Social Networks Stories for 2009

Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names 301
Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts 362
Vimeo Sued For Audio Infringement 85
The State of Social Gaming On the iPhone 33
EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy 103
Facebook Mafiosi Go To the Mattresses vs. Zynga 102
Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments 806
Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses 170
Microsoft Acknowledges Theft of Code From Plurk 215
Microsoft Steals Code From Microblogging Startup 315
Facebook Founder's Pictures Go Public 219
WordPress.com Implements the Twitter API 39
Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface 446
Treading the Fuzzy Line Between Game Cloning and Theft 235
Facebook Axes "Beacon," Donates $9.5M To Settle Suit 71
Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them 233
Facebook ID Probe Shows Things Getting Worse 174
Iran Slows Internet Access Before Student Protests 289
Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction 251
DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours 129
Iranian Crackdown Goes Global 313
Facebook Putting Batteries On-Board Its Servers 155
Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance 645
Robbery Suspect Cleared By Facebook Alibi 160
Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users 251
Going Head To Head With Genius On Playlists 174
Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed 106
Scams and Social Gaming 95
Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead 292
MySpace Trying To Regain Lost Ground With Games and Music 76
MS's "Lifeblogging" Camera Enters Mass Production 119
Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law 494
Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death 266
Facebook User Arrested For a Poke 394
Is Cloud Computing the Hotel California of Tech? 250
The First Geek Wedding At a LinuxFest 93
MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions 508
Facebook Will Shut Down Beacon To Settle Lawsuit 101
Happiness May Be Catching 176
Variety, Social Aspects More Important To Game Success Than Graphics, Plot 236
Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server 113
Twitter To Add Money-Making Features 89
Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code 304
Cryptographic Tools To Keep You Hidden On Facebook 148
Trapped Girls Call For Help On Facebook 380
We're In the Midst of a Literacy Revolution 431
After Canadian Prodding, Facebook To Change Privacy Policy 64
Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity 205
Twitter Developing Location-Based API 90
Schneier On a Generation Gap In Privacy 166
No Social Media In These College Stadiums 265
Facebook Faces the Canadian Privacy Commissioner 140
Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter 54
Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders 587
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed 71
Opera Being Composed On Twitter 99
Twitter, Facebook DDoS Attack Targeted One User 205
Twitter Offline Due To DDoS 398
US Marine Corps Bans Social Networking Sites 202
Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts 451
Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission 260
Of Science and Choice In Online Dating 311
Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit 330
UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook 628
Facebook Violates Canadian Privacy Law 179
Analyst, 15, Creates Storm After Trashing Twitter 381
Facebook and the Merging of Games and Social Networks 40
Facebook Sued Over Data Access 73
Judge Tentatively Dismisses Case Against Lori Drew 420
The Twitter Book 88
Of Catty Rants and Copyrights 339
The Battle Between Google and Facebook 202
Social Networks As Gaming Platforms 52
A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs 107
US Open Government Initiative Enters Phase Three 572
Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? 1354
Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts 836
You're (Probably) Not Going To Be a Pro Blogger 120
A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64 177
Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay? 168
Twitter "Twitpocalypse" Snags Mac, iPhone Apps 160
Dell Makes $3 Million From Twitter Sales 76
Online Vigilantes, Or "Crowdsourced Justice" 339
One-Tweet Wonders 170
Most Blogs Now Abandoned 290
Time On Social Networks Almost Doubles In a Year 87
Dot-Communism Is Already Here 554
World's Oldest Blogger Dies At 97 74
Guatemalan Twitter User Arrested For "Inciting Panic" 76
Social Networking Behavioral Agreements At Work? 326
Mapping Hidden Twitter Data For Epidemiology 75
White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter 144
Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE 199
The In-House Decency Patrol At Facebook 157
The Sims 3 To Mesh With Social Networks 25
Social Networking Sites Getting Risky For Recruiting 227
Crowd-Source Translation Software For Free Content? 62
Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic 383
How To Have an Online Social Life When You're Dead 187
Cybersquatting and Social Media 73
Telstra Lays Down Law On Social Media 78
Digg Backs Down On DiggBar 180
Academics To Predict Next Twitter and Its Pitfalls 150
Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College 284
Goldman Sachs Tries To Shut Down Dissident Blogger 161
How Facebook Runs Its LAMP Stack 111
Sharing Lives As Stories On the Web 30
How To Build an Openfire Chat Server On Debian 5 108
Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report 779
Facebook Cuts Off Pirate Bay Links 137
Organized Online, Students Storm Gov't. Buildings In Moldova 199
IPv6 Over Social Networks 102
The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook 359
Proposal Suggests UK Students Study Wikipedia and Twitter 252
Juror Tweets Could Create Mistrial 148
JaikuEngine Gets Open Sourced 41
Court Demands Private Facebook Data 113
Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status 653
Is It Worth Developing Good Games For the Web? 82
LimeWire Brings Darknets To All 126
Facebook Nearly Added Twitter To Friends List 124
Facebook Vs. Spammers, Round Two 57
Linked In Or Out? 474
Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good 450
Twitter Leads Social Networks In Downtime 175
Facebook Reverts ToS Change After User Uproar 260
Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout 409
Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More 689
Facebook's New Terms of Service 426
A Quantitative Study of How Memes Spread 219
Federal Officials and YouTube Nearing a Deal 80
Web of Trust For Scientific Publications 125
Social Networking Spurs Activism Against Repression 303
Personality Testing For Employment 581
Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China 87
Google Researchers Warn of Automated Social Info Sharing 124
Twitter Hack Details Revealed 222
Researcher Says Social Networks Link Terrorists 212
Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire 904