13 posts and columns on profiles

Tobii’s Eye-Tracking Tech Knows What You’re Eyeing on Dating Sites

in Commerce on February 6 at 8:00 am PT

Men like pictures; women like text. You don’t say.
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News Byte

The Facebook Timeline You Forgot About Is Launching

in News on December 15, 2011 at 5:38 am PT

Facebook announced on its blog this morning that it will be rolling out Timeline — a new view of Facebook profiles that is meant to “tell the story of your life” by featuring old photos as well as new — to all users worldwide. The Timeline feature was one in a series of product announcements the social networking site made at its f8 developers conference in September; until now, it had only started rolling out in New Zealand.

There's a One in 200 Chance You're Tweeting From Inside Justin Bieber

in Media on January 19, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

Or at least somewhere very close to the teen idol: Some are “in Justin Biebers heart” or “Bieberacademy” or “Bieberville, California.” Big picture: Sometimes people aren’t truthful when they fill out their Twitter profiles!

Holy Start-Up Pileup! Social Networking Gets Professional.

in Social on January 4, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

The same variety of apple has apparently been falling from trees all over Silicon Valley, hitting Web entrepreneurs on the head and inspiring them to create better ways to connect personal and professional social networks.

Trying Out a Revamped Myspace

in The Digital Solution on December 21, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

Katie reviews the revamped Myspace, with its focus on topics in popular culture, including television, music, movies, celebrities and comedy.

What Privacy Problem? Web Ad Targeter Media6Degrees Raises $17 Million

in Media on December 12, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

More money for a Web ad start-up that promises marketers it can sniff out prospective buyers by tracking their “social signature.”

Facebook Says User Data Sold to Broker

in News on November 1, 2010 at 8:15 am PT

Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice. The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers’ blog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that The Wall Street Journal reported in October.

About.me: A Social Networking Profile to Rule Them All?

in News on October 13, 2010 at 10:36 am PT

Do we now have so many profiles online that we need another site to keep track of them all? The founders of a new platform called About.me are betting on it. About.me ties together users’ other social-networking sites and includes analytics that let users track things like how many people viewed their About.me page and which social-networking profiles they viewed from there.

News Byte

Facebook Deletes Two Purported North Korean Accounts

in News on August 24, 2010 at 10:15 am PT

Facebook (along with Twitter and YouTube) is officially banned in North Korea, and as such, Facebook spokeswoman Kumiko Hidaka cited the social network’s term of service regarding the deletion of two accounts purported to originate from there. “If a person poses as a person or entity that you don’t officially represent, that becomes a violation of our policy.” For its part, in response to this and other recent speculation that it has been utilizing social media for propaganda purposes, North Korea’s government assured Forbes’s Taylor Buley that it isn’t.

Facebook Glitch Exposed Private Chats

in News on May 5, 2010 at 10:34 am PT

Facebook Inc. said it has disabled its chat service while it fixes a bug that permitted some users’ instant messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends. The snafu comes amid a flurry of criticism about the social network’s handling of privacy.

Power.com Suit Against Facebook Is Dismissed

in News, October 23, 2009 at 2:52 pm PT

Facebook to Nonprofits: More Pages, Fewer Apps

in News, August 28, 2009 at 12:40 pm PT