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• 08 May 2013

• News: Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster

  A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves.

• 07 May 2013

• News: San Francisco adds social networking element to emergency, disaster planning

  If an earthquake struck San Francisco tomorrow, would its residents be prepared for the aftermath?

• 06 May 2013

• News: Yahoo recruiting iOS developers to 'radically improve' Flickr

  Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a recent job notice.

• News: LinkedIn looks back at 10 years of growth

  LinkedIn celebrates several major milestones this week: Its 10th birthday and 225 million users. Not bad for a site that started with 4500 members and has grown into the world's largest professional social network.

• How-Tos: How to Add Video, Images to Your LinkedIn Profile

  LinkedIn's newest feature lets you showcase your professional achievements by uploading presentations, documents, images and video to your profile. Here are step-by-step instructions for improving your LinkedIn brand.

• News: How to lose friends and alienate people on the social Web

  A plate of artfully arranged pasta or decadent pancakes is placed in front of you, and it looks so tasty that you want to share it with the world. Instead of reaching for your fork, you instead pull out your phone and open Instagram.

• News: Facebook blocks rival Path's access to friends features

  It appears that social network Path is the latest app to be blocked from accessing Facebook.

• News: How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

• 05 May 2013

• News: Instagram will let you tag friends in photos

  Instagram is getting a little bit more like its parent company, Facebook, with a new feature that lets you tag your friends in photos.

• How-Tos: 5 quick steps for using LinkedIn for recruitment

  If you're only using LinkedIn as a glorified business-card collector, an email replacement or some kind of Facebook counterpart for business contacts, you're missing out on its recruitment potential.

• 03 May 2013

• News: Facebook gets to keep its 'Timeline' following trademark settlement

  Facebook has reached an agreement with the company Timelines Inc. to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit over the social network's use of the name Timeline.

• News: Customer focus in IT critical to business success: CommBank's Harte

  Businesses must use technology to increase focus on the customer or risk failure, according to Commonwealth Bank CIO Michael Harte.

• News: China cracks down on Internet bird flu rumors

  Chinese authorities have detained two Internet users for allegedly spreading rumors about the new bird flu virus on the nation's top Twitter-like microblogging site, Sina Weibo.

• News: Facebook rethinks its 'hackathons' with an eye toward mobile

  Facebook is retooling its famous "hackathon" all-night coding workshops to give engineers more time to conceive new products, hopefully with a focus on mobile.

• 02 May 2013

• News: Facebook 'Trusted Contacts' lets you pester friends to recover account access

  Facebook Thursday said it’s making available globally a feature called "Trusted Contacts" that lets users select three to five friends who can help users recover account access such as if they forget their password.

• News: The best social networks for private people

  Social networking and privacy do not go hand-in-hand. After all, the key to a good social networking experience is sharing, and the key to good sharing is...lack of discrimination.

• News: Airpair plays digital matchmaker between startups, developer experts

  Launching a new product or business is hard. Sometimes, even computer nerds need a little tech support.

• News: Facebook reports a big quarter for mobile ads

  Facebook is making money, and a good chunk of it is already coming from advertising on phones.

• 01 May 2013

• News: Is Twitter broken?

  Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an "information-sharing network" are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around.

• News: Facebook revenue rises 38 percent amid continued mobile growth

  Facebook posted a revenue increase of 38 percent in the first quarter that was bolstered by broad engagement across the site, the company reported Wednesday.

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