Filed under: Computers Facebook offers members opportunities to not only remain in contact with distant friends and meet new people with common interests, but to also voice their opinions and describe in great detail the minutiae of their daily lives. For some reason, though, people can't seem to gr...

Filed under: Computers Denise Finkel (please don't sue us), a student at The University of Albany in New York, is suing four of her former high school classmates for supposedly bullying and harassing her on Facebook. The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court, seeks damages of $3 million fro...

Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Options Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), has no qualms about executive transparency. During an appearance Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Tech Conference in San Francisco, Bartz confessed that she doesn't u...

Filed under: Computers Fair or not, you've got to be very careful what you post online these days. Schools, employers, and everyone else is probably going to check out what you choose to share on social networking sites like Facebook. View Poll Sixteen-year-old Kimberley Swann learned this the hard ...

Peter Kirwan: "[H]ow does the Mail’s attack dog coverage [of Facebook] square with its demographics? ... Facebook is now the Britain’s second most-visited website after Google UK. As Hitwise attests, social networking sites now account for over 10% of all Internet visits. This is one hell o...

Image via CrunchBase I took last week off, and it was a big week for Facebook watchers. Facebook decided to change its terms of service, putting its millions of users on notice that Facebook owns their data and isn't planning any opt-out mechanism. Now, to many observers, including Chris Brogan and ...

Filed under: Computers, MySpace Alright Christians and Catholics, you know what time it is. It's Lent time! Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season, which, for the uninitiated out there, is a period of fasting and sacrifice meant to remind the faithful of the 40 days and ...

Filed under: Computers Yesterday, Facebook ruffled the feathers on many of its users by issuing a new Terms of Service, or TOS, which some believed gave the site permission to use any content -- profiles, status updates, commentary -- posted on the site perpetually (even if Facebook members deleted ...

There’s a theory called Dunbar’s Number that suggests there’s an upper limit to the amount of relationships we can maintain. If you’re interested in networking, this should be an issue. That number, for the record, is 150. Derek Halpern asked me how I dealt with that issue, a...

These are my notes from Dawn Danker’s presentation “SINGing the Praises of NING” at the Oklahoma Technology Association (OTA) on 11 February 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. My heart is with kids and with educators - background as an early childhood educator, - helpi...