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  • Digg in tough spot with DMCA debacle

    It was a whirlwind Tuesday for the social news site Digg, complete with a cease-and-desist letter, a mutinous user base and speculation that it might get sucked into a legal battle.

  • Facebook suspends Top Friend peephole app

    Facebook has suspended the "Top Friends" application after a Canadian computer technician discovered it allowed anyone to peep through normally inaccessible parts of Facebook accounts.

  • Facebook updates its own profile

    Ben Ling, director of product marketing for the Facebook platform, gave a brief peek of the upcoming profile page update and outlined Facebook's vision at Graphing Social Patterns conference.

  • Facebook founder 'most influential'

    The 23-year-old founder of social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has been named by an industry poll as the most influential person in technology for 2007.

  • Stormy future ahead for Facebook and MySpace

    Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still wary -- and for good reason

  • Facebook evolves into an attack tool for criminals

    As Facebook continues to spread like wild-fire amongst consumers, and increasingly the enterprise as new applications support its use at work, VeriSign iDefense security experts believe Facebook apps are a prime vector for cyber-criminals.

  • Facebook 'is beating MySpace in popularity contest'

    New numbers from metrics firm ComScore show that in May, Facebook appears to have surpassed MySpace in worldwide unique visitors for the first time.

  • Social networks take platforms to new level

    Five months ago, Facebook changed the social networking race when it released its developers platform. Now, the other Web companies are looking at their own strategies in an effort to keep up with that success.

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