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Tag Archives: Facebook

03.18.09 / Hulu Amps Up Social Networking Features

Now the number two video sharing site behind YouTube.com after a year in existence, Hulu has embraced the social networking paradigm fully with Hulu Friends, a feature that Hulu hopes will increase the “community aspects” of watching television programs online.  … Read more »

03.11.09 / New Facebook Home Page Update Takes a Big Jump Into the Stream

Not content to let microblogging site Twitter control the stream—that real-time flow of status update and “what are you doing?” information ranging from the mundane to the pertinent, the silly to the sublime—Facebook is updating its user home pages to … Read more »

03.2.09 / Facebook Turns to Users to Help Shape Terms of Use Policies

Reeling from recent user backlash against changes in its terms of use policies that suggested Facebook owned its users data to do with it as it saw fit—including the data of former users—Facebook, after rescinding the changes in its terms … Read more »

02.17.09 / What's All the Fuss About Twitter?

I first joined Facebook in 2004 when the social networking site was opened up to colleges in the Boston area.  I learned about the site from friends and created an account to see what Facebook was.  At first I didn’t … Read more »

02.11.09 / Murder Mystery? Check Facebook.

Maybe officials should watch Facebook more closely to solve and prevent crimes and murders.  Cnet reported nineteen-year-old Craig Ramsden changed his Facebook status to “I’m twisted at home. My head’s up my *** .  I feel like killing some1 need … Read more »

02.6.09 / Keeping an Eye on the Battle of the Social Networking Titans

In a fantastic piece written for Social Media Insider, Catharine P. Taylor notes that according to an interview with Charlie Rose, MySpace co-founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson view Facebook—arguably MySpace’s biggest rival in the social networking sphere—as more of … Read more »

02.3.09 / Facebook Plans to Take Advertising to the Next Level

With 222 million unique visitors in December 2008—twice as many as social networking rival MySpace—Facebook is poised this year to take its advertising model to the next level, reports Ad Age. It’s rare for a site as large as Facebook … Read more »

01.27.09 / Will IMVU Replace Facebook?

There’s no argument that social networking is not just a fad, but a tool that is changing the way people communicate, interact and do business.  Currently, MySpace remains the number one social networking site over Facebook in the U.S. but … Read more »

01.27.09 / Pope Goes Web 2.0, but Warns Flock of the Dangers of Too Much Facebooking

One of the world’s oldest and most widely recognized organized religions leaped into the deep end of the Web 2.0 pool last week, as Pope Benedict XVI unveiled his own YouTube channel.  The channel will broadcast the Pope’s speeches and … Read more »

01.5.09 / Social Networking is Facebook's Worst Nightmare

Some of the biggest appeals of social networking are freedom of speech and the ease at which friends can communicate and share.  It is the means my friends and I use to share photos, plan events, and stay in touch.  … Read more »