Facebook Home Page Undergoes Redesign

PC Magazine reports that leading social media site Facebook has completed a site redesign intended to make it easier for users to immediately access their most important pieces of information and applications. The rollout is being done incrementally, meaning that not all users will immediately see changes... 

Manage the Sections on Your LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn has added a new feature to its profile settings that allows users to reorder the section of their profile via drag-and-drop. Users can now highlight specific skills, expertise and/or experiences by simply clicking and dragging the new handles featured on the headers of the “Edit Profile”... 

Golden Tee Golf Players Can Upload Great Shots to YouTube, Facebook

Social media is definitely ubiquitous, even extending to unlikely places like bar video games. One of the most popular games is Golden Tee Golf, which millions of bar patrons play each year. The game is so popular that it has spawned a professional circuit with lucrative tournaments. Now manufacturer... 

Malware and Spam Increase 70 percent on Social Networks

Cybercriminals have increasingly focused their attacks on social networking users, with an explosion in the reports of spam and malware in the past 12 months, according to a new report from Sophos, an IT security and data protection company. According to the report, 57 percent of respondents said they... 

Social Media Leaders Meet in Switzerland

The Los Angeles Times reports that the heads of the major social media sites are meeting at a conference in Davos, Switzerland to discuss ways to monetize the incredible popularity of social media tools. According to the report, top executives from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn met with world... 

Twitter Announces Developer Conference

Twitter announced its first ever developer conference, Chirp, to be held in San Francisco on April 14 and 15. The two-day event will start off with a full day of guest speakers at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco and will cover various topics including streaming, geolocation, business... 

Army Ready to Launch Secure Version of Facebook

Federal Computer Week says that the Army has been experimenting with its own version of Facebook with enhanced features designed to allow soldiers the ability to communicate with family and friends without compromising security. Dubbed milBook by Army officials, it has been in the testing stages since... 

Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites Increases Year-to-Year

Global consumers spent more than five and a half hours on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, accounting for an 82 percent increase from the same time last year, according to The Nielsen Company. The new study found that overall traffic to social networking sites has... 

Pope Benedict Calls on Catholic Church to Embrace New Technology

CNET.com reports that Pope Benedict XVI has called on priests in the Catholic Church to embrace technology, particularly social media sites including Twitter and Facebook, as a tool to communicate with followers. In a message for the Catholic Church’s 2010 World Day for Social Communications, Pope... 

Facebook Designs New Facility

Facebook yesterday announced its plans to build a custom data center in Prineville, Oregon—a first for the popular social networking company that began its humble operations in a Harvard dorm room. In order to meet the demands of a growing user population that has reached more than 350 million users... 

Bill Gates Joins Twitterverse

Despite being a computer mogul, Bill Gates has been reluctant to join the social media universe. The Microsoft founder stopped using Facebook recently after too many users tried to connect to him, but the Wall Street Journal reports that he’s giving Twitter a try as he’s signed up for the microblogging... 

AT&T Identifies Facebook Glitch

Following up on a AP report released Saturday that said an AT&T network glitch was responsible for giving some mobile users the ability to login to other people’s Facebook accounts, the New York Times Monday confirmed that the glitch “appears to be more of an issue with some misconfigured software... 

Twitter Ready to Launch Answer to Facebook Connect

TechCrunch reports that Twitter is set to launch its answer to Facebook Connect, which lets third parties integrate Facebook features into their Web sites and services. Through Facebook Connect, users can instantly post links from outside sites to their Facebook page. TechCrunch reports that 80,000 websites... 

Facebook and McAfee Join Forces

Earlier this week Facebook announced a year-long partnership with security software company McAfee, making it possible for more than 350 million Facebook users to download a six-month subscription to McAfee’s security software at no cost. In the Facebook blog announcement, the company reassures users... 

Social Media Becomes Focal Point of Haitian Philanthropy Efforts

Social media sites have become a focal point of humanitarian relief efforts after a massive earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday that may have left hundreds of thousands of citizens dead. The Chronicle of Philanthropy lists several efforts that have been started on sites such as Facebook and Twitter to raise... 

Comment on Facebook through Email

Facebook has a notification feature that sends emails to inform users about comments on posts that they had created or commented on. Today, the company launched a new feature that allows users to participate in these conversations –including status updates, photos, videos and Wall posts —... 

Facebook CEO Says “Social Norms” of Privacy are Changing

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerman made comments that could be seen as troubling to Internet privacy advocates. During an interview with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com during the site’s Crunchie Awards presentation, Zuckerman suggested that people’s... 

Facebook Supports PH.D. Students with New Fellowship

Facebook today announced its Facebook Fellowship Program, offering Ph.D. students enrolled in the 2010-2011 school year an opportunity to help solve challenges facing the social Web and Internet technology. The program is open to full-time Ph.D. students who are working on research in academic topics...