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Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant.
Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings.
The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID.
Mr Bowes said he p
Facebook has announced that it now has 500m active users, just six years after it was launched. The site has become the poster child of social networking on the web. While some others have seen growth, MySpace, Flickr and Bebo appear to have declined in the past year, according to these figures from Nielsen. Interesting international variations are seen, both in the amount of time Facebook users
Google is starting to make some significant moves that may give Google Buzz a significant boost. For example, this week, a "Reshare" button was announced. This is essentially Google's version of the retweet. If you follow a Buzz user who posts an interesting update, you can hit the "reshare" button (down with the comment, like, and email buttons) to repost that post to your own Buzz stream.
This is a website wheres guys post stories about their daily life, ranging from fucking girls then locking them in cars and random comments from Famous people that put women back in the kitchen, take a look VERY ADDICTIVE!
Are you one of the 400 million or so people around the world who use Facebook? If you are, Facebook is tracking your status updates as part of a Gross National Happiness Index.
The blogosphere described the meeting as a panic measure following weeks of criticism over the way Facebook handles members' data. Facebook said it was an opportunity for employees "to ask questions on a topic that has received a lot of outside interest".
The meeting took place after a number of high-profile users deleted their accounts when the site introduced a new feature that lets non-Face
A look a what happens when you delete your facebook account.
Google has admitted that testing of its controversial social network Buzz was insufficient...
Google announced this week the official launch of Buzz, a status and microblogging service that is joined at the hip with Gmail. It integrates with other Google services and can import data from a number of mainstream websites including Flickr and Twitter. We conducted hands-on testing to see how it compares to other popular social networking services.
As social networking aficionados will be
It appeared today as if Digg had been hacked. If you visit Digg.com and view the page source, you will see the following in the code.
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