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The Silly Putty age of social media | The Social - CNET News
A handful of social-media start-ups let you build small and temporary networks rather than one big one, and Facebook is starting to catch on, too. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
11-04-2010 by sallythewaitress Tags , , , , , , ,

Facebook announces 5-to-1 stock split | The Social - CNET News
The company has divided up its shares for the third time as a means of keeping the price of individual shares low without suppressing its valuation or diluting shareholders' stakes. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
10-06-2010 by fionahavisham Tags , , , , , , ,

Foursquare courts the rest of us | The Social - CNET News
A revamp for the location-based networking service both differentiates it from big new competitor Facebook Places and potentially makes it appeal to an audience beyond the hard-core user. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
09-28-2010 by elizabethjames Tags , , , , , , ,

iPhone app created for psychic German octopus | The Social - CNET News
After a cephalopod 'predicted' the outcome of multiple World Cup soccer games, an iPhone app development company has created a tribute app. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
07-19-2010 by bryanmills Tags , , , , , ,

Facebook to promote new U.K. safety app | The Social - CNET News
Britain's online child-safety agency had wanted Facebook to install a mandatory 'panic button' throughout the site. The social network disagreed, but is promoting the agency's app and fan page. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
07-16-2010 by janetbaring Tags , , , , , , , ,

New developer permissions roll out on Facebook | The Social - CNET News
The social network is instituting a new interface to inform users of exactly what they're agreeing to when they connect a third-party app to their accounts. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
07-06-2010 by jeantatlock Tags , , , , , , , ,

California Dems to decide on ex-Facebook exec in primary | The Social - CNET News
Chris Kelly, former chief privacy officer at the social network, is one of the two front-runners in Tuesday's primary for state attorney general. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
06-14-2010 by ruthlovell Tags , , , , , ,

Mozilla hires open-standards guru Celik | The Social - CNET News
With pressure on the browser front from Chrome and pressure on the Web front from Facebook, Mozilla hires someone who, ironically, used to work on Microsoft IE. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
06-06-2010 by alicekeach Tags , , , ,

Facebook's impending fight with D.C. (FAQ) | The Social - CNET News
Four senators have petitioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighting concerns about handling of user data. Here's how this new scrutiny could shape the immediate and long-term future of Facebook. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
05-05-2010 by victoriamasterson Tags , , , ,

What Facebook's latest means for the Web | The Social - CNET News
The social network is pushing its presence out onto the Web at large--and in turn, pulling more data back in--with a suite of new products that are simultaneously groundbreaking and alarming. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
05-04-2010 by ruthlovell Tags , , , ,

Where is geolocation at Facebook's F8? | The Social - CNET News
Attendees at developer confab were handed 'Facebook Presence' tokens, which hook up RFID tag to Facebook account. Will we see more or this? Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
05-02-2010 by samspruell and 1 other Tags , , , , , ,

Is Foursquare's growth boxed in? | The Social - CNET News
The press frenzy surrounding the start-up could follow the path of Twitter. What nobody's saying is that it could also easily follow the path of Second Life. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
04-19-2010 by donfontana Tags ,

Questioning Facebook's Q&A quest | The Social - CNET News
Perhaps Facebook's construction of a 'Questions' product is in response to losing its bid for Aardvark to Google? That would explain why Google paid so much for it. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
04-18-2010 by victoriamasterson Tags , , , , , , ,

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