Facebook test for Cambridge entrants
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Cambridge University admissions tutor admits checking applicants' Facebook profiles
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Social-networking site will launch premium services next year. Among possibilities: helping recruiters do "back door" reference checks. Photo: Staffing executive uses LinkedIn.
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Invited testers evaluate 'next generation' network that allows friends to edit friends.
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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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By Dave Tompkins  LEXINGTON - Social networking, a new term for online personal sites like MySpace and Facebook, is unfamiliar to most people, but Lexington school Superintendent Brent McArdle is committed to educating parents, students and teachers to its dangers.
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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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Account suspended following complaints A Liberal Democrat MP suffered the online humiliation of having his Facebook account suspended after the social networking site decided he "wasn't real".â¦
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Last year's A-level students offer this year's candidates advice on passing January exams.
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MySpace profile:   No, just Facebook, and that only since I've been done with school - profiles take up too much time for someone who intends to finish homework.    What song is in your MySpace profile?    N/A.
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Seeking new subscribers, Match.com is testing a Facebook app, considering a hookup with MySpace.
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New social networking site lets users share photos, videos, and more.
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College parties met business e-mail on Wednesday as Facebook said it is adding its social-networking platform to Research In Motion Ltd.&#39;s BlackBerry devices.T-Mobile will be the first carrier to build a Facebook application into the BlackBerries it sells, but BlackBerry users on any network will be able to download the application starting later Wednesday, Facebook Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering Dustin Moskovitz said in a keynote address at the CTIA Wireless IT&#160;and Entertainment show in San Francisco.In the keynote, Moskovitz demonstrated taking a photo with a BlackBerry Curve device, adding tags to it and posting it to Facebook without even starting up the Facebook application. Other features include the ability to set special ringtones for Facebook events and invite friends to join Facebook through BlackBerry e-mail. But it&#39;s the open nature of Facebook&#39;s platform, which allows third parties to add new applications, that sets the company apart, Moskovitz said.The tie-up brings together the highest profile social-networking player, with almost 50 million active users, and an enterprise mobile pioneer vying for market share against Microsoft, Palm, Symbian, Apple, and other device and OS vendors. Executives of the two companies met at the CTIA Wireless Show in March in Orlando and agreed to work together, Moskovitz said. Openness is the key factor they had in common, he said.Starting from a base of thousands of colleges and high schools, Facebook last year opened its network to anyone, and members over 35 years old are the fastest-growing segment, Moskovitz said. RIM has its roots in corporate e-mail tied to specialized enterprise servers so the partnership could help Facebook grow right where it&#39;s catching up.The announcement came amid reports on Wednesday that&#160;Google and Microsoft are wooing Facebook.Facebook also announced a few other advances in the mobile arena, where it expects to have 4 million active users by the end of this month. There are Facebook services available on most major U.S. and Canadian carriers, and Moskovitz announced its first carrier deal outside North America, with O2 (U.K.) Ltd.One extension announced Wednesday lets users add information from third-party Facebook applications as a box in their mobile profiles. As an example, Moskovitz showed a user&#39;s profile that listed two causes he supports. Another extension lets organizations text-message Facebook members to send a text message in support of a cause. The member&#39;s support is immediately reflected on Facebook on the Web, he said.
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By Lindenberger, Michael  The popularity of social networking Web sites is shedding light on the increasing complexities of policing student behavior on campus while respecting their rights to privacy and free speech.
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Fellow students' Facebook pages reveal Benzir Bhutto's son to be a popular student who had clearly been looking forward to starting his degree
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Facebook, an online community now restricted mostly to high school and college students, will soon throw its doors wide open and welcome millions of Internet users currently left standing at the gates.
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With the Facebook phenomenon continuing to capture the imagination of consumers, broadcast television networks, and a number of ISVs, SuccessFactors, a talent-management SaaS (software as a service) provider, unveiled ULTRA, the latest version of its performance and talent management suite, which now links to Facebook profiles.At the end of last year, WorkLight, a Web 2.0 software developer, launched WorkBook, the actual Facebook application that will be used by WorkLight to facilitate corporate communications and knowledge sharing in a secure environment.Last week, many television viewers watched as the ABC network partnered with Facebook in its coverage of the New Hampshire primary.Now it is SuccessFactors' turn. The company is a SaaS powerhouse in talent management, and it has more than 2 million subscribers in 156 countries.SuccessFactors is using Facebook to allow a richer employee profile that goes beyond the structured data that is typically captured in a HCM (human capital management) service, according to Jim Holinchek, a senior analyst with Gartner.Rob Bernstein, global vice president of product marketing and product management at SuccessFactors, agrees with Holinchek?s assessment. ?It also blurs the line between enterprise and consumer by linking between employee profiles and Facebook profiles,? added Bernstein.From a management perspective, the biggest change in SuccessFactors? service probably comes from ULTRA?s new integrated capabilities. No matter where in the suite an HR or department manager is working, he or she can switch to other suite components.?In the past, managers would have to switch between applicant tracking systems, learning management and performance management, for example; now ULTRA has a single footprint,? said Bernstein.The ULTRA release also includes a new drag-and-drop UI, as well as the ability for users to generate their own content such as to-do lists. It also allows HR or facilities managers to plot and move locations of employees and equipment on a floor plan.Tagging will allow users to add to their own profile, said Bernstein,. For example, if an employee speaks a foreign language, they can be tagged with that information to enhance collaboration and, ultimately, company productivity.The integration of Facebook into ULTRA is a relatively new phenomenon, said Holinchek, and while it is true that the formal organizational structure does not necessarily reflect how work gets done, Holincheck said customers and vendors are still working to understand cases where this type of integration makes sense.?Customers are trying to understand what the ROI is from the investment,? said Holinchek.The Ultra release is compatible with Flex, Flash, and AJAX.ULTRA is shipping now.
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Oxford and Cambridge universities are to overhaul their undergraduate recruitment strategies