Today Facebook launched a feature that some would consider long overdue. They now let you reply to comments via email. In other words, when you get an email notification alertin...
Some people use their Facebook account like another email address, logging in, checking their messages, and logging out. Others just add a couple of friends, skim a few st...
Win-win-win situations don't crop up too often, but Facebook and McAfee seem to have orchestrated one on a very large scale. The two companies announced this morning that...
Today, the Apache Software Foundation gained a new sponsor: Facebook. Facebook is a gold sponsor, too, which means that the social network expressed its support for open s...
For many in the online space these days the words “Facebook privacy” would be called an oxymoron. Then of course there would be the usual calling others at Facebook...
It seems that a lot of government scientists are betting people will turn to Twitter when Mother Nature lets loose. Earlier, we wrote about the USGS's Twitter Earthquake D...
The fact that reports of earthquakes (or at least messages reading "EARTHQUAKE!!!") are quick to surface on Twitter is a key reason many people first recognized the si...
The past year set a new record for malware creation with 25 million new strains, according to a new report by PandaLabs.
The latest surge of activity included new...
As Facebook employees went back to work this week, they may have been smiling more (or at least less frowning less) than most other people returning from vacation. Their s...
Movie social networking site, Flixster, said today it has acquired movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from IGN Entertainment, a division of News Corp.
News Corp wi...
Seesmic announced today that it has acquired Ping.fm. This is a service that has half a million active users posting daily from various devices by s...