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Soured on Yahoo, Microsoft Made Pass at Facebook

Software giant reportedly expressed interest in buying social networking icon

(Newser) - As its talks with Yahoo began to break down, Microsoft turned its attentions to Facebook as its possible Internet portal solution, reports the Wall Street Journal. Microsoft already has a $240-million stake in the $15-billion company, but it's uncertain if Facebook would consider a full acquisition. The Journal's source says...

Yahoo, Microsoft Back Where They Started: Behind Google

Both companies scramble for options

(Newser) - The Microsoft/Yahoo deal looks dead, and at least one company is celebrating: Google. Both companies are exploring other deals, but none will be as potent as MicroHoo might have been, BusinessWeek reports. That’s good news for a certain search giant. “Its two main competitors are separate and floundering,...

Obama Donor List Is 'Gigantic'

Database could make him power broker for decades

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s massive donor and networking list—stuffed with data on 2 million people—will make him a major power broker even if his campaign falters, Bloomberg reports. Unlike past hopefuls, Obama has inspired donors to reveal addresses, phone numbers, and even views on specific issues. "It's gigantic,...

Facebook Shopping for Grownup Execs
Facebook Shopping for Grownup Execs
Apr 28, 2008 7:47 PM CDT

Facebook Shopping for Grownup Execs

Site moves to fix mistakes by raiding Silicon Valley powers

(Newser) - After some high-profile blunders, Facebook is looking for older and more seasoned executives to round out its team. Former Google veep Sheryl Sandberg has already joined up, and the social-networking site is looking for a new general counsel and a vice president of communications and public policy, Forbes reports.

Young Teachers Finding Big Trouble Online

Facebook, MySpace pages test boundaries between public, private

(Newser) - Questionable postings and photos on social-networking web pages are becoming an issue with younger US teachers, the Washington Post reports, raising questions about where to draw a line between private expression and standards for public employees. A case in point is a substitute special-education teacher whose page includes a so-called...

Facebook Used to Search for Darfur Criminals

Men indicted on 51 counts in genocide remain at large

(Newser) - A humanitarian group is using Facebook to search for two war criminals involved with genocide in Darfur, the BBC reports. The War Crimes Watch List issued an open call on the social network for sightings of Ahmed Haroun and Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman, who face 51 counts of crimes...

OMG Gatsby Was a Fraud!
OMG Gatsby Was a Fraud!
Apr 24, 2008 9:07 PM CDT

OMG Gatsby Was a Fraud!

It's no ROFL matter: web-speak, text-talk and even :( are slipping into schoolwork

(Newser) - Two-thirds of American teens aren’t keeping their LOLs to themselves: They're turning in papers and lab reports with abbreviations, dropped punctuation, and other informalities inherent to Internet and text-message vocabularies, the AP reports. Kids who write blogs and have Facebook pages are more likely to slip from formality in...

Has LiLo Switched Teams?
 Has LiLo Switched Teams? 
Apr 22, 2008 12:03 PM CDT

Has LiLo Switched Teams?

Troubled starlet defends lesbian gal pal, sends rumor mill into overdrive

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan and DJ darling Samantha Ronson seem to be more than just friends. When Ashley Olsen greeted Ronson Friday night, a jealous Lohan screamed: "Get your 15-year-old "Full House" a** away from my girlfriend," a source told the New York Post.

Facebook Apps Have Fans, Need Money
Facebook Apps Have Fans,
Need Money
Apr 18, 2008 10:32 AM CDT

Facebook Apps Have Fans, Need Money

Companies figure out how to profit from widgets

(Newser) - Facebook widgets have been wildly popular, but they haven’t always been wildly profitable. “The fascinating thing about widgets is it turns out that distribution isn't really the challenge,” says the CEO of VideoEgg, the developer behind Scrabulous and Flixster. "The question is how do you monetize...

Car Owner's Cyber Posse Nails Canadian Thief

Owner alerts car lovers to theft of rare Nissan on forum

(Newser) - A car thief in Calgary didn't count on rising to internet fame when he stole a rare Nissan Skyline GTR from a dealer, the New York Times reports. The owner posted a picture of the vehicle on an internet car lovers' forum and before long, his fellow forum members had...

Israeli Army Gets Tough on Facebook Users

To stop info leaks, social soldiers now must follow new rules

(Newser) - Israel is taking steps to neutralize its newest security threat: Facebook. The army is tightening rules on what soldiers can and can't post on the social-networking site, the BBC reports. Apparently, some were putting up photos of themselves posing with top-secret weaponry. "Most of the soldiers don't understand how...

Post to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter In One Shot

Startups look to combine social network feeds

(Newser) - Several new services join personal Internet feeds into a single space, meaning you don’t have to re-post the same new information to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The CEO of Seesmic, a video-conversation service, says it’s frustrating to pick through 10 different social networks—and his company has just...

How a Facebook Post Derailed a Football Player's Life

Lucas Caparelli talks about his ill-considered violent post

(Newser) - For about 90 minutes, his Facebook status read: “Lucas Caparelli: recommends not going to class on Wednesday because he is going to blow up campus.” In those 90 minutes, Caparelli went from a highly-recruited running back to a persona non grata suspended by Wake Forest. “It was...

Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit

ConnectU had accused Zuckerberg of filching social network ideas

(Newser) - Pending lawsuits between Facebook and rival social networking site ConnectU will be settled, a source tells the New York Times. The founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas back when both sites were in their infancy, and the Facebook CEO filed a countersuit against his former Harvard...

Facebook App 'Nose' Where U R
 Facebook App 'Nose' Where U R 
Apr 3, 2008 12:02 PM CDT

Facebook App 'Nose' Where U R

SNIFF allows users to pinpoint cell phone locations

(Newser) - A Facebook application launching in the UK will put people’s friends on the map—in real time, reports the Times. The Social Network Integrated Friend Finder or ‘Sniff’ app lets users pinpoint a friend’s cell phone down to the nearest 650 feet. Privacy is a priority: users...

New Site Wants Your Wikipedia Rejected Bio

Biographicon invites the real average Joes to tell their tales

(Newser) - While Wikipedia may promote itself as an encyclopedia of, for, and by the people, anybody who's had his stint as autobiographer cut short by the infamous "notability" requirement knows the site to be otherwise. Or so hope the creators of startup Biographicon, a website that invites the nobodies of...

Top Google Engineer Decamps for EMI Music

Engineering VP is the second senior exec to jump ship in two months

(Newser) - A top Google engineer has signed on to help guide EMI Music through a restructuring, in the wake of its acquisition by after private equity firm Terra Firma, reports the New York Times. Douglas Merrill, Google’s VP of engineering, will become president of digital at the world’s fourth-largest...

Silicon Valley Unplugs for Meetings

Companies go 'topless' to boost employees' attention

(Newser) - Tired of competing for attention with iPhones, BlackBerrys and laptops, some Silicon Valley companies are banning them from meetings. One exec calls it going "topless," short for laptopless, and the Los Angeles Times reports that it's boosting some companies' efficiency. "Aside from just being rude," an...

Chat Rooms Return&mdash;in 3-D
 Chat Rooms Return—in 3-D 
Mar 31, 2008 11:11 AM CDT

Chat Rooms Return—in 3-D

New companies try to bring real-time socializing back to web

(Newser) - A group of Silicon Valley startups is looking to bring the "social" back into social-networking and other popular websites, the New York Times reports. Vivaty is developing 3-D virtual chat rooms users can embed in web pages—including social-networking profiles—and will begin Facebook testing this week. And Meebo’...

Photoshop for the Rest of Us
 Photoshop for the Rest of Us 
Mar 27, 2008 9:00 AM CDT

Photoshop for the Rest of Us

Adobe releases free, web-based image editor

(Newser) - Adobe’s Photoshop has long been the standard for high-end image editing, but for Joe Q. Digital Camera, it’s too imposing, too complicated, and much too expensive. Today, Adobe hopes to fix all that, rolling out Photoshop Express, its free, web-based photo editor. The flash-based editor gives point-and-clickers a...

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