- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
Millions of protesters against the outlaw Colombian group FARC gathered in more than 140 cities around the world to protest its brutal tactics and to call for the release of the estimated 3,000 hostages the group still holds. What prompted this outpouring was not a shift in the group's tactics or ev...
On Feb. 5, the MySpace Developer Platform will go live, the social networking site announced Wednesday. Software developers interested in bringing their applications to the social networking site can preregister on MySpace. "The MySpace Developer Platform will be the world's sandbox, allowing develo...
Common threads often create a trust that is virtually unbreakable. Whether based on race, sex, alumni group, hometown or affliction, the more specific these ties are, the stronger the bonds between people often become. In a sea of news sites casting wide nets to capture as many viewers as possible, ...
On Feb. 2, leading presidential candidates will have one last chance to make their pitches to young voters before Super Tuesday with the final installment of "Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue," a presidential candidate discussion hosted by MySpace and MTV. Democratic contender Hillar...
MySpace has introduced aggressive new measures to protect users -- particularly children and adolescents -- against sexual predators. Up until now, the social networking site has made incremental changes to its policies, usually in response to parental or congressional outcry. This latest set of ste...
Hillary Clinton is my friend. On MySpace, that is. If I were going to vote for the first candidate that responded to my social networking "friend" request, it would be her. Of course, that's a silly idea, but with all the hoopla over politicians using new technologies, one might ask: How has Web 2.0
Daily traffic to video-sharing sites such as YouTube has almost doubled in the past year, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Whereas only 8 percent of Internet users surveyed at the end of 2006 said they had used a video-sharing site the day ...
It's Christmas Eve, and you're probably thinking more about what you are going to open tomorrow than anything else, so I was tempted to keep this light. However, I was pulled onto a TV news program to talk about what may be the most dangerous prank of the year and I want to make sure you and your fa...
Back-to-back announcements -- first from Facebook and then Bebo -- have upped the ante in the social network application development game. Facebook, which launched its Facebook Platform for developers last May, will make its developer platform architecture available to other social networking sites ...
Users of Helio's Ocean mobile phone and Internet device now have an amped-up YouTube application built especially for their phones, the consumer-focused mobile phone company announced Wednesday. On most mobile phone and device services, users have been limited to a passive viewing experience of YouT...
Following in the footsteps of Facebook and MySpace, professional network LinkedIn announced on Monday a platform that gives third-party developers access to its application programming interfaces. The set of APIs and widgets in LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform -- dubbed "InApps," for shor...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologized to the social networking site's user base in response to a rising crescendo of complaints that its advertising platform, Beacon, is too intrusive. More importantly, Facebook is now letting users opt out of the service -- a step that it has clearly been rel...
Facebook has modified its Beacon ad program by making its off-site broadcasting capabilities more obvious to users and easier to opt out of -- at least, in some cases. However, that adjustment hasn't quelled privacy concerns on the part of users and at least one security vendor. Facebook has been tr...
ABC wants to increase its network news viewers by tapping Facebook's constituency -- a younger crowd than the usual audience for its evening news program. The social networking site, for its part, is always on the prowl for new features to keep its 56-million and growing user base happy -- and stick...
Will sending Web content to your handheld device be as simple as clicking a button? Mobile software company Bango believes so. Its new Internet-based application simplifies the process of downloading images from social networking sites to cell phones. The software appears as a Bango Button on the ho...
Loading ...
