A teen boy upset with a female classmate for unfriending him on Facebook reportedly threw a pot of boiling water in the girl's face after holding both her and her mother hostage inside their own home.
The mugging may have taken place over three decades ago, but it's been weighing on Michael Goodman's conscience ever since.
Since being portrayed as a hard-partying tech playboy by Justin Timberlake in the Social Network, it has become impossible for Napster founder Sean Parker to have a party that is not a crazy blowout because of his new reputation. He tells the Post:
Twitter announced today it will natively host pictures within tweets, making it "easier than ever" to upload snapshots. Which is odd, given that the entire country spent this week discussing how it's way too easy to upload snapshots to Twitter.
When Justin Timberlake was preparing to play Napster inventor and early Facebook investor Sean Parker in The Social Network, he asked for the real-life Parker's help and was famously rebuffed. Makes sense: Post-Social Network, Parker isn't happy at all with his newfound fame.
"Did a lot of girls contact you and your brother after the movie?" Newsweek asked Social Network villain Tyler Winklevoss. His response was a series of flustered giggles and awkward stammering.
According to Microsoft, one in five email messages is a status update from a social networking site. To help you deal with that, they are teaching you how to turn off email updates. No! Wait! They are revamping Hotmail.
Eric Leebow is a self-proclaimed "Internet visionary" and the CEO of Freezecrowd. According to Leebow, Freezecrowd is like an online college yearbook, where one can "tag" people in photos and view their friends list. Sound familiar? Inside, Leebow is exposed.
Raytheon made an iPhone app for mapping units a combat zone, and for new types of communication, like "friending" other tanks. It'll presumably sell for, like, $50,000 in Apple's military app store, and still earn less than iFart. (Pic)
Welcome to the Silicon Valley hype cycle: One year, and you're over. That seems to be the consensus on Facebook's vaunted platform, whose one-year anniversary went largely unremarked. The company itself didn't blog about it until today, and sources tell us an open-bar party Facebook held in Palo Alto was low-key to…
For all the buzz Facebook enjoys in its hometown, the social network, oddly enough, is more popular up north, travel website Gridskipper reveals in a new map. Forget the stereotype of Facebook as being for college kids. Really, it's for Canadians. Toronto is the #1 local network by number of Facebook members;…
TIM FAULKNER — Tagged, yet another social network, has turned the popularity of engaging friends on the web into a modified phishing and spamming technique by harvesting webmail contacts. Apparently, the "phisher" has been using this technique since October 2006, but invitations from "members" have just begun…
Let the games begin! Vote in the first round of "Snacky or Flacky," where 16 PR folks will enter, but only one will win! First up are two startup publicists, Carlos Odio of shopping search ShopWiki and Paula Gould of MySpace killer TagWorld.
"Social software sucks," a developer told me this weekend, "because it makes people autistic." Society arises naturally from interaction, not a friends list — and forcing it into the latter makes users act autistic. Palopia — a pre-beta social network so new that even Michael Arrington hasn't called them yet —…
Hey, entrepreneurs! In the New Boom, anything but explosive growth is unacceptable. Take a tip from three leading dot-coms and cash in on the Law of Fabricated Returns.
It can't be real — for one, Tom can spell — but the Tom Anderson Yahoo 360 page (headline: "im really glad no one can all the scandalous adult groups i belong too !") sure is cute. And yes, the MySpace founder's friend list is packed with a full Asian chick collection (Tom just needs Pikachu to get a full set). A…
Karl Jacob is taking Wallop out for a spinoff The not-so-hot social network just split from Microsoft as its own (VC-funded) company. TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington (who's tried every social site this side of Adult Friend Finder) says he's seen some of Wallop's new offerings, and it's not just another …
BusinessWeek says it's found "MySpace for the Office." Most of us thought that's what LinkedIn was for. But the new social network site Visible Path wants the company, not the worker, to pay for service.
The New York Times (they are so loveable today!) features Orkut, Google's you're-nobody-til-somebody-loves-you social network invaded by Brazilians in 2004. Over 2 of every 3 Orkut users are registered as Brazilians, and if you trust some massaged numbers, nearly every regular Internet user in Brazil has a profile.
Wired News runs a trend story (journalism rule #42: three weak stories make a trend story) on antisocial networking. The tipping point: Full-blown parody site Snubster. It's the Hot New Joke (and by "new" I mean "dated as 'I'm Rick James, bitch'") that's turning into a healthy little community. It's not the first…
