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Facebook Named In Federal Class-Action Suit Over Scammy Ads
4:50AM Ryan Tate | Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $US5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company’s top-drawer investors can be happy. More »
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2:15PM Adrian Chen | Is there anything Neil Patrick Harris can’t do? Tonight, the singer/dancer/actor/magician/internet video sweetheart has proved himself to be a master Twitter-er as well. Quick, somebody invent a new technology that this man can use to entertain us.
Neil Patrick Harris’ First Tweet Is A Doozy
2:15PM Adrian Chen | Is there anything Neil Patrick Harris can’t do? Tonight, the singer/dancer/actor/magician/internet video sweetheart has proved himself to be a master Twitter-er as well. Quick, somebody invent a new technology that this man can use to entertain us.
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Hollywood Invents Celebrity Twittering For Dollars
12:37PM Richard Rushfield | When show business spots a corner of public consciousness not colonised by product placement and paid endorsements, its experts spring to work to take care of that. More »
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Papers Find Facebook Status Too Risque To Print
9:39PM Ravi Somaiya | The Post and the Times both covered this story, about a man accused of robbery whose alibi was a Facebook status update. Both papers though, censored the update itself, which was apparently “indecipherable”. Except it wasn’t. More »
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Class Action Suit In The Works For Victims Of Social Gaming Scams
8:39AM Ryan Tate | Facebook and MySpace might finally pay the price for the big social gaming scandal: At least one law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action suit on behalf of duped users. More »
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The Secret Shame Of Social Networking: Scammers
4:42AM Ryan Tate | Silicon Valley pundits like to talk about social media as a potential geyser of cash. What they leave out is that one of the only ways social networks like Facebook, MySpace have done that is joining league with online scammers. More »
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Measure Your Twitter Manhood In An Exciting New Way
12:30PM Ryan Tate | Twitter’s hard-core users, mostly men, tend to size up fellow microbloggers by examining the length of their…follower lists. That’s what they did, at least, until celebrities started dominating Twitter. Now a new yardstick excites the geeks: Twitter lists. More »
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How To Blow $US3.5 Billion
6:43AM Ryan Tate | Yahoo finally shuttered Geocities today. Acquired in 1999, Geocities was one of the costliest dot-com duds of of all time: $US3.5 billion for an ugly, cash-bleeding homepage hosting service. And to think Google’s founders were simultaneously begging server funds. More »
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Pretty Boy MySpace CEO Has Dumb Surrender Plan
8:54AM Ryan Tate | MySpace now says it is no longer competing with Facebook, the rival social network with far more users. No, now MySpace will focus on the niche of music and digital entertainment. And compete with Apple and Google. More »
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