There are lots of somewhat disturbing studies out about children's online presence, and the adult creepiness that inevitably follows. Like this guy, and this guy, and this guy. Are oversharing parents endangering their children? Taiwan's Next Media Animation finds out!
MySpace—remember that?—just unveiled a new logo. A clean, sans-serif bat signal to all the cool kids who left for Facebook: Come back! We're hip; we're with it. We listen to your independent rock and roll music.
Back in our day, you didn't get your first social networking presence until you were at least old enough to walk. But a new study shows 92 percent of American babies under 2 have a social networking presence.
The buzz around Diaspora, a soon-to-be-released, privacy-centric social network, is so strong that the release of its early source code has generated dozens of blog posts. We have no idea what these letters and numbers mean!
Remember that hoodie with the strange, cult-like symbol inside that Mark Zuckerberg wore to the D8 conference? In June, one was sold on eBay for over $4,000. If you're pissed about missing that chance to waste money, here's another.
Everyone's familiar with how businesses use our personal information to deliver targeted advertising online. But new developments in predictive analysis goes far beyond that, allowing companies to use thousands of points of data to make startlingly specific assumptions about customers.
Diaspora, the open-source, privacy-minded social network, has great online buzz, thanks to $200,000 in start-up funds raised exclusively through Kickstarter and a dirty nerdy joke they slipped past the Times. Now, a launch date is set: September 15th. [Wired]
Quick: What's the best way for a politician to broadcast short, nearly-incomprehensible missives to the world? No, it's not by hacking into Wolf Blitzer's teleprompter before The Situation Room. Twitter! Here are the seven scientifically-determined "Twitter geniuses" of the Senate.
Facebook is going to hit 500 million users next week. And they're celebrating by letting you share your "Facebook stories" with the world. Get ready for one million really creepy stalking tales.
