Report: Facebook threatens to ban Gawker's Denton
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After the New York digital media maven posted copious screenshots of a Facebook profile on Gawker, a blog reports that the social-networking site is ready to crack down on such violations.
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When a popular blogger revealed that Facebook had banned his account, the Web erupted in speculative chatter. But where should they really be pointing fingers?
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Blog: Parakey co-founder, newly acquired by Facebook, comments on a post requesting that the service revoke a controversial new move that makes members give details about how they know their new Facebook friends.
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Social-networking site Facebook is in  serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo  for an amount  that could approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal  reported on Thursday.
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Popular social networking site Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its Web site by the makers of Scrabble, as reported by PA.
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The price tag for Facebook, the second-largest social-networking Web site, just keeps rising. But what does that mean for MySpace, which is the No. 1? Microsoft and others are said to be considering a minority investment in Facebook that would value the three-year-old company at more than $10 billion. At least one analyst, Vijay Jayant of [...].
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Scrabble owner spells out copyright law to Facebook Hasbro Inc, which owns the US and Canadian rights to Scrabble, has asked Facebook to remove its online version "Scrabulous", Reuters reports.â¦
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It's like the Tolpuddle Martyrs all over again The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has today called on employers to reconsider outright bans that have been slapped on popular web time-killers Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.â¦
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Facebook terminated the account of conservative blogger Jon Swift because he uses a pseudonym, not a real name. But after pressure from A-list bloggers, the social network reconsidered and reinstated Swift's account.
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A closer look at the privacy issue It has recently been reported that Attorneys Generals from about a dozen US States, including Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Maryland, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania have demanded that News Corporation's social networking site MySpace voluntarily deliver a list of all sex offenders who have registered for or used the MySpace social networking service.â¦
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The sterner warnings are intended to satisfy New York State prosecutors who accused Facebook Inc. of falsely advertising itself as a safe online environment.
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About face User protests have forced social network site Facebook to radically re-design its controversial News Feed feature, which critics argue is a Godsend for stalkers.â¦
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Facebook is now taking steps to prevent some third-party applications from engaging in "inappropriate actions".
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(InfoWorld) - After an uglyÂ name-calling flapÂ last month, News Corp.'s MySpace and Photobucket will end up as part of the same company. Fox Interactive Media (FIM), the News Corp. division to which MySpace belongs, announced Wednesday it has agreed to buy Photobucket, which operates the U.S.'s most popular photo site. FIM also announced its agreement to acquire Flektor, a company that lets users edit photos and videos and embed them on Web pages. The acquisitions are expected to boost the photo and video sharing and editing capabilities of FIM's Web site network, particularly MySpace, the world's most popular social networking site. For about two weeks in April, MySpace blocked the videos and photo slideshows its users created, stored, and edited with Photobucket. The move, MySpace said, came after Photobucket knowingly violated its terms of service by encouraging MySpace users to run an ad-sponsored slideshow in their profile pages. This prompted Photobucket's CEO Alex Welch to term the action "a retrograde step." Photobucket also said MySpace never contacted it before implementing the block, essentially calling MySpace officials liars. The spat again highlighted a recurrent criticism of MySpace: that it has been reluctant to open its platform to third parties, a hallmark of the Web 2.0 mashup philosophy. MySpace grants access to its platform on a case-by-case basis to companies that request it, but doesn't have open APIs (application programming interface), something most Internet companies provide for many services. At the time of the controversy, Welch captured the essence of these objections, saying MySpace's action contradicted "the very ethos of personal and social media" as well as "an unacceptable attempt to limit the freedom of the very people who are its lifeblood -- its users." Last week, Facebook, a MySpace competitor, made a big splash when it announced it is opening up its service to external developers, a move that was seen as an attempt to capitalize on MySpace's contrasting philosophy. News Corp. and FIM executives have been candid about their misgivings over third-party services on MySpace, which they feel take advantage of the site's massive popularity. Photobucket, which lets users store photos, slide shows, videos and graphics on its servers and then link them to other Web sites, receives almost 57 percent of its upstream traffic from MySpace, Hitwise Pty Ltd. said in April. MySpace and Photobucket eventuallyÂ reached a truceÂ and MySpace lifted the ban. Shortly afterwards, rumors began flying that FIM was in the process of acquiring Photobucket. Wednesday's confirmation of the deal could be interpreted as being in line with FIM's reservations about having third parties build a business on MySpace's back, preferring instead to acquire, in this case, Photobucket, and bring it into its fold. In November 2006, MySpace had the 38.7 billion page views, the most of any site on the Internet, according to comScore Networks Inc. In March of this year, it had almost 95 million unique visitors from around the world. Meanwhile, Photobucket ranks by far as the most popular photo-sharing site in the U.S. with 41.4 percent of visits to sites in that category in March, according to Hitwise. Photobucket, founded in 2003, has 39 million registered users and ranked 34th among comScore's top 50 U.S. Web properties in March, with almost 16.8 million unique visitors. FIM didn't disclose terms of the acquisitions. The Flektor acquisition has been finalized, but the Photobucket deal still requires regulatory approvals is expected to close in the next 30 days, a FIM spokesman said via e-mail. Â
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Facebook is suing seventeen people and a Canadian Internet porn company for allegedly trying to mine the popular social networking site for its users&#39; personal details.Facebook alleges that in June servers controlled by the defendants used automated scripts to make more than 200,000 requests for personal information stored on Facebook&#39;s site. The allegations are contained in an amended lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.The company first filed suit back in June, but amended the complaint this month after obtaining court orders to identify who controlled the servers trying to access its site.Experts have warned people against publishing too much personal information on social networking sites for fear it could be collected and then abused by fraudsters.Facebook, one of the most-used social networking sites after MySpace, said the automated scripts caused error messages to be generated, but the company did not say if user information was successfully collected.Named in the suit is Istra Holdings, which controls SlickCash.com, an affiliate advertising business that offers commissions to Web publishers for referring Internet surfers to its portfolio of adult sites.It also names Brian Fabian and Josh Raskin, both of whom the suit says work at Istra in Toronto, and Ming Wu of Markham, Ontario, as well as 14 other unidentified people.Facebook said the hacking attempts cost it at least US$5,000 to investigate. The company has requested a jury trial and is seeking to bar the defendants from accessing its computer systems in the future, in addition to damages.&#160;
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook.com, a fast-growing U S social network website has sparked a privacy backlash that has quickly become one of the broadest cyber-protests ever with more than 600,000 members signing an online petition by midday yesterday.
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News Corp.'s (NWSa.N) MySpace.com is  in talks to bring the social-networking site to China with  Boston technology trade publisher International Data Group's  Chinese venture arm and former China Netcom Group Corp.  (0906.HK) Chief Executive Edward Tian, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Friday.