After months of work, upstart social network Diaspora has released its source code as promised so that it now truly becomes an open source project that aims to “decentralize the web.” During the height of the Facebook privacy scare this past May, a group of four computer students, who also happened to be friends, got a lot of attention from the social networking world by asking for...
Three men have been arrested in Nashua, New Hampshire for burglarizing at least 18 homes this summer, and they could possibly be linked to even more pending further investigation. The three men — Mario Rojas, Leonardo Barroso and Victor Rodriguez — were either brilliant, or insanely stupid depending on how you look at it. According to WMUR, the three men, along with possibly more...
I know this news may shock some of you, but Google has acquired another company. Oh, and even more shocking is it is a social networking/media-based company. No worries, though, Google still won’t admit its working on a social network of its own named Google Me, so all is still right with the world. It was announced on Monday that Google had acquired Canadian social gaming company...
When you are a multi-billion dollar company with about a thousand questions about privacy issues, a reputation that is losing its luster and a major movie coming up about the questionable means by which the company was launched, do you really want to be trolling for more bad publicity? You know, like picking on a tiny niche site that has yet to even launch? That is exactly the...
Well, we were correct that the new Facebook product was all about location tools, but the surprising bit was that every location based service decided if you can’t beat them, join them. After a weird start to the press event, which involved shuttling people to a second location, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage in an un-tucked t-shirt, the typical wardrobe of a multi-...
This past Thursday, AlterNet ran a story about a group of approximatively 100 conservatives, known as Digg Patriots, that was gaming the Digg system by burying stories it didn’t agree with and voting up (or Digging) the stories it did. What followed was a maelstrom of incredulous blog posts through out the tech blogosphere over what a horrific event this was, and could Digg ever...
Apparently social gaming companies are the new black this season for mega-corporations as two major acquisitions were announced yesterday. We reported on Monday that The Disney Company was being rumored to be in talks with Playdom to purchase the social gaming company for between $400 million to $750 million. On Tuesday that became a reality when it was announced that the deal was for...
Everyone treats MySpace like a ghost town in spite of the fact it is still the second biggest social network next to Facebook. No, it doesn’t enjoy the popularity it once did, but it sure isn’t exactly dead either. In the light of the user migration from the former to the latter, once has to wonder what caused it, and one researcher thinks it may be what has driven Caucasians out of ...
Ever since the Old Spice commercials debuted with … well, the guy they have given no name to … have debuted, the Internet has loved them, sharing them across various sites, and talking about how funny they were. Well, yesterday the company decided to really embrace this Internet popularity by bring in the actor to do over 100 mini-commercials it published on YouTube where he responded...
We are all familiar with privacy policies on websites, and how they all promise that they will never sell your information to a third-party, and your privacy is of great concern to them etc. etc. But, what happens when that site goes out of bankrupt? How long is that information protected for after a site closes? Where does it go? Have we rushed into this age of social networking...