More Social Networks News

• 31 January 2012

• News: Student privacy activists due to meet with Facebook

  Austrian student activists say they expect to meet Facebook representatives in Vienna next Monday in an attempt to resolve their disagreements over the social-networking site's privacy policies.

• News: Student privacy activists due to meet with Facebook

  Austrian student activists say they expect to meet Facebook representatives in Vienna next Monday in an attempt to resolve their disagreements over the social-networking site's privacy policies.

• 30 January 2012

• News: Angry Birds comes to Facebook on Valentine's Day

  Looking for an interesting Valentine's Day gift? Big fan of Angry Birds?

• News: Google+ ups competition with Facebook by including teens

  Google is widening the potential user base for Google+ by lowering the age requirement from 18 to 13 years old -- a move that could help it grow in Facebook's shadow.

• News: Expo Notes: Likes turns Facebook likes into recommendations

  WillowTree Apps wants to tap into your Facebook network to help you discover new places, movies, bands, and books. The app maker, which does most of its business by helping others build mobile apps, debuted Likes for iPhone at Macworld | iWorld 2012. The app pulls all of the "likes" that have been entered into Facebook, and gives you recommendations based on what your Facebook friends have liked.

• Video: Video: Facebook, Washington state sue alleged ad scammer

  Washington's attorney general announced two new lawsuits against Adscend Media, a company that allegedly has been earning US$20 million a year using a Facebook scam.

• 28 January 2012

• News: Twitter's country-specific blocking brings hazards and hope

  Twitter's move to comply with government requests and block tweets in specific countries could blunt its edge as a political tool, but there may be an upside in helping to unmask censorship, some privacy experts said Friday.

• 27 January 2012

• News: Facebook IPO could come as soon as next week

  The Internet juggernaut Facebook could file papers for an initial public offering as early as Wednesday, hoping to raise as much as US$10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

• News: Facebook scammers redirect victims through Amazon's cloud

  Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure.

• News: The FBI plans to use social networks to fight crime

  The FBI is planning to use "publicly available" information on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks in a bid to fight national and international threats.

• News: Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries

  Twitter can now remove tweets from users' feeds in specific countries while keeping them visible elsewhere, according to a post on the company's blog on Thursday.

• 26 January 2012

• News: Google and Facebook: A pair of hard-nosed CIOs

  Last time I checked, the whole argument in favour of using consumer technologies in the enterprise was their flexibility, their design experience and their overall more user-friendly approach to offering products and services. If that's the case, why do Facebook and Google suddenly seem worse than the most dictatorial IT exec?

• News: Lawmakers question Google on its new privacy practices

  Google's decision this week to share user data across its online services has caught the attention of eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives, with the lawmakers asking whether the changes will compromise privacy.

• News: Google+ offers more restrictive user experience for teens

  Google+ is now officially welcoming teenagers and tailoring the experience of the social networking site for them by making it more restrictive and potentially safer.

• News: Your Complete Guide to Facebook Timeline

  Facebook announced yesterday that Timeline--its redesigned profile page--is becoming mandatory for all users. If you don't switch to Timeline on your own, Facebook will do so for you within "the next few weeks."

• 25 January 2012

• News: Tibco adds geolocation to its Tibbr social platform

  Tibco has added geolocation technology to its Tibbr enterprise social-networking platform, in a move that will allow companies to use physical spaces as "data hubs," or launching points for information delivery and collection.

• 24 January 2012

• News: All Facebook Profiles Switch to Timeline Soon: Brace for Backlash

  Facebook users who've been avoiding the new Timeline profile format won't have a choice for much longer, because Facebook will be switching all users over to the Timeline format in the next few weeks.

• News: Google+ Says 'Yes' to Nicknames, But No to Anonymity

  Google relaxed the strict naming policy for Google+ users and will allow nicknames and pseudonyms on the social network. The new naming policy, announced by Google’s Bradley Horowitz on Google+, will start rolling out this week and allows users to choose alternatives names, be it nicknames or names in non-Romanized languages. But there’s a caveat.

• News: Twitter acquires antimalware company Dasient

  Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday.

• 23 January 2012

• News: Google+ adds support for pseudonyms -- sort of

  Google has relaxed somewhat its strict real-names policy on Google+, by letting existing members attach an alternate moniker to their profile name and by letting new members sign up with just a pseudonym, provided it is an "established" identity online or offline.

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