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Tag: FacebookHow Facebook Copes with 300 Million Users VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer reveals the tricks that keep the world's biggest social network going. Privacy Plug-In Fakes out Facebook FaceCloak lets users hide sensitive updates from prying eyes, including Facebook's. Antivirus Protection Gets Social Can cloud computing and social networking improve security software? Last year's "Google-killer" plans a comeback with social search. The Web vs. the Republic of Iran Twitter gives Iranians a voice, but the government still controls the Internet. Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet Economics may explain why it's so hard to find and configure privacy settings on many social networks. Campaign strategists and Facebook's cofounder discuss the 2008 election. The economic downturn and uncertain business plans could result in an industry-wide shakeout. Advertisers are building complex applications to try to engage users on social networks. "It's Not a Revolution if Nobody Loses" A new age of "technological reproducibility" is here. Ugh. A new look changes the game for third-party developers. Social Networking Is Not a Business* Web 2.0--the dream of the user-built, user-centered, user-run Internet--has delivered on just about every promise except profit. Will its most prominent example, social networking, ever make any money? The social network's technology manages a vast and rapidly expanding web of connections for its millions of users. Social-networking sites are fighting over control of users' personal information. The Web is returning to its social roots. But is it getting ahead of itself once again? |
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