Social Networks Stories for 2010

Google Patenting 'Exponential' Friend Spamming 64
How Zynga's CityVille Drew 70 Million Players In Less Than a Month 101
Old Facebook Apps Still Plunder Your Privacy 101
How To Be Popular On Facebook, Quantified 97
The Wrong Way To Weaponize Social Media 90
Can Zuckerberg Leap the Great Firewall of China? 102
Yahoo! Says Delicious To Get the Boot, Not the Axe 84
Thief Posts His Photo To Facebook Victim's Account 222
TIME Names Mark Zuckerberg Person of Year 317
The Woman Who's Making Your Privacy Her Business 120
US Trials Off Track Over Juror Internet Misconduct 405
Google +1: Screenshot and Details 73
The New Reality of Gaming 122
Is Twitter Censoring Wikileaks Trends? 191
Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages 211
Social Media Accounts Part of Deceased Oklahomans' Estates 120
Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You 273
George W. Bush Live From Facebook 372
Hacker Sends Out Fake Tsunami Warning On Twitter 100
The Ethics of Social Games 75
Facebook To Own the Word "Face" 311
HTTPS Everywhere Gets Firesheep Protection 77
Open-Source Social Network Diaspora Goes Live 266
Did an Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages In 2003? 128
Facebook Messaging Blocks Links 143
Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone 137
A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp 273
Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch? 207
New Facebook Messaging System Announced 240
Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers 481
Saudi Arabia Bans Facebook 227
UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus' 213
Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank 496
RockMelt — Right Browser, Wrong Platform? 48
Google Asks Users To Complain Against Facebook 218
Sex Drugs and Texting 287
Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB 340
Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account 166
Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt' 185
Bloglines Shutdown Avoided 24
The Queen Joins Facebook 155
Lamebook Sues Facebook Over Trademark Infringement 108
Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books 120
Cook's Magazine Claims Web Is Public Domain 565
Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped 474
Cisco Social Software Lets You "Stalk" Customers 123
Google Settles Buzz Privacy Suit 165
Truthy Project Uncovers Political Astroturfing On Twitter 99
Firesheep Author Reflects On Wild Week 229
Kindle Allowing Chinese Unfettered Access To Web 138
Facebook Punishes Devs Who Shared User IDs 71
Google Wave Creator Quits, Joins Facebook 191
UK Police To Get Facebook Lessons 63
Manchester's Self-Described 'Internet Troll' Jailed For Offensive Web Posts 321
Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? 200
Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool 357
FarmVille Now Worth More Than EA 344
MySpace Revamps Site To Recapture the Magic 137
Firefox Extension Makes Social-Network ID Spoofing Trivial 185
Is Zynga Trying To Patent Virtual Currency? 89
Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users 196
On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy 123
Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy 219
Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter 147
Man Served Restraining Order Via Facebook 29
The Case For Apple Buying Facebook 255
Zuckerberg's Side of 'The Social Network' 217
How To Tame the Social Network At Work 130
Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms 95
The Intimate Social Graph 21
Facebook, Microsoft Team Up Against Google 297
Government Admits Spying Via Facebook 240
UK Police Force Posts All Its Calls On Twitter 66
NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls 193
Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration 255
Of 1.2 Billion Twitter Posts, 71% Are Ignored 192
North Korea Opens .kp Sites On the Internet 175
Reuters Ends Anonymous Comments 159
Lighthearted Facebook Friends Could Make You Join NAMBLA Group 178
New Class of Malware Will Steal Behavior Patterns 73
Facebook Implements 'Download Your Profile' Option 114
Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains 354
Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts 300
Facebook Patents Location Social Networking 120
Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion 379
Lawrence Lessig Reviews The Social Network 223
The Science of Truthiness 180
Twitter To Start Selling Followers 95
Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted 305
Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life 223
Exploits Propagated Via Social Media Increase 28
Facebook, Skype Getting Really Friendly 119
Inside Facebook's Infrastructure 77
"Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. 554
Attack Targets LinkedIn Users With Fake Contact Requests 122
Twitter Hit With Second Worm In a Week 97
Bloomberg Reports Facebook Building Android Smartphones 63
Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage 96
Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime 103
In Court? Be Careful What You Post On Facebook 147
Facebook Is Down 448
Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? 321
Security Lessons Learned From the Diaspora Launch 338
Interpol Chief's Identity Spoofed On Facebook 64
Twitter Closes Hole After Attack Hits Up To 500K Users 135
Twitter Suffers Web Interface Exploit 165
Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter 253
Why Twitter Should Stay Out of the App Business 76
Security Concerns Paramount After Early Reviews of Diaspora Code 206
Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed 306
Twitter Gets a Tweak 57
Google CEO Confirms Social Integration 96
Social Media Can Help You Fake Your Own Death 146
Burglary Ring Used Facebook Places To Find Targets 152
Salesforce Uses Chatter To Monitor Employees 82
Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time 159
The Real 'Stuff White People Like' 286
Narcissists, Insecure People Flock To Facebook 280
Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access 141
White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack 77
Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls 63
Google To Pay $8.5 Million In Buzz Privacy Settlement 58
Spammers Attack Apple's Ping Social Network 85
2010 May Be the First Year YouTube Turns a Profit 89
Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products 390
Facebook To Add Remote Logout 145
Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework 539
Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? 271
Target To Sell Facebook "Credits" As Gift Cards 96
Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV 579
Foursquare-Style Checking In For Couch Potatoes 86
Germany To Grant Privacy At the Workplace 450
North Korea Looking For Friends On Facebook 183
The Story of Dealing With 33 Attorneys General 172
Google Wave and the Difficulty of Radical Change 179
Gaming Foursquare With 9 Lines of Perl 84
Facebook Launches Location Based Product 130
How the Internet Is Changing Language 295
Facebook Takes On FourSquare 220
75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email 278
"Dislike" Button Scam Hits Facebook Users 179
Eben Moglen Calls To Free the Cloud 173
Monetizing Free-To-Play Gaming Models 164
Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus 144
Drunk Driver Mugshots Featured On Facebook 321
Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos 145
Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? 284
Sharing the Perseids With #Meteorwatch 55
Could Crowdsourcing Help the SEC Detect Fraud? 148
Schneier's Revised Taxonomy of Social Data 28
Sifting Authorities From Celebrities On Twitter 86
Buried By The Brigade At Digg 624
Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity 591
Why Wave Failed 350
Google Kills Wave Development 327
Vonage Makes Free Facebook Phone Call App 115
Xfire Purchased, Team Leaving 161
Beautiful Data 18
'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!' v2.0 155
Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? 142
Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? 293
100 Million Facebook Pages Leaked On Torrent Site 163
Chatroulette To Log IP Addresses, Take Screenshots 194
Electronic Arts, THQ Look To Microtransactions 83
Facebook Adds Delete Account Option 249
Contextual Ads Based On Images 66
Cow Clicker Boils Down Facebook Games 237
Facebook User Satisfaction Is 'Abysmal' 289
Attackers Using Social Networks For Botnet Control 40
The Hell Known As Internet Screening Services 557
Jolicloud 1.0 Has an HTML5 UI 99
Girl Seeks Help On Facebook During Assault 417
Leaving a Comment? That'll Be 99 Cents, and Your Name 377
Twitter Says Americans Are Happier In the Morning 88
Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets 326
New Google Research On Social Networks 95
Zynga Investment May Herald Google Games 186
China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest 274
Internet Censorship Arms Race Gets New Weapon From Georgia Tech 75
Germany Takes Legal Steps Against Facebook 138
Twitter Throttling Hits Third-Party Apps 119
'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros 191
Online Poll-Based Party Seeks Election Win 117
BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans 262
Diaspora On Schedule, One Month In 90
"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family 234
Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers 494
New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes 287
China Bans Military Personnel From Blogging 82
US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot 319
Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy 371
Twitter To Establish Information Security Program 72
Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security 392
Study Finds Google Is More Trusted Than Traditional Media 155
Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter 460
Google Wave Out of Beta 255
Utah Attorney General Tweets Execution Order 556
Thailand Shuts Down 43,000 More Websites 166
Flock Switches To Chromium For New Beta 154
Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball 142
AOL Dumps $1.2 Billion Worth of Acquisitions 122
USPTO Lets Amazon Patent the "Social Networking System" 265
FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England 329
Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm 364
Guggenheim To Showcase YouTube Videos 66
Twitter Sells "Trending Topics" To Advertisers 67
Researchers Create Social Engineering IRC Bot 66
New York Times Bans Use of Word "Tweet" 426
Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? 268
Military Taps Social Networking To Hunt Insurgents 69
Plotting a Coup In the Internet Age 183
University Networks Block Student Project 167
PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies 319
Yahoo Treading Carefully Before Exposing More Private Data 107
Mars500 Mission Begins 235
Anti-Bieber Software Maker Gets Death Threats 14
Clickjacking Worm Exploits Facebook "Like" Feature 124
Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page 677
Congressman Steps Up Pressure On Google, Facebook 120
NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3-D Model of Spill 102
Where Were You When PLATO Was Born? 162
Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke 631
A Brief History of Social Games 33
Why Online Privacy Is Broken 220
High-Altitude Balloon Tweets Earth 49
Facebook Bug Lets Hackers Delete Friends 89
Food Bloggers Giving Restaurant Owners Heartburn 311
A Contrarian Stance On Facebook and Privacy 160
Facebook, Others Giving User Private Data To Advertisers 154
Penn. AG Corbett Subpoenas Twitter For Bloggers' Names 205
YouTube Blocked In Pakistan 299
Australian Women Fight Over "Geekgirl" Trademark 187
Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban Over Mohammed Images 949
Google Wave Now Open To All 180
Facebook, Zynga Sign Long-Term Virtual Currency Deal 124
Duke To Shut Down Usenet Server 273
Open Source Utilities For Facebook Privacy 154
Software Recognizes Sarcastic Tweets 168
Is Diaspora the Future of Free Software Funding? 146
Facebook Throws Privacy Advocates a Bone 126
Facebook Calls All-Hands Meeting On Privacy 302
Creating a Better Facebook 295
Using Twitter Data To Approximate a Telephone Survey 68
Businesses Struggle To Control Social Networking 131
A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook 363
NASA Space Habitat Research Goes Undersea 55
Spam Causes Microsoft To Kill Newsgroups 157
Former Head of CIA Think Tank Talks Privacy, Technology 147
Church Turns To Facebook To Find Priests 286
Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" 244

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