Liz Gannes in Social on January 21, 2011 at 1:00 am PT
Google’s new CEO isn’t much for the social Web. If he has a presence on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn it was created with deep privacy settings or a fake name. I couldn’t even find a fleshed-out Google profile for Larry Page.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT
As part of the new Facebook profile page redesign, users can now have a strip of the five most recently tagged photos of them running under their basic information. Some are having fun with this option, pranking each other to show inappropriate pictures and silly sequences of words.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 3, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
In an unusual move, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection asked a Columbia University Law School professor to censor his remarks in a hearing about online privacy legislation.
“We as members of Congress are never inclined to censor testimony in open congressional hearings,” Rep. Zachary Space, an Ohio Democrat, said when introducing the professor, Eben Moglen. “But Congress tries to foster highest level of decorum. I would ask you to avoid personal attacks against any companies or company employees.”
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on November 16, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT
If you love reading and want smart ways to share your books with friends or reading updates with social networks, the Nook Color has you covered.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 14, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
While there are many interesting photo-sharing apps out these days, Dave Morin and Path are the most convincing about there being a larger idea behind what they’re doing. San Francisco-based Path is stubbornly focused on close personal connections–a.k.a. real friends.
Kara Swisher in News on May 28, 2010 at 4:52 pm PT
Correcting yet another too-early rumor, sources tell BoomTown that–as has been previously reported many times in many places–Microsoft and Apple are in long-term talks about adding the Bing search service as a prominent option on the iPhone and
not as a replacement of Google.
But sources added that talks are not complete.
Currently, Google is the default search on the popular mobile device, although you can easily go into its settings and switch the search option to Yahoo.
John Paczkowski in Social on May 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm PT
Announcing Facebook’s newest set of privacy controls this morning, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “We are really going to try to not have another backlash.” If backlash is the metric for evaluating the company’s approach to member privacy, it seems to have done okay, at least at this early juncture. Within hours of Facebook’s announcement of new privacy controls, four of its most outspoken critics weighed in on them. And all had positive things to say.
John Paczkowski in Social on May 26, 2010 at 10:47 am PT
In a Washington Post editorial Monday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to simplify the privacy tools that have so befuddled the social networking site’s members and sparked complaints from privacy advocates and lawmakers. This morning, we found out just how he proposes to do that.
John Paczkowski in News on May 10, 2010 at 10:50 am PT
Perfect. Facebook has enlisted a former senior Bush administration regulator to defend its privacy practices in Washington. Tim Muris, who served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 2001 to 2004 and created the popular U.S. Do Not Call Registry, is advising the company, whose privacy disclosures and fast and loose handling of user data are increasingly drawing scrutiny on Capitol Hill.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 19, 2010 at 4:17 pm PT
The new Jawbone Icon synchs with a PC to expand its voice-command capability and add personality to your Bluetooth device.
