More On Facebook’s TOS
After what can only be termed a kerfuffle last week over changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook has decided to take some pretty drastic steps to address the issue of content ownership on the social networking site: they’re soliciting input from their users.
Giving Up Facebook For Lent?
Well, I guess it all comes down to whatever floats your spiritual boat. In this case the spiritual boat is floating straight out of Facebook—they’ll be back in a month (some of them sooner, probably). Welcome to Lent 2.0, if I may be so crass.
What would Mark Zuckerberg do? If I were him, I’d sit back and marvel, not just that my college days thingamabob has amassed 175 million social networking faithful, but also that a portion of them love Facebook so much they honor it with ritual sacrifice.
FriendFinder Smacked With Labor Suit
Almost a year ago, many of us stood in shock as the CEO of FriendFinder Networks, formerly Penthouse Media Group, saw no conflict whatsoever in the fact the same company that published a porn mag and ran various adult-themed websites also owned and operated BigChurch.com, a Christian dating site. “It’s just business,” he told us.
Mobile Local Search Advertising to Reach $1.3 Billion?
The number of people using mobile devices to get content is on the way up.
Facebook Opens Corporate Blog To Comments
Yesterday, Facebook held a press conference call, put out a press release, and published a blog post as it gave users a voice in the recasting of the site’s terms of use. Today, although there hasn’t been quite as much noise, the social network found another way to demonstrate that it’s interested in people’s opinions.
Spam King Back in News Thanks to Facebook
Remember Sanford Wallace? A little less than a year ago, MySpace won a lawsuit against him after filing it about a year earlier based on a phishing scheme carried out six months before that. He created profiles, groups, and forums on MySpace to lead users to his sites.
The Top Twitter Applications
There are quite a few popular Twitter-based applications around the web. But which ones are the most popular? TechCrunch put together a list of the Top 21 Twitter Applications (According to Compete). They looked at unique monthly visitor data from Compete for the month of January to come up with their list. Here are the first ten:
Losing Focus May Be Costing You Money
In the age of information overload and excessive social media use (which are often joined at the hip), there are still plenty of questions as to whether or not social media is truly beneficial to businesses.
Digg to Take On StumbleUpon and TinyURL?
Twitterer Veronica Belmont had discovered a Flickr page with an alleged upcoming toolbar from Digg that would potentially rival StumbleUpon.
Hitwise Records Drop In Retail Traffic
It would be less than shocking if a certain Pink Floyd song has become stuck in the minds of online retailers recently; "Is There Anybody Out There?" seems like a semi-appropriate question as a new Hitwise report explains that fewer people are swinging by their sites.