Approach could help software learn how to identify fake accounts with less honorable intentions.
By Tom Simonite
It’s not unusual to have user profiles on multiple social networks, or even separate accounts on sites like Twitter–one for work and one for play. But Kyumin Lee at Texas A&M University has 60 Twitter accounts, and not ...
Microsoft’s Danah Boyd on social networking
Earlier this month, Facebook sought to increase its reach by connecting with other sites across the Web. The Open Graph Protocol, announced at Facebook’s f8 Developers Conference, makes it easier for outside sites to share information with Facebook ...
Will Twitter’s Ad Strategy Work?
This week Twitter launched Promoted Tweets, an advertising platform that sheds light on its much-discussed business model. The platform takes a page out of Google’s advertising playbook by letting advertisers sponsor posts that will appear at the ...
Attackers made sophisticated use of social media sites to steal Indian government data.
Classified documents were stolen from high levels of the Indian government by hackers over the course of several months, according to a report released on Monday night by researchers from the University of Toronto.
The researchers, from the Citizen Lab ...
Spammers Turn to Social Networks
As users have flocked to social networks, so, inevitably, have spammers. And according to a recent experiment, users are much more receptive to spam sent via a social network than over e-mail.
Fake friends: This screenshot shows real users who befriended ...
Web 3.0 design and functionality
Web 3.0 design and functionality
REST, AJAX, Silverlight, Widget Enabled, Taggable, Searchable everything…
Web 3.0 is the Semantic Web, where machine read content like human beings then RSS will be its eyes. RSS technology is still in vast uses especially ...


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