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An engineer who joined Twitter in early 2007 and later earned the title "API Lead" has now left the company. Alex Payne announced this afternoon that he's quit,...

Facebook Closes In On 500 Million Users

In early February, Facebook announced that it had 400 million users, and while nothing's certain at this point, it looks like an announcement regarding the next big milestone ma...

MySpace Gets New Leadership for Marketing, Entertainment

MySpace let us know that it's hired marketing industry vet David Donegan as Senior Vice President of Marketing. He will oversee the company'...

Funding and Offers Pour In for Facebook Alternative

Diaspora has been getting a great deal of attention as reports come...

What is This Diaspora Everyone’s Talking About?

There is already a lot of hype being generated for a social network that doesn't even exist yet. I'm talking about Diaspora, which if y...

Is Deleting Your Facebook Account Really a Good Idea?

Since Facebook announced its plans to take over the web...

Facebook Introduces New Login Security Features

Don't be surprised if you see a drop-off in "John Doe is the worst boyfriend ever"-style status updates on Facebook starting this week. Facebook has introduced t...

NBC Turns To Twitter And Facebook To Promote Shows

NBC is hoping to take advantage of the popularity of social media by launching a new program called "Fan It" which will reward users for liking its shows on a number o...

NASA Invites Twitter Followers To Space Center In Houston

NASA is offering its Twitter followers a chance to personally get an up close look of a space shuttle mission at the agency's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston....

European Data Protection Authorities Blast Facebook

The group of entities that have a problem with Facebook's privacy policies has grown again. Late yesterday, the Article 29 Working Party (which has quite a bit of pull in...

MerchantCircle Aims to Duplicate U.S. Success Internationally

MerchantCircle is going international. The local business social network, which gets nearly six million unique monthly visitors (acco...

PeopleStyleWatch Partners With HauteLook On Online Shopping

PeopleStyleWatch.com, a magazine website focused on celebrity style news and trends, has partnered with fashion and shopping website HauteLook. Beginning today,...

Researchers Suggest Twitter Data Might Replace Polls

The next time there's a big election or important issue up for debate, think about thanking Twitter's founders if your phone doesn't ring. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon h...

Facebook Social Plugins on 100,000 Sites Since Launch

Facebook launched its new social plug-ins at its F8 developer conference last month, as part of the company's...

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