Archive for May, 2008

China’s Wen 10th top politician on Facebook - Washington Post

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Resize Text BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, hugely popular at home for his visits to quake-hit Sichuan, has emerged as the 10th most popular politician on the Facebook social networking site. His Facebook page says he had 20,136 >>> Read more Sponsored by: ...

China’s Wen 10th “top politician” on Facebook - ITnews

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

XML celebrates 10th birthday Hijacked Facebook accounts used to spread torture pics YouTube muscles in on Facebook Campaigners slam Facebook Beacon Facebook sues porno hackers Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, hugely popular at home for his visits to quake >>> Read more Being tracked down by long-lost foes ...

Teens Facebook Party Trashes $8 Million Home - WebProNews

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

A family from Britain had their $8 million Spanish home vandalized by 400 teenagers after the owner's 16-year-old daughter put invitations to a party on social networking sites Facebook and Bebo. After invitations to the party were posted rumors >>> Read more Please let us know if ...

MySpace outguns Facebook - News.com.au

Friday, May 30th, 2008

SOCIAL networking site MySpace is up to three times as big as rival Facebook, News Corporation chief executive and chairman Rupert Murdoch says. Speaking to Wall Street Journal reporters at a technology industry conference in the US, Mr Murdoch said >>> Read more More than 400 gatecrashers ...

AOL support for OpenSocial; Too many friends?; Gears to power MySpace - ZDNet Blogs

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week AOL announces support for OpenSocial . These days we can no longer talk in terms of company x joining ...

Chinese premier shows up on Facebook - Chicago Sun-Times

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

BEIJING---- Enthralled with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao? You can now declare it on Facebook. It's not known who set up the page for the leader that now appears on the social networking site and features his official government photo. But the premier >>> Read more 29.05.2008 - ...

Facebook to open source its developer platform? - ZDNet Blogs

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

While it s not yet official, TechCrunch reports that Facebook is planning to open source its Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers can build applications for the social networking site. In a direct response to Google s >>> Read more Dissatisfied ...

Man pleads guilty to using Facebook to entice minors - WLS

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

A suburban man has pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges for using the social networking site Facebook to prey on minors. Twenty-four-year-old Michael Macalindong was arrested in Fox Lake in February of last year. According to the >>> Read more Sponsored by: Discover The ...

Facebook slams door on Google - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

NEW YORK -- Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. First, it must contend with Facebook, the No. 2 online hangout behind MySpace >>> Read more NEW YORK, May 25 ...

Google, Facebook in stalemate over social data - International Herald Tribune

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

NEW YORK : Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. First, it must contend with Facebook, the No. 2 online hangout behind MySpace >>> Read more Sponsored by: 5 ...