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Facebook And MySpace May Seal Email's Fate
News The future of email might be found on the pages of MySpace and Facebook. With tens of millions of members on their respective networks, MySpace and Facebook can wield great influence over a generation living online, either through the mobile phone...
[July 19, 2007, 11:04]
Facebook Email Privacy Has A Hole
Blog Comment Quickly, export your facebook contacts with email addresses while you can (export facebook contacts).
[January 14, 2008, 7:59]
Facebook Has Concluded. Please Disperse And Go About Your Lives.
Blog It's also capable, by itself, with no further fuss, of making everyone who clicks it unwilling ever to bother with Facebook again. If you are a megacompany planning to buy Facebook, someone considering employment with Facebook, or someone who in...
[October 4, 2007, 21:14]
Facebook: A Boon To Business Security?
News While some employers are banning staff from accessing Facebook, fearing security risks and lowered productivity, GE Commercial Finance is encouraging use of the social networking site to improve staff security practices.
[October 29, 2007, 9:25]
Facebook Locks Out Plaxo
News Social-networking site Facebook has fought off a major-league blogger's bid to extract his own contact list from the service, using a utility from rival site Plaxo, highlighting the unanswered question of who owns data associated with people's...
[January 4, 2008, 13:03]
Facebook Admits To Increased Attacks By Spammers
News The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration...
[April 22, 2008, 17:10]
UPDATE: Facebook Closes Privacy Hole
Blog Comment So, bravo Facebook. And true to form, the "contacts" function has now been reinstated, but without showing email addresses (it's now a bit like the "all friends" function). Privacy is restored.
[January 12, 2008, 23:31]
UPDATE: Facebook Closes Privacy Hole
Blog Comment I have no particular issue with Facebook. I actually quite like Facebook. The point is that Facebook had to have known about the implications when the feature was designed. I use it regularly. And yes, they do respond quickly when an issue is...
[January 12, 2008, 22:36]
Facebook Gets Open-source Enterprise App
News The open-source enterprise content management firm Alfresco has announced what it claims is the first enterprise application to use the Facebook platform. The London-based enterprise content management (ECM) company has integrated its system with...
[November 16, 2007, 10:33]
UPDATE: Facebook Closes Privacy Hole
Blog Earlier today I posted about my discovery that users of Facebook's mobile version could see all of their friends' email addresses that had been used to set up their Facebook accounts. I killed some time on the bus by logging into Facebook.
[January 12, 2008, 18:21]
Facebook Email Privacy Has A Hole
Blog Here's the text of a message I sent out to all my Facebook contacts today: Some of you show your email addresses on your Facebook profiles, some of you don't. Fair enough: that's called privacy, and that's what Facebook's privacy settings are for.
[January 12, 2008, 12:58]
Facebook Chat Is About To Land
Blog As a keen FBer, I'm quite excited about the prospect of the native Facebook chat application. I've tried out several third-party chat apps within Facebook, and none were exactly what I'd call seamless.
[April 7, 2008, 16:23]
Facebook's Statistical Uncertainty
Blog A lesson in picking and choosing statistics here: in the middle of last week, Nielsen stats showed Facebook usage was down 5 percent in the UK from December to January (although MySpace and Bebo were also down).
[February 25, 2008, 8:43]
Facebook Usage Down In UK
Blog According to Nielsen Online, via the Grauniad, Facebook saw its first dip in UK usage - around 5 percent - between December and January. Some people have jumped on this story as a marker of the decline of Facebook.
[February 21, 2008, 12:26]
UPDATE: Facebook Closes Privacy Hole
Blog Comment Man you got a bat up your ass about facebook or what! As much as i cant stand facebook i have to applaud them for reacting to the complaints and opinions of their users time and time again.and lighting fast!
[January 12, 2008, 22:05]
Facebook Is Just Protecting Its Users
Talkback I think i have to side with Facebook on this one; being open is one thing, what Robert Scoble tried to do is put people's private details on a social network they never chose to be a part of. Plaxo acuses Facebook of doing the same thing, but lets...
[January 5, 2008, 10:28]
Facebook Mobile Security Threat
Blog Facebook Mobile Security Threat Yes I will admit it, I am addicted to social networking with the likes of sites such as MySpace and Facebook too. As a staff writer of ITWeb recently put it, “…Trojans will continue to be present and there will be a...
[April 9, 2008, 0:28]
Facebook Evolves Into An Attack Tool For Criminals
News As Facebook evolves from a University alumini network into an enterprise tool, VeriSign iDefense security experts are warning that the platform is turning into a prime attack vector for cybercriminals.
[July 30, 2007, 8:18]
Facebook Founder Voted Top Man In Tech
News Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder and chief executive of social networking site Facebook, has been named the most influential person in technology for 2007. Facebook was launched just over three years ago and now has 42 million active users...
[October 17, 2007, 16:28]
Facebook Email Privacy Has A Hole
Blog Comment If you look at my subsequent post and its comments, you will see that Facebook reacted to this post very quickly, first removing the "contacts" feature then bringing it back, but without showing the email addresses.
[January 14, 2008, 8:09]
