Articles by Basheera Khan
In the latest development to the Facebook terms of service debacle, Mark Zuckerberg has put out a call for user feedback to the proposed changes to what is now separated out into two separate documents …
There’s a lot of talk floating around about Google and Twitter at the moment; John Battelle explains why Twitter is the YouTube of realtime search and states the case for why Google should acquire the …
Mainstream media and specialist blogs alike are picking up on this nugget from neuroscientist Lady Greenfield, who suggests that the use of social networks can negatively influence the connections in one’s brain, resulting in “short …
AOL’s $850 million social network Bebo entered the lifestreaming space yesterday with the launch of a raft of new features focused on pulling in all aspects of users’ friends’ activity online even if they aren’t …
Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch stirred up a hornet’s nest over the weekend with a post suggesting that Last.fm had handed over user listener data to the RIAA – an allegation that prompted Last.fm founder Richard …
Just a week after Google launched its Social Bar, Facebook has launched a social widget for Facebook Connect, called the Comments Box. Ray C. He announced the launch on the Facebook blog, saying:
“The Comments Box …
Biz Stone has blogged about Twitter’s plans to integrate real-time search into the central Twitter service, saying that a small random subset of people will see Search and Trends in their signed-in home pages, looking …
In the face of the widespread backlash over its new terms of service, Facebook has reverted to the old TOS while they work out a new new version, which users can contribute to by joining …
Facebook just can’t seem to get the knack of handling service announcements in a way that doesn’t leave their users in a tizz. Chris Wallis at The Consumerist was the first to take a closer …
It’s not as if Twitter was looking, but who wouldn’t answer when opportunity knocks carrying $35m? Though Mark Hendrickson at TechCrunch has confirmation that the actual sum raised is in excess of $35m. Announcing the …
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