MySpace employees are bracing for a massive bloodletting on the verge of a possible sale. The troubled social networking site is expected to see its 1,100-strong workforce shrink to half its current size by the middle of the month. [More]
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Site Exposes Facebook Overshares
By 12.15.10
In the spirit of PleaseRobMe.com, ReasonsToHate lets users search in real time for specific phrases in public Facebook posts. [More]
BofA Charges Me $35 Overdraft Fee After Identity Theft, But Twitter Rescues Me
By 12.13.10
An identity thief robbed Scott’s Bank of America account of $600. Adding to the pain, the bank spun its wheels on offering a refund, bludgeoning him with a $35 overdraft fee. [More]
Facebook To Student: That'll Be $300 For Nothing
By 12.8.10
Max says he used Facebook Ads to direct traffic to his computer repair service, and is baffled that the Zuckerberg Death Star is charging him nearly $300 despite receiving only eight weekly page views during the ad campaign — down from his usual 10 weekly hits. A $50 credit helped defray the costs, but he’s still stuck with a $245.17 bill. [More]
30 Million Farmville Users Get Lives, Stop Playing
By 11.24.10
After a 15-month reign of inexplicable Facebook domination, Farmville has ceded its crown to Phrases, a quote, image and quiz-posting app. [More]
What It Costs To Whore Out Celebrities On Twitter
By 11.22.10
If you’re a deep-pocketed advertiser who thinks all your product needs to get over the top is some Twitter love from Marlon Wayans, Khloe Kardashian or Lindsay Lohan, pull out your checkbook, because you’re just a payment away from making it happen. [More]
Facebook Will Be Plagued By 50 Million Zombie Accounts By 2015
By 11.19.10
Facebook is so relatively new that deaths of users are somewhat of an anomaly, but a mathematical model reveals that the amount of undead accounts will rise to 50 million within five years. [More]
Guy Gets Paid To Wear Peoples' Shirts
By 11.4.10
Since so many of us provide free advertising to companies by walking around with their logos on our shirts, it was only a matter of time before an entrepreneur decided to build a business out of the phenomenon. [More]
Facebook Suspends Data-Sharing Developers For 6 Months
By 11.2.10
Cracking down on Facebook app developers who were caught sharing user IDs to advertisers, the social networking site revealed a zero tolerance policy for data brokers, going so far as to ban offenders for half a year. [More]
NY Bar Rules It's Ethical For Lawyers To Scour Facebook For Damaging Info
By 9.27.10
The New York Bar Association has decreed that it’s okay for lawyers to troll through Facebook and other social media sites for damaging info on their opposition. There is an important caveat, though. It’s only ethical if the info is publicly available. “Friending” someone for the purpose of accessing data the person only makes available to their “friends” is not kosher, nor is it cool to ask someone else to do it for you. [More]
Twitter Closes Up Loophole That Sent Unwitting Users To Potentially Dangerous Sites
By 9.22.10
Twitter patched up a security gap that sent users to other sites when they moved their mouse cursors over links. Using a JavaScript function called onMouseOver, spammy marketers drew in unwitting customers to their sites without them having to click. [More]
Facebook Making A Phone Of Its Own
By 9.20.10
Somewhere in the secret Facebook labs, a plan was enacted to create a phone to battle the likes of the iPhone and Droid. The company has reportedly contracted with a third party to get rolling on the until-now secret device, which could be out by the holidays this year. Or not. [More]
Twitter Makeover Lets You Embed Pics, Videos On Site
By 9.15.10
A Twitter redesign that’s rolling out incrementally alters the layout and lets users post pictures and videos directly on the site rather than just link to them. [More]
Burglary Ring Scoped Facebook Statuses For Targets
By 9.13.10
Even though your friends may be bored with your copious Facebook posts, there is a certain group that is very interested in your lame airport terminal observations and vacation photos. That group would be thieves. [More]
Target Sells Facebook Gift Cards
By 9.2.10
This holiday season, give the gift of Mafia Wars addiction with Facebook gift cards from Target. [More]
Only So Many People Can Block You On Facebook
By 8.24.10
Investigating why it is that you can’t block Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, Mashable discovered a safeguard makes it so once someone has been blocked enough, future blockage is prevented. [More]
Disable Facebook Places From Letting Others Tag Your Location
By 8.19.10
“Facebook Places” is a new Facebook feature with Foursquare check-in-like functionality, but by default it lets other people tag you as being at a location without requiring your consent even if you’re not there. This could lead to friends tagging you as being inside a peepshow, or an ex-girlfriend tagging you as being with another girl so your new girlfriend gets pissed off. The sitcom storyline possibilities are endless! Here’s how to turn it off: [More]
Log In Often, Quickly And Facebook Will Block You
By 8.6.10
Tim says he’s pinpointed a flaw in Facebook’s security system that blocks users and computers from Facebook accounts — while also locking the accounts — if they are hit with too many failed logins or too many successful logins in too short of a time period. Facebook got back to Tim and says it’s aware of the issue and is working on a fix but doesn’t yet know when it will come. [More]
