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  • 17 November 2011

  • News: PayPal launches Facebook app for sending money

    PayPal has launched a Facebook application designed to let users of the social networking site send money to each other.

  • News: Facebook and Skype deepen integration

    Facebook and Skype have broadened the scope of their technical integration to make it possible for two people to do a video chat -- one using the Skype interface and the other using the Facebook interface.

  • 16 November 2011

  • News: Facebook porn storm used same tactics as May's Bin Laden spam

    The attacks against Facebook that planted pornography on users' news feeds relied on the same trickery as a campaign last spring that touted the death of Osama Bin Laden, a security researcher said today.

  • News: Salman Rushdie forces Facebook climbdown over his name

    Sir Salman Rushdie has won a bizarre battle with Facebook which deactivated his account at the weekend because the world-famous author was not using his legal birth name ‘Ahmed’ to identify himself on the service.

  • News: Is Yelp Fair to Businesses?

    Depending on the neighborhood, the fire-engine red "People Love Us on Yelp" sticker outnumbers sedate-looking "Zagat Rated" emblems or fading newspaper reviews on restaurant doors. There's no mistaking the power--and, let's face it, the sheer entertainment value--of candid reviews written by regular diners rather than food-industry elite.

  • News: Orange introduces cheap Facebook phones in Europe, Africa

    Orange launched three Alcatel One Touch phones on Wednesday with dedicated Facebook buttons priced below €100 (US$135).

  • 15 November 2011

  • News: Diaspora social network co-founder dies at age 22

    Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network Diaspora, has died in San Francisco.

  • News: Despite audit, Facebook holds back personal data

    Facebook has reduced the amount of personal data it releases to users as required by European Union law despite an ongoing audit by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner.

  • News: Facebook users flooded with adult images in mystery hack

    For the past several days, many Facebook users have been seeing adult images in their news feeds that feature pornography, violence and animal abuse -- the result of what security analysts say is a mystery attack.

  • News: Lizzie Mary Cullen to draw live art non-stop for 48 hours

    The illustrator will be drawing for two days solid to create a story based around tweets she receives.

  • News: Google+ will gain enterprise social collaboration features

    Google plans to release to customers in the future a version of Google+, already in use internally at the company, that has features designed specifically for workplace collaboration.

  • 14 November 2011

  • News: Tibco's Spotfire ties in-memory analytics to SharePoint, Tibbr social network

    Tibco is giving its Spotfire BI (business intelligence) and visualization tool an injection of social collaboration through integrations with Microsoft SharePoint and its own Tibbr enterprise social networking product, the company announced Monday.

  • 11 November 2011

  • News: LinkedIn Tip: How to Find the Right Group for You

    With more than 1.1 million LinkedIn Groups, users are bound to find professionals that share similar interests and goals--LinkedIn has groups for CIOs, IT professionals, social media enthusiasts and more.

  • News: Is Google+ or Facebook better for business?

    Ever since Google came out with Google+ Pages for business on Monday, the company has taken heat for not giving enterprises basic tools with this initial offering.

  • News: Google buys Katango to boost Google+ Circles feature

    Google has acquired startup Katango to improve and refine the Circles friend-grouping functionality in its new social networking site Google+.

  • News: Twitter research: It's where the money and action is

    Two professors from Wellesley College's Department of Computer science have been awarded a nearly half million dollar NSF grant to build an application that gauges the trustworthiness of information shared on social networks, and in particular Twitter.

  • News: Too much social networking could lead to Big Brother fears, agency says

    Europe’s biggest cyber security agency, ENISA, has warned that social networking could lead to a feeling of being continuously under surveillance and paranoid behaviour.

  • 10 November 2011

  • News: Should social networks be blocked at work?

    One of the biggest trends in IT is how consumer products have crept into the enterprise, and the trend extends to Internet services. The ingenious thing about social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn is that these consumer-oriented sites have become key tools for professionals. Take journalists, for example. While reporters may still pound the pavement or work the phones to find stories, now sometimes a story can present itself in LinkedIn forums or through Facebook postings. Sometimes the social networks become an extension of the reporting team, in a practice called "crowdsourcing." And the reporter who used to appear as nothing more than a byline can now enter the conversation with instant feedback on a comment about a story. But other professions have not embraced social networks so much, and indeed have viewed them as threats to security or productivity. Would users spend their days catching up with high school friends and playing Farmville on Facebook? Remember when many IT departments were leery about users checking their personal email accounts from work, afraid they would click on a link and take down the entire network? While that danger still exists, it has been reduced a bit through the use of spam filters and user education. The same can be said for social networks, as IT staff can still provide general tips on what can be dangerous. In this PDF, Network World has compiled stories that take a look at the pros and cons of blocking social networks while at work. Many of these stories cite surveys that indicate whether productivity is lost in allowing social networks within the company network. Become an Insider today (free registration required) to download the PDF.

  • News: Facebook: No comment on privacy settlement with the FTC

    Facebook on Thursday declined to comment on a news report that it is nearing a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over concerns about changes in its privacy policy.

  • 09 November 2011

  • News: Facebook satisfied with initial takeup of social music

    Facebook is declaring early success for the new functionality on its site that lets members notify their friends what songs they're listening to online and makes it possible for notification recipients to play back those songs from within the Facebook interface.

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