Obama Catches Fire on Facebook
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The Internet has provided U.S. Sen. Barack Obama a rapid recruiting platform for the Illinois Democrat's fledgling presidential campaign.
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Social-networking sites are all the rage with kids. Now a lawsuit accuses the most popular one of not doing enough to protect them from predators
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Good lord, you can just type their names in! Somewhat behind the rush, it seems that at least some Oxbridge academics are getting wise to the Facebook phenomenon.â¦
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The Prophet Muhammad cartoon row in Denmark triggers an unusual dialogue on Facebook, writes the BBC's Frances Harrison.
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For students at the University of Oxford, Facebook is a great way to keep posted on gossip and parties. For campus officials, it's a new way to find &#151; and fine &#151; troublemakers.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. Sen. Barack Obama launched a new Web 2.0 campaign effort Wednesday, using LinkedIn's professional networking site to solicit comments from the network's 14 million users about business topics. Obama is posting several questions to LinkedIn's Answers service, which was launched earlier this year to let members ask questions of, and receive quick answers from, fellow users of the site. Obama's first post this morning asked users how the next president can help small businesses and entrepreneurs thrive. The post had elicited more than 200 responses after three hours on the site. For example, LinkedIn user Jon Burke advised Obama to "get technology and have a curiosity about it. Recent U.S. presidents and national politicians in general don't seem to care or know much at all about technology. The Internet and Google have become punch lines. A president who follows technology can make more informed policy decisions." Scott Pickard added that the next president should "support the development of business incubators. These 'entrepreneurial ecosystems' are great starting homes for the entrepreneur and his new venture in years one to four. The incubator lowers hurdles, mitigates risk ... and while it offers no guarantees, it does improve the odds for a successful start and graduation to a sustainable business that creates high-quality jobs while introducing new technologies and products to the marketplace." "LinkedIn Answers provides an ideal forum for political candidates and campaigns to communicate with a high-level professional audience on key business issues," said Dan Nye, CEO of LinkedIn, in a statement. "We expect candidates from all backgrounds and all levels of government, from city council races to the presidential campaign, will take advantage of LinkedIn as a highly effective online tool for reaching the business audience." Obama, who has been actively using Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook and MySpace, is leading the race for Web site visitors, according to statistics released last week by Nielsen/NetRatings. Obama had 717,000 visitors to his campaign site in July, the latest month for which numbers were available. The Obama site's total outpaced fellow Democratic candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton -- who had 437,000 visitors to her site -- and former Sen. John Edwards, who logged 348,000 unique visitors in July. Among Republicans, Fred Thompson's site ImWithFred drew the most unique visitors in July with 381,000, according to Nielsen. Since announcing his candidacy, Thompson's campaign now is redirecting traffic from ImWithFred to Fred08.com. Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani ranked second among Republicans online, with 124,000 unique visitors, according to Nielsen.
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InfoWorld - Facebook&#39;s safety controls and procedures are deficient and fail to properly protect minors from adult sexual predators in the company&#39;s social-networking site, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged Monday.
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Facebook is the latest entrant into the online video battle -- an effort to gain ground on social networking rivals.
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Facebook.com, the No. 2 U.S.  social network site that is quickly expanding beyond its  college student base, has been met with a sudden privacy  backlash by users after it made design changes this week.
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US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accuses Bill Clinton of making false statements about him.
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Users of the popular site are angry about a new feature and are organizing their protest - on Facebook
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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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When Microsoft decided to launch a viral marketing campaign around its Windows Vista operating system, it wanted a spectacle that could catch fire among Internet fans.
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By Victoria Advocate, Texas  Jun. 15--Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott initiated the first  large-scale blitz in the nation on sex offenders who have infiltrated the  popular social Web site, MySpace.com.
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ALBANY  -  State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Monday announced an investigation into the popular online social networking website Facebook after undercover investigators posing as children were allegedly solicited by sexual predators.
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ONLINE networking site Facebook has become the latest campaign tool for Labour's deputy leadership contenders.   All six candidates have apresence on the site, which has more internet traffic than eBay and nearly 500,000 users in London alone.
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Mark Halperin scores it a win for Obama, a loss for Richardson and one giant step for user generated content