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LinkedIn has released some updates to its Groups feature. This is the first major update to Groups since the company launched discussions last summer. For starte...

Social Media Users Probably Not Doing Enough to Protect Their IDs

A new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Experian's ProtectMyID.com found that p...

Does the World Still Need Twitter?

Twitter users know that the service goes down fairly often, but that doesn't seem to alienate them. While Twitter has certainly had its...

Why Social Publishing Drives More Valuable Traffic

A number of major media companies are starting to implement tools for third-party authentication for consumers. We spoke with JanRain, which...

Privacy Q&A, Death Sentences…Just Another Day for Facebook

Facebook's privacy settings have been the subject of a great deal of discussion ever since the company held its F8 developer conference and...

Lakers Win Over Celtics Gets Twitter Record Tweets Per Second

Twitter announced today that it achieved a record 3,085 tweets per second last night as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in the NBA Championship....

Scammers Target Facebook

Security firm PandaLabs has reported the spread of scams hijacking the Facebook "Like" button. The attacks use messages related to the popular game Farm...

MySpace Confirms Departure of Co-president Jason Hirschhorn

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch let a cat out of MySpace's bag a little early, revealin...

The Most Followers Assembled On Twitter

Sysomos released a new social media report today which looks deeper into followers on Twitter and they...

Advocacy Groups Want Better Facebook Privacy Controls

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the ACLU of Northern California, and number of other privacy groups are calling on Facebook to give users true control over their perso...

Twitter Starts Testing the Promoted Trending Topics

Twitter is testing promoted trending topics as reports last week indicated that they would. If you go to Twitter.com and take a look at the...

Now You Can “Like” Comments on Facebook

Facebook is rolling out a feature that lets you "like" comments on posts just as you can the post itself. It's a simple feature that has surprisingly been absent until...

The First Rule Of Dot War: You Do Not Tweet About Dot War

Have you ever found yourself wondering if your Twitter icon could beat another in a pixel battle royale? Sure, we all have at one point or another… but now, thanks to...

Twitter Talks Excessive Service Outages

Twitter has acknowledged its latest increase of outages not only on its status blog (as usual), but o...

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