US law enforcement reveals social networks use

2010-03-18T09:16:39Z

<div><p>Criminals beware! US law enforcement authorities may be stalking you on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or Twitter.</p><p>Justice Department and Facebook users with an email scam that attempts to steal their passwords, Web security firm McAfee said.</p><p>McAfee said on Wednesday some users of the world's most popular social networking site were receiving emails that appeared to be from Facebook informing them their Facebook password had been reset and to click on an attachment to retrieve it.</p><p>The sec...

New password-stealing virus targets Facebook

2010-03-17T18:15:32Z

<div><p>BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.</p><p>The emails tell recipients that the passwords on their Facebook accounts have been reset, urging them to click on an attachment t...

Some options for selling unwanted stuff

2010-03-17T11:00:58Z

<div id="subtitle">More stuff, more options: Recession, Internet affect the market for used items</div><div><p>Spring for many homeowners means confronting all the things that have filled up the closets, basement and garage over the past year. As the late comedian George Carlin used to say: "Your house is a pile of stuff with a cover on it."</p><p>Getting rid of that stuff has always been tricky — espec...

Documents detail US law enforcement use of social networks

2010-03-17T10:16:36Z

<div><p>Criminals beware! US law enforcement authorities may be stalking you on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or Twitter.</p><p>Justice Department and BELFAST (Reuters Life!) - The world's oldest licensed distillery has entered into the spirit of St. Patrick's Day with a competition for a whiskey lover's dream job.</p><p>The Bushmills Whiskey distillery in Northern Ireland is scouring the p...

Facebook beats Google in US for first time: tracker

2010-03-17T02:23:06Z

<div><p>Social-networking star Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week, industry analysts showed.</p><p>Facebook's homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in the country, according to industry tracker

When tweets can make you a jailbird

2010-03-16T20:45:06Z

<div id="subtitle">The feds turn to social networks to fight crime, hoping that tweet will give them a jailbird</div><div><p>Maxi Sopo was having so much fun "living in paradise" in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor in Seattle<...

Nearly one-third of Danes use Facebook at work: poll

2010-03-16T09:17:17Z

<div><p>Nearly one-third of Danes regularly log on to Facebook at work, mingling away the equivalent of about 1.5 billion euros in lost working hours each year, according to a poll published Tuesday.</p><p>The poll, conducted by the Dwarf and Userneeds institutes between February 2 and 8, showed that some 55,000 Facebook users spend more than 30 minutes of each work day logged on to the social networking site.</...

Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI

2010-03-16T00:30:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Facebook feds go undercover: Report shows FBI, other agents dipping quietly into social media</div><div><p>The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Reuters) - The use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by militant and hate groups grew by almost 20 percent in the past year, a report by the Facebook opening operations office in India to support global growth</div><div><p>Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.</p><p>The office, in the southern Indian city of Facebook said Monday it would open its first office in India to help it tap the increasing popularity of social networking via the Internet in the country.</p><p>The office will be located in the southern city of Hyderabad and work along similar lines to other operation centres in the MUMBAI (Reuters) - Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages.</p><p>Facebook's office ...

Online Brand Management - Optimizing Facebook

2010-03-13T14:25:09Z

We've previously discussed the Web's amazing tendency to take very good ideas and adapt them to techniques largely unrelated to their original intent. Nowhere is this more currently prevalent than in the realm of Social Media Networking.<br><br>SM sites were intended to allow people to present a profile and keep in touch with interested parties. In essence a combination of email and webpage, they exploded in popularity with the sort of overnight success prevalent on the Web. Of co...

Personal Blog Positioning Will Make You A Social Media Pro

2010-03-12T15:33:02Z

So you have been hearing all the buzz about getting free exposure for your product or service by using the great social media platforms like Youtube & Facebook, right? Whether you have your Twitter, Youtube, or Facebook channel created yet, you probably have no idea how to piece them all together like a jigsaw puzzle to produce the most exposure to your product or service.<...

Lesbian Prom Date

2010-03-11T18:33:19Z

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, reads her many messages from Facebook and Myspace concerning her desire to attend her senior prom with a same-sex date ...

MySpace upping ante in online social games

2010-03-11T06:15:59Z

<div><p>MySpace began courting videogame developers as it moved to capitalize on the booming popularity of playing games online at social networks.</p><p>"We initially embraced games a few years back with a gaming platform, but at the end of the day it was fairly isolated in certain parts of MySpace," MySpace co-president Mike Jones told AFP at a Facebook? The answer is a resounding yes! In a 2009 survey of MDsearch physicians, 67% confessed to being regular Facebook users. Surprised? We were too. The idea of a busy physician taking time to update a status or write on someone's wall...well, it's hard to imagine. But when you consider that Facebook has over 400 million active users, well, it really shouldn't surprise anyone that physicians would be part of the ...

Classmates Sued Over Content-Sharing Arrangement

2010-03-11T00:15:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Complaint accuses site of improperly exposing personal information</div><div><p>Two Classmates.com members have sued the well-known social networking site, accusing it of exposing members' personal information to “unknown” parties without giving a proper warning.</p><p>The suit, filed in federal court in Seattle, concerns a January 30 e-mail announcing that the site was “coming up with ways to le...

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