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more about #socialnetworks more comments → Motoko Kusanagi: Looks like fun. Randy anti-corporate holiday parties with Asian chicks is where Northern California shines. more » Maxichamp: Something in those photos tells me half the female staffers are alumnae from a certain Asian sorority at Cal. more » DahlELama: Huh. Just learned I am nowhere near attractive enough to work at Yelp. more » lesbiansayswhat: The only significant change I can see is that the lower version isn't showing ads, which makes a huge difference. I can take all the schizophrenia of ... more » Penscribe: If a sex offender can live on your block, I have no idea how people will lawfully keep them off social media Web sites. more » OldTowneTavern: Oh, my God! It's going to be in French?! Oh, I knew I should have paid more attention to whatever the hell Mireille et Robert were parlezing about. ... more » econdave: Which one is Roman Polanski on? And has Whoopi Goldberg friended him? more » mimigoliath: Oh my god, Facebook has the worst case of body dysmorphic disorder EVER. more » Senor_Wences: Where's Spirit Fingers? Spirit! You make a cameo appearance in the "before" grab! Yay, Spirit! more » jordos1: I'm waiting for the redesign where I don't have to read that some person I've met in 1997 for 3 seconds won 2.7 million dollars killing mobsters, or j... more » contradicto: #gawkersattempttoapetwitter (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) I just wish Facebook would stop asking me to reconnect with people I see every god damn day. more » Shadowlayer: Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place... more » Magister: In the brick and mortar world, it's often been the state attorney generals or the FTC who first step up about misleading recurring charges scams (see ... more » PontiusPirate: I hear Farmville's customer service team has been offshored to Nigeria, where the locals are very adept at running these types of operations. more » katekate is squared: Cue 10,000 "they were stupid for falling for it!" comments. more » -
#holidaze
Yelp's Holiday Party Way Lustier Than Yours
At Yelp, every review is a chance for free drinks, every email a chance for distasteful punning — and every company party a chance to leer, spank and orgy out. Judging from the pictures, 2009's holiday bash was no exception.
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#socialnetworks
Facebook Absolutely Demolishing MySpace in the Sex Offender Demographic
About 3,500 New York sex offenders have been kicked off Facebook and MySpace after identifying their accounts under a new state law. And, go figure, like 80 percent of them were on Facebook. Even sex fiends are ditching MySpace. More » -
#socialnetworks
Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
Someone in France stumbled across an apparent new version of Facebook with a simplified interface. It looks like the social network is still fixing the information overload introduced by its disastrous redesign. More » -
#lawsuits
Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company's top-drawer investors can be happy.
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#howthingswork
Investors Punish Online Scam Trafficker with $15 Million
Just as the public was learning that a huge chunk of Zynga's social gaming revenue came from scammy "quizzes" and "special offers," Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capitalists rewarded the company with $15 million. Hey, that's just how VC's roll. More » -
#facebook
Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
Mark Pincus recently cut off the scamsters who supply his company with revenue. But before he bowed to controversy, the Facebook games merchant was more cavalier about corporate morality, even griping about his "bullshit" Harvard ethics class and idiot classmates. More » -
#facebook
Class Action Suit in the Works for Victims of Social Gaming Scams
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 » -
#passiveaggressive
Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl
Yelp couldn't have guessed one of its reviewers might end up in a vicious wrestling match with a store owner, right? Wrong: the owner had visited Yelp HQ the day before the fight, been ignored, then turned away. More » -
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#games
The Secret Shame of Social Networking: How Silicon Valley Got Hooked on Scammers
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 » -
#geocities
How to Blow $3.5 Billion
Yahoo finally shuttered Geocities today. Acquired in 1999, Geocities was one of the costliest dot-com duds of of all time: $3.5 billion for an ugly, cash-bleeding homepage hosting service. And to think Google's founders were simultaneously begging server funds. More » -
#socialnetworks
Pretty Boy MySpace CEO Has Dumb Surrender Plan
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 » -
#journalismism
How to Hype Your Tiny Social Network in the New York Times
Foursquare has a piddlingly small user base. Which is precisely why it's is going to rule the world, say people quoted in today's New York Times story on the mobile-phone social network. This should sound familiar. More » -
#socialnetworks
Harvey Weinstein Finally Sells MySpace for Millionaires
Weinstein Company is selling its exclusive social network for rich people to a Swiss heir, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. At last, circumstances have forced the company to do what it should have done years ago. More » -
#publicitystunts
Martha Stewart Seeks Army of Laptop Zombies for Show
Martha Stewart is inviting bloggers with iPhones and laptops into her studio audience. If it's an odd move for the notorious control freak, it's also a recipe for free publicity — and awful television. More » -
#socialnetworks
Facebook Gaydar Emerges From Breakthrough MIT Project
Are you quietly stalking someone and too dense to figure out their sexual orientation from Google searches, Flickr party photos and real-life gossip? Well, a couple of MIT geniuses invented just the tool for you.
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#outages
Flaky Facebook Hinders Employee Procrastination
Some people can't log in into their Facebook accounts, according to widespread reports on Twitter. Apparently, a subset of these people have even resigned themselves to becoming productive employees, on this Monday morning. Horrifying. [Business Insider] [Pic] -
#modernandawkward
Right to Trash Boss on Facebook Defended by Aussie Heroes
Sure, Americans preen about their commitment to freedom, but who's out there standing up for our God-given right to curse the boss on internet social networks? Australian prison guards, that's who. More » -
#moguls
Mark Zuckerberg Rolling in Cash If Not Profits
What advertising depression? Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook is cash flow positive a year ahead of schedule, hitting 300 million users and growing ad sales. Great. Now the social network needs to achieve actual profit, and ditch its beloved funny numbers. -
#facebook
Facebook Movie Cast Not Quite Geeky Enough
Scriptshadow, which obtained the first leaked script for Facebook movie The Social Network, now claims to have casting choices, including Justin Timberlake as Napster's Sean Parker. News In Film created this handy graphic. More » -
#socialnetworks
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