"-Button Zugriff auf Profil
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taz
Soldatin zeigt Armeefotos bei Facebook: "Weder beschimpft noch bespuckt"
Eine israelische Soldatin stellte Fotos aus ihrer Armeezeit auf Facebook, auf denen sie vor gefangenen Palästinensern posierte. Der Fall zeigt: Die Armee dort hat ein grundsätzliches Problem. mehr...
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Mail & Guardian
Uproar over former Israeli soldier's Facebook snaps
There was outrage on Tuesday after a former Israeli soldier posted on Facebook pictures of herself with blindfolded Palestinian prisoners.
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euronews
Les photos "honteuses" d'une ancienne soldate israélienne
"La meilleure période de ma vie..." C'est le nom que cette jeune israélienne a donné à un album photo publié sur le site internet Facebook... On y…
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Nikkei
Capcom To Offer Social Network Games For Facebook |
Le Point
Facebook: les recettes publicitaires vont dépasser 1 milliard de dollars (étude)
Les revenus publicitaires du site de socialisation Facebook vont presque...
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Gala
Kylie Minogue: Zu unanständig für Facebook
Kylie Minogue posierte so unanständig mit einem Teddy, dass Facebook das Foto löschte
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CNN Money
Facebook disagrees with Google-Verizon pact
If Google and Verizon hope to get their joint policy proposal on Net neutrality through Congress, they'll have to go through Facebook first.
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APA-OTS
Easybooking baut seine Social Media Vorreiterrolle aus - Anfragen und Buchungen werden dank Julia(C) mit Freunden auf FB geteilt
Utl.: Virales Marketing: das automatisches Vertriebssystem Julia@ erhält
zahlreiche neue Features zur Gästegewinnung auf Facebook und im
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People
In His Own Words: JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater's 20 Year-Career
On his Facebook and MySpace pages, he boasted about flying high and taking a five year break from the skies
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TMZ
Flight Attendants: Steven Slater Is Our Frickin' Hero!
Filed under: Steven Slater, Celebrity Justice
Flight attendants from airlines everywhere are rallying around JetBlue 's most famous employee Steven Slater -- praising him for fighting "flight attendant abuse" and even building him a shrine ... on Facebook . TMZ has learned someone created an FB fan…
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ARD
Das zwischtert gewaltig!
Aktienpusher und Betrüger spielen ihr Spiel mit neuen Waffen: mit Facebook, MySpace und Twitter. Die Jagd auf unbedarfte Anleger Jagd folgt nach dem alten Muster: "Machen Sie mit dieser Aktie das große Geld!" Bei solchen Lockrufen wird so mancher schwach.
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Les Echos
Suspicion sur les chiffres d'audience de Facebook
Nul ne peut le nier : la croissance de Facebook est exponentielle, comme en témoigne la barre des 500 millions d'utilisateurs, franchie en juillet. Reste à savoir comment ces chiffres sont calculés, et s'ils sont réellement fiables. Le débat est ouvert à ce sujet. Car les données que communique le...
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Entertainment Online
Fashion Police: Worst Dressed of the Week
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Slashdot
Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity
Andorin writes "A tweet from the EFF pointed me to a short article detailing part of Eric Schmidt's speech to the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe on August 4. According to Schmidt, true transparency and anonymity on the Internet will become a thing of the past because of the need to combat criminal and 'anti-social' behavior. 'Governments will demand it,' he says, referring to full accountab...
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The Sun
Social notworking
TWO million UK staff spend HOUR a day on likes of Facebook and Twitter, says new study
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Daily Telegraph
Wife finds hubbie already married on web
WIFE finds cheating husband was married to another woman in Facebook search.
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insideedition
Alleged Facebook Bigamist Denies Accusations
John France is accused of being a bigamist by his first wife, but he denies it and says his first marriage was not valid. INSIDE EDITION has the shocking story.
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omg
'Harry Potter' Heroine Emma Watson Debuts Hot New Hairstyle
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- It's official -- Hermione's all grown up. The "Harry Potter" star posted a photo of her shockingly short new pixie cut on her Facebook page Thursday.
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Hoy
«REDIVIVOS»
Los vivos están en las redes sociales. Los muertos más vivos, también. Lois Pereiro vuelve a escribir. Él quizá no lo sabe, pero aquel verso suyo «esta vez no habrá resurrección/y el futuro es por fuerza ajeno a mí» es ya una profecía incumplida. Su hermano, amigos y admiradores resucitan al poeta gallego en Twitter y en Facebook, paraísos virtuales donde el recuerdo acaba con el limbo. Los fin...
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The Nation
PTA ordered to remove blasphemous material from Internet
LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday ordered the secretary information technology, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), to remove all anti-Islam and blasphemous material from Internet, especially Facebook, Wikipedia and Youtube.
Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Azhar Siddique advocate, Chairman Judicial…
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politico
How Palin scrubs her Facebook page
No mean comments allowed!
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The Jerusalem Post
Facebook page decries 'Jewish invasion'
384 "Likes" posted already by Facebook members.
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physorg
Indonesian Internet use booming
So you've looked up sexy spy Anna Chapman's Facebook photos and you've cried along with Lindsay Lohan as she was sent to the slammer, but what about Peterporn, Sinta and Jovita? Ever heard of them?
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Goal.com
Especial: ¡Apúntate a Goal.com, ahora también en Facebook!
¿El fútbol es tu pasión? ¿Quieres que se oiga tu opinión sobre la actualidad del mundo del fútbol? La página oficial de Goal.com España en Facebook es tu sitio. ¡No pierdas tiempo y súmate YA!
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iol
Cops use social networks to nail gang
Philippine police say they used Twitter and Facebook to track down a flamboyant gang of young men and women who robbed the rich to feed their drug habits.
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el universal
Facebook entrará a la bolsa en 2012
La red social es una de las empresas más valiosas del planeta, pero esperará a tener más usuarios y ganancias
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perez hilton
Atari Coming to Facebook! LIKE
Before there was Farmville…before the Mafia Wars….there was ATARI.
In the 1970’s, Atari ruled the video game industry, but over time they were dominated by overweight plumbers and speed-fiending hedgehogs. Now, they are returning with a large scale online initiative on Facebook and other social network sites.
Atari will be updating its classics, such as Missile Command [...]
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Salon
Bristol Palin dumps Levi Johnston over other women
Bristol Palin told People Magazine that she dumped repeat fiance Levi Johnston after finding out he may have impregnated another woman. Lanesia Garcia was outed by the National Enquirer as the knocked-up teen in question, but Garcia told US Weekly that she hasn't hung out with Johnston since the ninth grade. According to E!Online, the real reason for the split was a <em>different</em&...
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Scientific American
Honesty Online: How Skewed Is Your Profile?
Social-networking sites are a way to find out about people you’re curious about but have never met--say, a prospective employee you’re deciding whether to hire. But when you scan someone’s profile, you probably expect a little fudging: an overly flattering photograph, a generously phrased blurb in the “about me” section. A study in the March issue of Psychological Science , however, suggests t...
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Art Review
Drake Music joined dawn hilton's group
Drake Music joined dawn hilton's group Facebook GroupAdd your Facebook link here.....
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dlisted
UPDATE: Meare Kat Reunited With His Rightful Owner
The most anticipated reunion since Celie and Nettie happened in Suffolk the other day when Meare Kat, a recent inductee into the Hot Slut Hall of Fame (or is it Shame?), was back in the arms of his owner, a 3-year-old boy named Ned. Everybody play "Reunited" on their Playskool Xylophones!
Meare Kat's real name is Bubba Cat, and Ned left him in a teashop in Suffolk last week. The teashop's owner...
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Telegraph
Mobile data lifts Telecity
Telecity, the datacentre operator whose technology stores your Facebook photos
and Spotify playlists, has added further power capacity in order to meet
soaring demand for its services.
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La Voix du Nord
Berck: un apéro géant Facebook sur la plage samedi soir Ÿ |
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
A saudade ballad for Facebook
Making ‘friends’ with long-lost kindergarten pals has its benefits, but we sacrifice the sweet sadness of wondering about them
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Daily Mail
Social networking giant Facebook set to delay float
Facebook Inc, the company behind the world's largest social networking site, has delayed plans for a public share sale until 2012.
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USA Today
Novelist Anne Rice ditches Christianity for Christ
Novelist Anne Rice says she's quit being a Christian. Not quit believing in Christ but, according to her Facebook page, she's had it with Christians.
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Irish Times
Details of Facebook users published
The personal details of more than 100 million Facebook users have been made available to download from the internet via file-sharing websites and torrents.
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FOCUS
Online-Netzwerk - Facebook beantwortet Fragen
Wo gibt es die beste Pizza in der Stadt? Welche neue CD soll ich mir kaufen? Solche und ähnliche Fragen kann man künftig auf Facebook stellen. Von FOCUS-Online-Autorin Claudia Frickel
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National Post
Women more social, spend more money online than men
Although women still make up less than half of the global online population, women spend more time online, are more likely to visit a social networking site like Facebook or Twitter and spend more money at online stores than their male counterparts
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lesoir
Google travaillerait à un réseau social
Le groupe internet Google est en discussions avec plusieurs éditeurs de jeux vidéos, dans l’idée de s’assurer leur concours pour la mise en pied d’un service de réseau social qui concurrencerait Facebook
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Krone
Mutmaßlicher Mörder dank Facebook überführt
Mit Hilfe von Facebook ist der Polizei auf den Philippinen am Dienstag ein mutmaßlicher Mörder ins Netz gegangen. Der Computerfachmann und Waffennarr konnte laut Behördenangaben dank seines Benutzerkontos ausfindig und dingfest gemacht werden. "Seine Liebe zu Computern hat ihn verraten", sagte Polizeipräsident Daniel Bautista am Dienstag der Nachrichtenagentur AP.
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News.co.au
Woman 'defaced Facebook tribute page'
A WOMAN has been charged with defacing an online Facebook tribute page for Sunshine Coast murder victim Justine Jones.
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Los Angeles Times
Share your memories of Marc Abrams -- Silver Lake's 'Walking Man' dies at 58
Residents of Silver Lake have lost a neighborhood staple. The Los Angeles County coroner's office early Thursday confirmed the death of Marc Abrams, 58, who was simply known as the "Walking Man."Abrams earned nicknames such as the Walking Man, the Silver Lake Walker, the Reader Walker and the Walking Doctor because he has been taking long walks through the neighborhood since moving there in the...
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Le Monde Diplomatique
Facebook is watching you
La multiplication des techniques de surveillance implique une vigilance accrue de la part des citoyens. Mais le dévoilement volontaire d'informations les concernant par les membres de Facebook peut-il être comparé en tout point à la collecte de données par les pouvoirs publics ou les sociétés (...)
/ États-Unis, Entreprise, Internet, Publicité, TIC, Télésurveillance, Marketing - mav/109
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Liberation
Vaseline en terrain glissant
Un groupe de cosmétiques, Vaseline, a introduit une application sur Facebook en Inde permettant aux utilisateurs de blanchir leur peau sur leur photo...
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Foreign Policy
Your humble blogger is enjoying some serious vacation time. What do you want him to talk about when he returns?
Your humble blogger was all prepared to be diligent, posting even while on a brief vacation. However, after three days in a spectacular Europeal locale that will go unnamed oh, I'll fess up, I'm in Florence, I'm afraid that I've eaten too much fabulous pasta to give a damn about blogging Eurosclerosis has overtaken my Yankee work ethic.
Active blogging will resume on Thursday. In the mea...
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chinatechnews
The End Of Social Networking Sites In China?
A new report issued by a Chinese government-funded research organization states Facebook and Western social networking sites pose spy risks, and these problems should make social media mavens worry about possible clampdowns on social networking sites in China. According to local media, the "Blue Book of New Media" published by the Chinese Academy of Social [...]
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Rolling Stone
Trent Reznor Scores David Fincher's Facebook Movie
Trent Reznor promised fans he'd keep making music despite retiring Nine Inch Nails from the road, and so far he's delivered: his new band with wife Mariqueen Maandig, How to Destroy Angels, released a free EP earlier this summer, and now Reznor has revealed he's recording the score for the ...
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exchnage4media
Reporter’s Diary: A tad disappointed at Mark Zuckerberg’s guarded replies
The most eagerly awaited session of the day was the Mark Zuckerberg session. He is the CEO of Facebook, and that is no small task. The queues outside the Palais had to be seen. Even the Grand audi, where the session was being simultaneously telecast, was packed. However, the session by itself was boring. He was too guarded, gave the usual answers, which revealed nothing. For a company that has ...
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Times LIVE
FrontierVille set to bring more Zynga to social network sites
Online social gaming is set for rapid expansion as the company behind the Facebook favourite, FarmVille, has announced plans to bring its games to more people.
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DerStandard
FPÖ/FPK - FPÖler "aus Privatinteresse" mit Neonazi-Homepage verlinkt
Blauer Unternehmer wirbt in Facebook für illegale Seiten
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Handelsblatt
Technologie: Aigner spricht mit Facebook-Vertretern
Bundesverbraucherministerin Ilse Aigner (CSU) will im Gespräch mit Vertretern des Online-Netzwerks Facebook mehr Datenschutz einfordern. Aigner hatte mit dem Ende ihrer persönlichen Mitgliedschaft bei dem Freunde-Netzwerk des US-Unternehmens gedroht.
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NZZ
«Über eigene Worte entsetzt»
BP-Chef Hayward entschuldigt sich auf Facebook
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Barrons
D8: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Live!
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Rancho Palos Verde, California this afternoon for an on stage grilling at the D: All Things Digital conference by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
Here are some of the highlights:
On privacy, Zuckerberg says they spend a lot of time talking about privacy at Facebook; people [...]
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Bild
Facebook - So funktioniert der neue Datenschutz
Facebook will mit neuen Einstellmöglichkeiten einen verbesserten Datenschutz bieten. BILD.de stellt die wichtigsten neuen Funktionen vor.Foto: dpa
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FAZ
Stoiber als Bundespräsident?: Politische Folklore auf Facebook
Schon 2004 war Edmund Stoiber als Bundespräsident im Gespräch - er winkte ab. Jetzt werfen sich jugendliche Heißsporne in der CSU für ihren Ehrenvorsitzenden in die Bresche. Politisch reifere Jahrgänge halten sich dagegen zurück. FAZ.NET - Homepage | Politik | Gesellschaft | Wirtschaft | Finanzmarkt | Sport | Feuilleton | Reise | Wissen | Auto | Computer
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DieZeit
Facebook: Im Sog der Masse
Ein Datenschutzskandal jagt bei Facebook den nächsten. Trotzdem wächst die Internetfirma rasant. Aber wem schenken 470 Millionen Erdenbürger da eigentlich ihr Vertrauen?
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Pravda
Facebook said on Tuesday that it has blocked users in Pakistan from accessing the 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day !' page on its site out of respect for local standards and customs.
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NEWS.au.com
30,000 quit Facebook in protest
A GROUP protesting Facebook's privacy policies says more than 30,000 people had heeded its call to quit.
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New York Times
Pakistani Court Orders Access to Facebook Restored
Access was restored but a Pakistani court still ordered the government to block content blasphemous to Islam.
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science blogs
Blogkeeping [White Coat Underground]
I'm off to watch my daughter march in some sort of neo-fascist parade (Daisy scouts) and then off to the hospital, but first some quick housekeeping issues:
You can subscribe to WCU's feed here.You can have updates delivered by email.There is a facebook page on which updates are posted.The PalCast is on permanent hiatus due to time constraints. Read the comments on this post...
Also check out...
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Times of India
Pakistani court lifts Facebook ban
A Pakistani court on Monday directed authorities to restore access to Facebook two weeks after blocking the popular social networking website for hosting a page with blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.
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The New Yorker
Dana Goodyear: Mark Zuckerberg tweeks the privacy settings on Facebook.
Last Wednesday, the same day that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and C.E.O. of Facebook, announced that the company would revoke its controversial new anti-privacy privacy settings, Chris Kelly, the company’s former chief privacy officer, was in Los Angeles, killing an hour in a hotel lobby. Kelly, who . . .
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AP
Lawmaker seeks cooperation from Google, Facebook
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the House Judiciary Committee is asking Google Inc. and Facebook to cooperate with any government inquiries into privacy practices at both companies....
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CNN
Facebook, facing criticism, ramps up privacy options
Faced with a backlash that wouldn't go away, Facebook announced changes Wednesday that will make it easier for users to change privacy settings and block outside parties from seeing personal information.
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DerSpiegel
Antiamerikanische Stimmung: Pakistaner gründen islamisches Facebook
Echte Freundschaft sieht anders aus: In Pakistan brennen US-Flaggen, wütende Männer demonstrieren gegen ein soziales Netzwerk im Internet. Der Protest überschreitet die Grenze zum Absurden. Jetzt haben pakistanische Anwälte ein "islamisches Facebook" gegründet.
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ElPais
Los críticos de Facebook piden más cambios
Facebook, de la mano de su máximo responsable Mark Zuckerberg, presentó el miércoles una simplificación del sistema de control de la privacidad por parte de sus miembros. Era la respuesta a una ola de críticas por la política de la red social que abría a terceros muchos datos de las cuentas de sus miembros. Las primeras reacciones demuestran satisfacción por el paso dado por la compañía, pero q...
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Al Jazhera
Pakistan lifts YouTube ban
Access to YouTube restored, but Facebook remains blocked after cartoon controversy.
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Hindustan Times
Facebook changes privacy tools
Amid mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust of its users, world's largest social networking site Facebook today overhauled its privacy controls under which the amount of information that is always visible to others will be reduced.
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Gizmodo
Buddy Radio Lets Your Grandma Broadcast Her Feelings to Twitter and Facebook [Buddyradio]
How does Grandma stay connected to you? Buddy Radio hopes to help the elderly by giving them an old school gadget—a basic radio—that combines new school technology—social networks—so they can broadcast their mood and ask for help. More »
Facebook - Online Communities - Social Networking - Twitter - Radio
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Heise
Facebook erlaubt Nutzern mehr Kontrolle über Privatsphäre |
BoingBoing
Facebook of the Dead
Read Facebook of the Dead, a Boing Boing special feature by Mark Dery....
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FT
Facebook acts to appease critics on privacy
Facebook introduced drastically simplified privacy controls in an effort to appease regulators and advocacy groups who have criticised the world’s largest social network for taking liberties with user data
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FOX
Soldier Ordered to Remove Facebook Taunt Video |
WSJ
Facebook Fracas Hits California Race
The dust-up over Facebook's privacy practices is becoming a political headache for the company's former privacy chief in his bid for California attorney general.
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Huffington Post
Australia Minister Attacks 'Creepy' Google In Web Row
Australia's communications minister has called Google's privacy policy "a bit creepy" in personal attacks against the head of the company and fellow Web giant Facebook in an Internet filtering row.
More on Google
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sueddeutsche
Facebook: Zuckerberg gibt sich kleinlaut
Facebook-Chef Mark Zuckerberg reagiert auf die Kritik der vergangenen Wochen und gelobt besseren Datenschutz. Doch konkrete Schritte bleibt er schuldig.
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Le Figaro
Confidentialité : le PDG de Facebook fait son mea culpa
Facebook et plusieurs autres réseaux sociaux ont envoyé des données personnelles de leurs utilisateurs à des régies publicitaires.
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The Guardian
Aditya Chakrabortty
We've handed our personal database to internet companies with hardly any questions askedThe next time you hear the phrase "internet privacy", don't think of teenage infatuations heatedly committed to Facebook, of lads puking down their Ted Bakers and sticking the cameraphone footage on YouTube, or of some hack writer tweeting about the progress of his colonic cancer. No, consider instead AOL ...
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FTD
Datenkontrolle: Facebooks Dilemma bleibt
Wenn die Nutzer des sozialen Netzwerks besser kontrollieren können, wer ihre Daten sieht, wird Facebook für Investoren weniger interessant. Gründer Zuckerberg ist naiv, wenn er glaubt, den Grundkonflikt zwischen beiden Gruppen ganz auflösen zu können.
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TechCrunch
Appbistro Is Building An Application Marketplace For Facebook Pages
Appbistro launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference what can best be referred to as an application marketplace for Facebook Pages.
Using the Web-based service, Facebook Page administrators, be it global brands or small local businesses, can quickly discover relevant applications that they can (and should) swiftly integrate into their Facebook presence(s).
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Mashable
Constant Contact Acquires NutshellMail to Move into Social Media Marketing
E-mail marketing giant Constant Contact has acquired NutshellMail, a service that lets businesses track and post updates to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn…
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BBC
Facebook chief's privacy pledge
Social network founder Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence to pledge simpler privacy controls for users "as soon as possible".
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Wired
Zuckerberg: New Privacy Controls, But No Apologies
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the furor over Facebook's recent moves in a new Op-Ed, but gives little ground to his critics. It's a familiar story, but will it play out as well for Facebook as it has in the past?
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Washington Post
Local Digest
Virginia will become a major battleground in the Obama administration's attack on national financial fraud cases, federal and state authorities said Friday.
United States - England - Magazines and E-zines - Health - Facebook
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Reuters
After Facebook, Pakistan shuts down YouTube
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube indefinitely in a bid to contain "blasphemous" material, officials said on Thursday.
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circleID
Facebook and YouTube Blocked in Pakistan
The Dawn Newspaper (LAHORE Thursday, 20 May, 2010): "The Government of Pakistan blocked on Wednesday access to Facebook after the Lahore High Court ordered closure of the social networking website until May 31 for holding a competition of blasphemous drawings. Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry asked Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Director Mudassar Husain to file a detailed report on the m...
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The Economist
Facebook, Google and privacy: Dicing with data
Google and especially Facebook should change the way they look after people’s personal informationIN THE space of a week two of the best-known internet companies have found themselves in a pickle over privacy. Facebook faces criticism for making more information about its users available by default. Meanwhile Google has been castigated by a bevy of privacy regulators for inadvertently collectin...
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AllThingsDigital
A Social Network to Grow On [The Mossberg Solution]
Katie reviews Togetherville, an online social network designed to function as a safe zone for kids under the age of 10 who want to interact online with their friends.
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The Times
Big-screen focus at Cannes for chatter and crazy compulsions
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube may be integral to the lives of millions of people around the world but so far film-makers have ignored the 21st century’s biggest social phenomenon.
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TheTimes
Zynga’s FarmVille at loggerheads with Facebook in row over money
It was a union between two of the web’s coolest young things: FarmVille, among the world’s most popular online games, and Facebook, which has rapidly grown into the largest social network, in large part because users play FarmVille on the site.
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Golem
URL-Verkürzer von Google und Facebook
Google hat unter goo.gl einen URL-Verkürzer gestartet, der eng mit der Google Toolbar verzahnt ist. Auch Facebook experimentiert mit einer Kurz-URL: fb.me. (RSS, Facebook)
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Fortune
Microsoft gives Windows Live a Facebook facelift
By Yi-Wyn Yen Microsoft is trying its luck at social networking - again. After a failed attempt four years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) is ripping a page from Facebook's playbook, introducing on Thursday new profile and photo-sharing features to its web-based Windows Live services. The software giant allows users with Windows Live Hotmail or Messenger accounts [...]
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siliconindia
Most Hilarious video attack on Facebook
Attacks on Facebook during weekends are unfortunately becoming a trend. For the third weekend in a row users on Facebook are bombarded with messages on their walls.
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Zeit
Facebook: Womit wir im Netz unsere Zeit verbringen
Von wegen "Null Blog" – soziale Netzwerke sind dabei, die wichtigste Anwendung im Internet zu werden. Sie stillen das menschliche Bedürfnis nach Vernetzung.
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China Daily
Facebook and other social media cost UK billions
Employees who fritter time away on Facebook, Twitter and other social media Web sites are costing British businesses billions, new research suggests.
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Countries |
MIX |
| 1 | United States | 156.770 |
| 2 | India | 78.360 |
| 3 | Germany | 26.885 |
| 4 | Brazil | 16.095 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 14.637 |
| 6 | France | 13.786 |
| 7 | Italy | 12.105 |
| 8 | Spain | 10.245 |
| 9 | Canada | 8.828 |
| 10 | Australia | 7.110 |
| 11 | China | 6.890 |
| 12 | Mexico | 6.510 |
| 13 | Philipines | 6.460 |
| 14 | Poland | 6.160 |
| 15 | Turkey | 5.765 |
| 16 | Indonesia | 5.260 |
| 17 | Sweden | 5.170 |
| 18 | Romania | 4.400 |
| 19 | Russia | 3.980 |
| 20 | Switzerland | 3.844 |
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Media |
MIX |
| 1 | es mas | 0.100 |
| 2 | zimbio | 0.050 |
| 3 | ziare | 0.020 |
| 4 | zero hora | 0.360 |
| 5 | Ziarul Financiar | 0.020 |
| 6 | ZETA | 0.120 |
| 7 | ZEIT | 0.460 |
| 8 | zdnet | 0.610 |
| 9 | X-bit labs | 0.009 |
| 10 | Westdeutsche Zeitung | 0.070 |
| 11 | Gazeto Wyborcza.pl | 1.600 |
| 12 | WALL STREET JOURNAL USA | 3.750 |
| 13 | Wirtualna Polska | 0.100 |
| 14 | Women´s health | 0.400 |
| 15 | Womansday | 0.780 |
| 16 | Wirtschaftswoche | 0.040 |
| 17 | Wise Bread | 0.010 |
| 18 | Wired | 0.620 |
| 19 | Whats on TV | 0.320 |
| 20 | What´s on TV | 0.200 |
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Languages |
MIX |
| 1 | English | 238.478 |
| 2 | Hindi | 42.600 |
| 3 | German | 33.483 |
| 4 | Spanish | 25.175 |
| 5 | Portuguese | 18.295 |
| 6 | French | 15.856 |
| 7 | Italian | 12.105 |
| 8 | Polish | 6.160 |
| 9 | Turkish | 5.765 |
| 10 | Chinese | 5.690 |
| 11 | Indonesian | 5.260 |
| 12 | Swedish | 5.170 |
| 13 | Romanian | 4.400 |
| 14 | Dutch | 3.815 |
| 15 | Norwegian | 3.070 |
| 16 | Czech | 2.390 |
| 17 | Russian | 2.380 |
| 18 | Arabic | 2.200 |
| 19 | Gujarati | 2.000 |
| 20 | Finnish | 1.960 |
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Lists |
| 1 | Online Corporations |
| 2 | Networks |