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DC's Hottest Club: Finnish Sauna Society

Where bipartisan networking is nude and sweaty

(Newser) - The hottest secret society in Washington is the Diplomatic Finnish Sauna Society, a group of DC operatives who gather to sweat in the 190-degree heat of the traditional Finnish sauna at said country's Embassy. For the society's 150 sauna-goers—Capitol Hill staffers, lobbyists, White House officials, and journalists—sauna networking...

Why Facebook Isn't the No. 1 Website&mdash;Yet
Why Facebook Isn't the
No. 1 Website—Yet
ANALYSIS
Mar 17, 2010 3:20 PM CDT

Why Facebook Isn't the No. 1 Website—Yet

Google still gets more visitors overall

(Newser) - The fact that Facebook received more traffic than Google last week has been taken as a sign that the mantle of the top website has been passed to Zuckerberg and Co. Facebook, however, "has yet to pull ahead in any real sense," writes Jessi Hempel. In fact, it...

Feds Swarm Facebook for Leads, Under Cover

Documents show FBI friends suspects to mine information

(Newser) - Your next Facebook friend might well be a federal agent trying to bust you. That’s the gist of a Justice Department document obtained via the Freedom of Information Act by a privacy group. It reveals that FBI agents are mining social networks for info on suspects, ranging from alibi...

Hate Speech Soars on Social Networks

Hate speech up 20% on the Web

(Newser) - Hate speech is on the rise online, particularly on social networking sites. A new study registered about 11,500 hate-affiliated web pages, up 20% from last year, along with a growing number of terror-related "how to" sites. "The spike is not in traditional websites in the United States,...

Facebook's Traffic Tops Google's for Week
 Facebook's Traffic 
 Tops Google's for Week 
NEW MILESTONE FOR NO. 1
Mar 15, 2010 7:00 PM CDT

Facebook's Traffic Tops Google's for Week

Social network site had done it for a day, but this is new

(Newser) - Facebook’s traffic from US visitors hit a new milestone for the week ending Saturday: It took the top spot from Google. The social-networking site had beaten the search giant on single days before, notably Christmas. Facebook’s traffic is up 185% over the same week in 2009, Hitwise reports,...

Facebook May Sue UK Tab for Flubbed Sex Predator Story

Said reporter posing as girl harassed by men

(Newser) - Posing as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook, a Daily Mail reporter was bombarded by messages from 20- to 40-year-old men wanting "to perform a sex act"—only it was really another social networking site, and Facebook is livid and threatening to sue over the misreported story . The author...

Facebook Murderer Gets Life
 Facebook Murderer Gets Life 
Mar 8, 2010 4:45 PM CST

Facebook Murderer Gets Life

Rapist used fake profile, posed as 'dad' to lure teen

(Newser) - A repeat sex offender was sentenced to life in prison today for killing a teenage girl he'd lured into a meeting using Facebook. Peter Chapman created a fake profile, complete with a photo of an attractive, bare-chested boy, to gain the attention of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall. The homeless 33-year-old tricked...

Duplicitous Zuckerberg Stalled Early Facebook Rival

Founder delayed project he was working on to benefit his site

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from the founders of a rival site and intentionally stalled that site's development so his would prosper. That's the takeaway from an analysis of instant messages Business Insider says it “believes” the Facebook CEO sent while his site was getting off the...

Twitter Passes 10B Tweets
 Twitter Passes 10B Tweets 
Mar 4, 2010 10:10 PM CST

Twitter Passes 10B Tweets

Milestone comes just 4 months after No. 5B

(Newser) - Just four months after it hit 5 billion, Twitter passed the 10 billion-tweet mark this evening. That’s according to Gigatweet , which, in the best high-volume-times tradition of the beast it tracks, went down around the milestone. Alas, Mashable reports, a protected user gave the world No. 10,000,000,...

Soldier's Facebook Post Derails Israeli Raid

Grunt who posted details on social network gets 10 days in jail

(Newser) - A West Bank raid by the Israel Defense Forces had to be called off after a soldier posted details of the operation on his Facebook page. “On Wednesday,” the status update read, “we are cleaning out " a village, which the soldier named. “Today an arrest...

Twitter Closes In on 10B Tweets

Total posts up from 1B a year ago, 5B just 4 months ago

(Newser) - Twitter isn’t growing as explosively as it used to, but the volume of traffic on the microblogging site is still expanding fast enough that it should hit 10 billion total tweets in the coming days. That’s up from a billion about a year ago, and 5 billion just...

Conan Tops 400K Twitter Followers; Beard Has 144

Fans can also read thoughts of squirrel, monkey, Sharpie, freckles

(Newser) - Conan O’Brien’s breakout Twitter success—442,296 followers and counting—may be overshadowing the exploits of a coterie of related microbloggers. Conan’s beard (144 followers) has something to say, as do the squirrel who lives in his backyard (1,191), his freckles (14), and his Sharpie marker...

1 in 3 Fear Being 'One of Those iPhone People'

But though some find it 'dangerously alluring,' most 'love' gadget

(Newser) - It's “dangerously alluring,” but the iPhone makes most Stanford students so giddy that they don’t really care. About a third of respondents in a recent study said they worried about becoming addicted to the gadget. But the torrid affair is far from over—roughly three-quarters said that...

Facebook Gets Patent on Its News Feed: Game Over?
Facebook Gets Patent on Its News Feed: Game Over?
ANALYSIS
Feb 25, 2010 10:11 PM CST

Facebook Gets Patent on Its News Feed: Game Over?

Nah, Twitter et al. probably in the clear

(Newser) - Facebook has received a patent for its news feed, a status update that could have consequences for its social-networking competitors—though analysts disagree on how wide-reaching, if indeed Facebook chooses to go after the likes of MySpace, Twitter et al. “Indeed,” Caroline McCarthy writes for CNET , “technologies...

Sorry, You Can't Copyright Your Tweets

The law doesn't cover short phrases, no matter how profound

(Newser) - No matter how brilliant, your tweets just aren't copyright material, writes Jeffrey Zeldman. The law covers "fixed phrases," but that doesn't apply to names, titles, or short phrases. At 140 characters max, tweets are most definitely in the latter category, making them fair game in the public domain....

Newest Celeb Tweeter: Dalai Lama

@dalailama hits 100K followers in first day

(Newser) - It remains to be seen whether his offline following will boost him past the Ashton Kutchers of the Twittersphere, but the Dalai Lama is well on his way after opening his Twitter account today. With @DalaiLama , the Tibetan spiritual leader is nearing 100,000 (to Kutcher ’s 4.5...

Twitter Users Issue 600 Tweets Per Second

That's 50M Tweets a day

(Newser) - Twitter is expanding rapidly: the site now hosts 50 million Tweets every day, or about 600 every second. Twitter announced its latest figures this week, and though it did not disclose how many users it has, it drew about 75 million unique visitors last month, PC World reports. The site's...

Google Buzz Dangerous for Kids: Parents

Children unprepared for virtual world share more than is prudent

(Newser) - Normally vigilant parents are in a tizzy over Google’s surreptitious addition of its Buzz social networking client to Gmail, which they say enables kids with little understanding of what is prudent to share online to enter a dangerous world. “This is foisted on children and they love it,...

San Quentin: Yes, It's on Yelp
 San Quentin: Yes, It's on Yelp 
FOURSQUARE, TOO
Feb 22, 2010 10:22 PM CST

San Quentin: Yes, It's on Yelp

Many reviews from tourists' ex-cons hate the food

(Newser) - Perhaps he was doing research into convicts and social media , but whatever the reason he was looking, MG Siegler is surprised to find California’s forbidding San Quentin state prison on Yelp (FourSquare, too). And though many of the 19 reviews are dedicated to tours and other open-to-the-public features, there...

Facebook Users Report Glitches, Slow Speed

Site says it's working on the problem

(Newser) - Facebook users have been complaining about problems with the site today. Users in the US and other countries took to Twitter beginning this morning to say they couldn't log in or were experiencing slow speeds. A spokesman said the company is working to restore access and, without giving a specific...

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