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Twitter Fuels Moldovan Anti-Communist Riots

Apr 8, 2009 2:55 AM CDT

Twitter Fuels Moldovan Anti-Communist Riots

Moldovan youth use social networking to mobilize against election result

(Newser) - Thousands of young Moldovans have been using Twitter and other social networking sites to mobilize against the Communist Party's election victory, the New York Times reports. A crowd of some10,000 young activists, accusing the government of vote-rigging in Sunday's race, clashed with riot police outside the country's parliament yesterday,...

New Site Helps Control
Your Digital Legacy

Apr 7, 2009 5:14 PM CDT

New Site Helps Control Your Digital Legacy

(Newser) - How much is your digital self worth to you? At least one new website is betting it’s enough that you might want to pass on that value after you die, Mashable reports. Legacy Locker, which launches today, allows you to designate caretakers to take control of your YouTube videos,...

Facebook's Utopian Dream Hides Something Sinister

GLOSSIES

Apr 6, 2009 4:40 PM CDT

Facebook's Utopian Dream Hides Something Sinister

(Newser) - The recent scrap over Facebook’s privacy policy seems to be at odds with the site’s friendly, familial face, Vanessa Grigoriadis writes in New York. But the company’s aborted move to claim ownership of user content in perpetuity reveals a vague something about its ambitions. “Facebook’s...

Campus Cops Track Facebook for Lawbreakers

Apr 6, 2009 4:10 AM CDT

Campus Cops Track Facebook for Lawbreakers

Police have gathered intel on the cyberbeat for years

(Newser) - As teenagers embrace social networking, campus cops have started using Facebook and MySpace to prevent brawls, monitor gangs, and—in one case—identify an armed robber based on clothing he wore in his profile picture. Officers assigned to the cyberbeat regularly scour thousands of students' pages, many of which flaunt...

Google Near Deal to Acquire Twitter: Insiders

Apr 3, 2009 7:00 AM CDT

Google Near Deal to Acquire Twitter: Insiders

Two insiders put price well above $250 million

(Newser) - Google is in the last stages of acquiring Twitter for a price well above the microblogging site's recent $250 million valuation, reports industry blog TechCrunch, citing anonymous sources. Twitter recently rejected a $500 million offer from Facebook—although much of that price was in stock that may be overvalued. A...

Facebook Should
'Unfriend' CEO

OPINION

Apr 2, 2009 1:50 PM CDT

Facebook Should 'Unfriend' CEO

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg has made mistakes in the past 6 weeks “that would have led to any normal CEO's firing,” Owen Thomas writes for Gawker, and the Facebook CEO's case should be no different. His three strikes: a privacy-shredding “terms of service disaster,” an “awful redesign,...

Got a Minute?
See Forrest Run
—on YouTube

Apr 2, 2009 9:26 AM CDT

Got a Minute? See Forrest Run —on YouTube

Condensed versions of Gump, Kill Bill popular online

(Newser) - Hate sitting through long movies? YouTube is your friend. One-minute remakes of Forrest Gump and Kill Bill, shot by British college students in one take, are getting lots of attention, the Telegraph reports. In the 4 weeks since it was posted, the Gump short has racked up 1.5 million...

Cowell Not a Fan
of Celeb Twittering

Apr 2, 2009 8:20 AM CDT

Cowell Not a Fan of Celeb Twittering

'Why would you want to?' he asks on the air

(Newser) - Always one to judge, Simon Cowell is going after fellow celebrities who are hooked on Twitter, the Daily Telegraph reports. "It's like phoning someone randomly whose number you don't even have and saying: 'Hi, it's Simon, I went out with my family this weekend,'" he said. But maybe...

Facebook Shakeup Renews Talk of Public Offering

Mar 31, 2009 7:30 PM CDT

Facebook Shakeup Renews Talk of Public Offering

(Newser) - Facebook today announced another big departure from its executive ranks, fueling speculation that a move to go public is gaining traction, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company's chief financial officer, Gideon Yu, is leaving, and Facebook is searching for a replacement who has experience at a public company, the...

Another Twitter Knockoff, This One for Moms

Mar 28, 2009 5:39 PM CDT

Another Twitter Knockoff, This One for Moms

(Newser) - The concept of Twitter, widely copied in the US and abroad, has found a home at a mommy-centric website, the Wall Street Journal reports. The site Today’s Mama hosts a new microblog called “Connect," which, unlike Twitter, allows users to join groups by region or topic....

I Say, Old Chap, Big Brother Is Watching Twitter

Mar 25, 2009 9:53 AM CDT

I Say, Old Chap, Big Brother Is Watching Twitter

UK government weighs monitoring social sites for security threats

(Newser) - The British government wants to keep an eye on what people are doing on Facebook. On the lookout for terrorist plots, the Home Office has provoked an outcry from civil libertarians by floating a plan to track users of social networking sites, which were previously free of government monitoring, reports...

Users Push Facebook
to Tweak Redesign

Mar 25, 2009 6:05 AM CDT

Users Push Facebook to Tweak Redesign

Backlash prompts changes to unpopular new features

(Newser) - Facebook is giving its redesign a redesign in response to a chorus of user complaints, the Wall Street Journal reports. Users griped that the Twitter-like real-time feed featured in the new format was crowding out the information they really wanted to see. A company blog acknowledged the negative feedback and...

John Picked Twitter Over Jen

Mar 24, 2009 9:59 AM CDT

John Picked Twitter Over Jen

Jen dumped beau over his Twitter addiction

(Newser) - Blame Twitter for Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer's most recent breakup. The actress dumped her on-again-off-again beau over his obsession with the site, the Telegraph reports. “Jen was fuming. There he was, telling her he didn’t have time for her and yet his page was filled with Twitter...

In Job Hunt,
Tech Boosts
Old-School
Networking

OPINION

Mar 18, 2009 4:13 PM CDT

In Job Hunt, Tech Boosts Old-School Networking

Sites like Monster aren't getting people jobs

(Newser) - The best way to get back into the workforce is both time-tested and cutting-edge: networking. Facebook, LinkedIn, and even Twitter are taking the place of the old-fashioned phone call, Farhad Manjoo writes for Slate: "The most forward-looking job seekers have all but abandoned job-listing sites in favor of...

Facebook Changes
Irk Users—Again

Mar 18, 2009 12:56 PM CDT

Facebook Changes Irk Users—Again

Twitter-esque feed makes site jumbled, members complain

(Newser) - The latest changes to Facebook are barely a week old and are already prompting the ire of users, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Updates from friends now appear on the homepage in a real-time, Twitter-esque feed, which users complain crowds out more important messages, like friend requests. A user group,...

Facebook Can Sabotage Maturity

OPINION

Mar 15, 2009 4:40 AM CDT

Facebook Can Sabotage Maturity

Try shedding old skins with 450 friends watching

(Newser) - William Faulkner would love Facebook, where the past lives on amid its photo- and friend-filled pages. Adult appreciate the nostalgia trip to reconnect with old friends—but what about young people growing up with Facebook? Can they shed their pasts and reinvent themselves while old friends follow their every move?...

For Its 1st Birthday, Hulu Gets Social Networking

Mar 12, 2009 1:22 PM CDT

For Its 1st Birthday, Hulu Gets Social Networking

Video site also vows to add more content

(Newser) - To mark its first anniversary, Hulu is launching friends lists, most popular rankings, and more content—including show archives and classic cartoons and movies, CNET reports. But staying innovative isn't easy for a new media outlet with old media bosses. The website, which is owned by NBC and News Corp....

Laid-Off, Many Turn to Blogging

Mar 10, 2009 1:30 PM CDT

Laid-Off, Many Turn to Blogging

Recently laid-off vent, share leads online

(Newser) - As layoffs soar, job seekers are turning to blogs to connect with others in the same boat and share their adventures in unemployment, the Wall Street Journal reports. For many professionals, blogging helps make sense of the sudden changes a layoff brings. "It's difficult to see your own progress,...

Social Networking Now Trumps Email: Nielsen

Mar 10, 2009 5:47 AM CDT

Social Networking Now Trumps Email: Nielsen

Social networking explosion attracting users but not advertisers

(Newser) - Social networking has become more popular than email—but that popularity hasn't translated into profitability, a new Nielsen study finds. Social networking "member communities" such as Facebook are now the most popular Internet activity, according to Nielsen's figures, attracting 67% of global Internet users and still growing fast. Email...

I Hate Facebook;
You Should Too

OPINION

Mar 9, 2009 6:58 PM CDT

I Hate Facebook; You Should Too

(Newser) - Facebook is a soul-sucking enterprise that can steal away your dependable wife and connect you with people you'd rather avoid—or happily forget, Matt Labash writes in the Weekly Standard. Users of the “stultifying” and “mind-numbing” site have “a reality-show star's unquenchable thirst for broadcasting all the...