Cody Taylor

A wave of companies are aiming to give consumers new ways to tap into social networks.

theodp writes “The official White House Blog called the move WhiteHouse 2.0 as the Obama administration unveiled its membership in a trio of the social-networking leaders: Facebook (157,606 fans and counting), MySpace (174,817 friends and counting) and Twitter (34,612 followers and counting).”

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theodp writes “How’d you like a job where you get fired if you DON’T view porn at work? Newsweek reports on Facebook’s internal police force of 150 staffers who are charged with regulating users’ decorum, hunting spammers and working with actual law-enforcement agencies to help solve crimes. Part hall monitors, part vice cops, the ,000-a-year ‘porn cops’ also keep Facebook safe for corporate advertisers.”

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A wave of companies are aiming to give consumers new ways to tap into social networks.

theodp writes “The WSJ reports that the controversial practice of framing seems to be making a comeback on the Web. Big sites like Digg, Facebook, Ask.com and StumbleUpon have all begun framing links recently, joining the likes of Google, which employs the technique for Image Search. Long ago, Jakob Nielsen argued that ‘frames break the fundamental user model of the web page,’ but, today’s practitioners contend, ‘it’s a feature, not a bug,’ and say it provides publishers with massive distribution they wouldn’t otherwise have.”

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Facebook has shut down a Ku Klux Klan group set up by schoolchildren in the Isle of Man. The ‘Isle of Man KKK’ page urged members to cleanse the island of newcomers. Almost 100 youngsters had subscribed to ‘Keep the Isle of Man white and free from foreigners’ which carried a picture of a hooded Ku Klux Klan member.

StudiVZ is a Facebook-style operation and it’s Germany’s largest web-based social networking site. With the European Parliament elections in sight, the website recently opened up to established political parties for election campaigning. Not for all parties though, as they chose to ban the Pirate Party.

FORT MONROE, Va. – You don’t often hear a three-star general using the word “friend” as a verb.

Imagine walking into a meeting and encountering not just your current co-workers, but all your colleagues and managers from jobs past, your spouse, your college drinking buddies, your Senior Prom date. It’s not a nightmare, it’s Facebook.

There are a lot of tools, scripts and addons which can make your stay at facebook more fun and a bit less comprehensive. From downloading whole facebook albums to posted videos, these tools cover almost everything. I’ve combined a list of the tools that are actually helpful, skipped the spam.