en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/tech/facebook/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/tech/google_denies_staff_brain_drain/ Google has denied there is a brain drain of talent at the firm following the departure of its communications boss to social network Facebook. Elliot Schrage's departure as head of global communications and public affairs is the latest in a string of se news tech 2008-05-09 08:29:52 http://www.newsique.com/tech/google_denies_staff_brain_drain/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7389179.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/google_denies_staff_brain_drain/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_adds_privacy_controls/ Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social networking site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online. Facebook executives told reporters at news tech 2008-03-19 08:08:37 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_adds_privacy_controls/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23695476/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [8] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_adds_privacy_controls/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_founder_apology_over_ad/ The founder of social networking site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to users for the way it launched a social advertising system. Called Beacon, the system tracks web shopping on partner sites outside Facebook and then sells adverts to the so news tech 2007-12-06 08:28:48 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_founder_apology_over_ad/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7130349.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [9] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_founder_apology_over_ad/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/protests_force_facebook_change/ Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked. More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology. When Facebook news tech 2007-12-03 08:23:20 http://www.newsique.com/tech/protests_force_facebook_change/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7120916.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/protests_force_facebook_change/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_dims_the_beacon_spotlig/ The social network gives in to complaints, granting users greater control over a system that shares information about Web activity Facebook made modifications to a controversial advertising system that many users considered an invasion of privacy. On N news tech 2007-11-30 08:15:34 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_dims_the_beacon_spotlig/ BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071130_977788.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/businessweek/ 94 Interesting [8] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_dims_the_beacon_spotlig/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/new_facebook_ad_program_draws_co/ Some users of the online hangout Facebook are complaining that its two-week-old marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see. Those users say they never noticed a small box that appears on a corner of their Web browsers following news tech 2007-11-22 08:15:50 http://www.newsique.com/tech/new_facebook_ad_program_draws_co/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21919208/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Insightful [7] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/new_facebook_ad_program_draws_co/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/so_many_ads_so_few_clicks/ Can more targeted pitches on Facebook and other sites reverse the shrinking response to online ads? In June, Luke Mitchell's student marketing service, Reach Students, ran a series of Web ads to promote an offer from a major parcel delivery service. Th news tech 2007-11-02 08:16:41 http://www.newsique.com/tech/so_many_ads_so_few_clicks/ BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_46/b4058053.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/businessweek/ 94 Interesting [8] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/so_many_ads_so_few_clicks/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/ny_attorney_general_facebook_not/ Facebook falsely advertises the safety of its social network and fails to respond to complaints about obscene content and sexual predators in a timely manner, says the New York Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo's office has launched an investigation i news tech 2007-09-26 11:16:12 http://www.newsique.com/tech/ny_attorney_general_facebook_not/ Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070925-ny-attorney-general-facebook-not-safe-enough-for-minors.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/ars_technica/ 97 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/ny_attorney_general_facebook_not/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/microsoft_mulls_facebook_stake/ Microsoft is reported to be in talks to buy a stake in Facebook that could value the social networking website at as much as $10bn. The talks could lead to a showdown with Microsoft's rival, Google, which is also keen to invest in Facebook, th news tech 2007-09-25 08:25:30 http://www.newsique.com/tech/microsoft_mulls_facebook_stake/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7011522.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [16] 70 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/microsoft_mulls_facebook_stake/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_opens_profiles_to_publi/ Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates. The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to search for a specific person. Mor news tech 2007-09-06 15:43:20 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_opens_profiles_to_publi/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/6980454.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_opens_profiles_to_publi/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/omg_my_mom_joined_facebook/ I HAVE reached a curious point in life. Although I feel like the same precocious know-it-all cynic I always was, I suddenly am surrounded by younger precocious know-it-all cynics whose main purpose appears to be to remind me that I’ve lost my edge. opinion tech 2007-06-07 14:18:29 http://www.newsique.com/tech/omg_my_mom_joined_facebook/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/fashion/07Cyber.html?ex=1338868800&en=fa1a5523b4971106&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Insightful [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/omg_my_mom_joined_facebook/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/hi-tech_entrepreneurs_mull_build/ As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich. But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet's second largest social-networking site also could tur news tech 2007-02-27 23:27:23 http://www.newsique.com/tech/hi-tech_entrepreneurs_mull_build/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_hi_te/next_big_deal http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/hi-tech_entrepreneurs_mull_build/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_agrees_child_safety_pla/ Facebook is to add a slew of new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyber bullies. At the heart of the changes are efforts to ban convicted sex offenders from the site and finding better ways to verify users' ages and identities. news tech 2008-05-09 08:26:44 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_agrees_child_safety_pla/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7391170.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_agrees_child_safety_pla/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/employers_pulling_the_plug_on_fa/ As the co-founder of Ascentive, a Philadelphia-based software firm that solves workplace Internet problems, Adam Schran figured managing his own staff's Web use was pretty well covered. That was before Facebook came along. Like countless other small-bu news tech 2008-05-07 08:21:18 http://www.newsique.com/tech/employers_pulling_the_plug_on_fa/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23749011/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/employers_pulling_the_plug_on_fa/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/life_on_the_edge_learning_from_f/ The social network provides important lessons for executives—and a key forum for innovation and experimentation For most business executives, Facebook remains a remote, somewhat mysterious, online frontier. Many executives harbor strong doubts that F news tech 2008-04-08 08:18:08 http://www.newsique.com/tech/life_on_the_edge_learning_from_f/ BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2008/id2008042_809134.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/businessweek/ 94 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/life_on_the_edge_learning_from_f/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_ceo_admits_missteps/ At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says the social network has yet to achieve its grand ambition. Plus, the lesson of the Beacon controversy Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, 23, has developed a reputation, deserved or not, for being aloof and arrogant. news tech 2008-03-11 08:19:48 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_ceo_admits_missteps/ BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc2008037_151923.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/businessweek/ 94 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_ceo_admits_missteps/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/myspace_opens_up_to_developers/ MySpace will open its doors to software developers allowing them to create games and media-sharing applications for the popular social network. MySpace will formally launch its "Developer Platform" next Tuesday but is already allowing people to sign up news tech 2008-01-31 08:17:30 http://www.newsique.com/tech/myspace_opens_up_to_developers/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7217975.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/myspace_opens_up_to_developers/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_scores_euro_funds/ The investment, likely to be in the millions, from Germany's Net-savvy Samwer brothers, will boost the social networking site's Europe expansion Facebook has attracted yet another strategic investor, raising millions of euros to fuel its European expan news tech 2008-01-16 08:12:20 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_scores_euro_funds/ BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2008/gb20080115_186839.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/businessweek/ 94 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_scores_euro_funds/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_ruins_christmas_for_eve/ Regarding online privacy, there are no easy answers — not any that are going to appease everyone any time soon. But the question is probably more interesting anyway. We've already spent a lot of time grappling with the drift of information from private opinion tech 2007-11-30 08:18:13 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_ruins_christmas_for_eve/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22012113/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_ruins_christmas_for_eve/#comments http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_may_revamp_beacon/ After pressure from MoveOn and members, the social network may change a policy on sharing info on users' Web buying and activities In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discussing changes to a controversial advertising tool that pu news tech 2007-11-29 08:16:16 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_may_revamp_beacon/ BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071128_366355.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/businessweek/ 94 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/tech/facebook_may_revamp_beacon/#comments