There have been numerous ‘revolts’ on Digg (social news), hundreds of thousands of users have created numerous groups to stage protests on Facebook (social networking), and hundreds of blog posts have been written about how terrible Twitter’s service and up-time used to be and what a poor job they were doing in communicating their problems ..
If you’re on facebook, you’ve probably received a friend request from someone from years back who you never particularly liked. If you’re anything like me, you probably just accepted their request. If you’re anything like the person in this picture, you’re my new hero.
Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we’ve heard from a source with of the deal. They’ve signed a term sheet with at least one venture fund to raise a new round at a 0 million valuation. We ar
The New York Times Magazine is running a story about the rise in political activism in Egypt through sites like Facebook, which allow citizens to gather and share ideas in ways they otherwise aren’t allowed. A state-of-emergency law has been active in Egypt since 1981, which, among other things, “allows the government to ban political organizations and makes it illegal for more than five people to gather without a license from the government.” As affordable internet access has spread throughout the country, the government is having a much harder time keeping wraps on the ideas of dissidents. Blocking access to the sites isn’t a good solution for the government, because many non-dissidents use it for mundane communications. As Harvard’s Ethan Zuckerman puts it, “…doing so would alert a large group of people who they can’t afford to radicalize.”
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Google laid off full time employees for the first time ever earlier this month. But those new ex-Googlers shouldn’t be unemployed for long. Not if a pair of aggressive Facebook recuriters have their way, judging by an email they sent to an email list for former Google employees this morning:
A UK Facebook group plans to protest the government’s consultation into further communications monitoring by cc’ing Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on every one of their emails.
A man murdered his estranged wife after becoming “enraged” when she changed her marital status on Facebook to “single”. Edward Richardson, 41, of Mayfield Road, Biddulph, was found guilty of stabbing 26-year-old Sarah Richardson to death.
In the past Facebook has had its fair share of spam and phishers, but now it looks like these scammers are getting smarter by engaging in a form of identify theft.
Your college roommate is on Facebook. So are your cousins and colleagues and friends. But guess who else may find Facebook a great way to stay in touch? Some people in Sicily who know a few things about networking. Authorities are investigating groups devoted to Mafiosi.
PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python and Ruby.
