Peter Warden analyzed the user profile data and friend settings from more than 200 million Facebook profiles, and found that they naturally segmented themselves into seven regional groups, based on the… Read more »
According to statistics from Hitwise, an increasing number of visits to news and media web sites are coming from Facebook, which has been promoting itself as a place where users can… Read more »
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has opened a new investigation into Facebook’s privacy controls based on a complaint from a user about the way the social network changed its privacy settings… Read more »
A survey done by Microsoft in conjunction with Data Privacy Day on Thursday found that 70 percent of HR professionals have rejected a job candidate because of information they found about… Read more »
Google has put together an official “Social Web” team that consists of some of the most prominent advocates of open standards for social networks. But will that help the company “get”… Read more »
Two of Facebook’s venture capital investors told the DTD conference in Germany that the social network has no plans to go public in the near term — meaning 2010 — that… Read more »
A group of journalists has agreed to “prove” how useless Twitter and Facebook are by reporting only news they receive through those services for five days. But this is a farce… Read more »