Crooks Hijack Facebook Accounts, Injuring Dignity
Monday, December 14th, 2009Image via Wikipedia
It used to be that computer viruses attacked only your hard drive. Now they attack your dignity.
Malicious programs are rampaging through Web sites like Facebook and Twitter, spreading themselves by taking over people’s accounts and sending out messages to all of their friends and followers. The result is that people are inadvertently telling [...]
Facebook Profiles Capture True Personality, According to New Psychology Research
Sunday, December 6th, 2009Image via CrunchBase
Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin.
“I was surprised by the findings because the widely held assumption is that people are using their profiles [...]
Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays
Sunday, November 8th, 2009Image via CrunchBase
Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist.
These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game Sorority Life, are no more than a collection of pixels on a Web page.
But [...]
Towards Healthier Communication: Social Networking Tools To Enhance Personal And Social Wellbeing
Sunday, September 6th, 2009Computer scientists at the University of Southampton are using social networking tools to explore if individuals can enhance their personal and social wellbeing over time
Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move
Monday, January 28th, 2008Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website.
The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on that website.
Wei Zhu from Facebook explains the benefits:
Since the library does not require any server-side code on [...]











































