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NYT: The Facebooker who friended Obama

It's not Scarlet Johannsen and he's not a former member of the Weathered Underground. Phew!

The Age Blogs: Management Line

Should Facebook be banned from workplaces? Does help or hinder productivity?

Ringside to Unveil Social App Server

Interesting, but will it turn out to be all hype.

Facebook's collision course with the big portals

In fact, Facebook is on a collision course with the more mature Web colonies--AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. One of the key metrics of a major portal is stickiness--the number of applications used per member and time spent on the site. Communications services, such as e-mail, instant messaging, group chat, and forums, have proven to be very sticky.

Privacy vs. technology, freedom vs. convenience: it’s only going to get worse

Perhaps innovation and individual liberties aren’t inherently opposed, but a glance around the landscape suggests the difficulty in investing more deeply in the bounty of tech-enabled consumerism without sacrificing our personal privacy. Thousands of Facebook users and millions of online shoppers say they’re worried already. If so, the next decade promises to be absolutely terrifying.

New Facebook Redesign More Than Aesthetic

Facebook redesigns to improve clutter - or reduce it - or to save itself from its own applications.

Quitting Facebook Gets Easier

Facebook will now delete your account if you email them.

How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free

Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from Facebook, setting off a fresh round of concern over the popular social network s use of personal data.

“Trial By Facebook”

The case rocked the college because of the way Shaw-Fox s alleged sexual transgression was publicized on the 2,000-student campus: through a Facebook group called Morgan Shaw-Fox is a Piece of **** Rapist.

Enough of the Hills and Woods, Can I Send Grandma an E-Card?

I like this article for taking on the entitlement of air travel and social networks like Facebook all in one swoop.

Syria: Facebook Banned | Orato

Last Friday, Facebook, the popular social networking site, was banned in Syria. Though the reasons for this ban are still unclear, there is talk of the possibility of government attempts to combat a propaganda e-mail proliferated in Syria's network. What are the marooned Facebookers to do? Global Voices reports.

Protests force Facebook to change

Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked.

Facebook Über Alles

Facebook's plans for world domination have been revealed. The company s chief financial officer Gideon Yu says there s a group of people there who want to take over the world.

These Naughty Gifts Don’t Clutter a Closet

Who were these users whose attraction to furry handcuffs has earned Naughty Gifts a spot among the 50 most popular of the site s programs? I scrolled down. I saw, under the heading Friends who have added this application, photos of three people I knew. All three were teenagers. Two were my offspring.

Facebook to Display Member Ad Clicks in Feeds

Click on an ad in Facebook and your friends might see it in your profile feed.