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Facebook founder tops Agenda Setters list
News Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder and CEO of social networking site, Facebook, has been named the most influential person in tech for 2007. Facebook was launched just over three years ago and now has 42 million active users around the world. [17 Oct 2007]
Bringing the Chicago Sun-Times to Facebook
White Paper Design and development of the YourSeason Facebook application; targeting teens and young adults. Chicago Sun-Times News Group, one of the Nation's largest news outlets, serving over 120 communities. The Chicago Sun-Times, under tight deadlines and... [28 Mar 2008]
Facebook is "educational", says US uni
News Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build beneficial technological, creative and... [23 Jun 2008]
Is Facebook key to teaching staff better security?
News GE Commercial Finance's IT security and risk analyst, Ashley Jones, said he has noticed staff putting far too much information on websites such as Facebook, including where they work and their date of birth - key details he is trying to get staff... [30 Oct 2007]
Leader: Should you ban Facebook?
Leader The rise and rise of social networking phenomenon Facebook has put the spotlight on how businesses should monitor and respond to staff use of such sites during the working day. It's just a fad," maybe a common response to putting in a social... [31 Aug 2007]
LinkedIn takes a leaf out of Facebook
News But unlike Facebook, LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform will also allow companies to add LinkedIn features to their own websites. Liz O'Donnell, international director of LinkedIn, told silicon.com: "What's different about this, if you... [11 Dec 2007]
MySpace vs Facebook: The race is on...
News MySpace attracts the largest number of social network users in the UK but Facebook is catching up fast. According to figures from digital research group ComScore, MySpace had 10.76 million unique UK visitors in June 2007 and Facebook attracted... [01 Aug 2007]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment Youngsters may be "tech savvy" but sending text messages doesn't come into most job descriptions and having a MySpace page or Facebook entry won't qualify you as a web designer either. Please send me fish for my Facebook Aquarium. [23 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake
Comment When you meet friends or colleagues and have a few minutes to kill, take a punt on how long it takes for someone to mention Facebook. I say Facebook as the social networking phenomenon du jour but give yourself points for the mention of Bebo... [31 Jul 2007]
Business execs snub Facebook
News Social networking website Facebook is being snubbed by professional executives because of the increasing number of "silly applications" and lack of business use. Just one of the 12 IT executives in silicon.com's weekly CIO Jury IT user poll said... [11 Jan 2008]
BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch
Comment We've got people who are carrying BlackBerrys who are using Facebook. Someone the other day told me that Facebook was banned at their school but she had a BlackBerry and suddenly she became the most popular person in school. [18 Mar 2008]
Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?
Leader Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter accolade, according to the aggregated votes from silicon.com's panel of experts. But, with Zuckerberg, has a massive tidal wave of social networking... [15 Oct 2007]
Leader: How and why?
AS Analysis Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter accolade, according to the aggregated votes from silicon.com's panel of experts. But, with Zuckerberg, has a massive tidal wave of social networking... [12 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.08.08
Round-Up Facebook: The Movie is about to become a reality. I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name, which I find more flattering than creepy. The movie won't be out for couple of years so the actor who will eventually... [29 Aug 2008]
Cisco: Businesses must learn from social networks
News He said: "A lot of you should go spend time on Facebook and MySpace. We have 1,500 employees on Facebook because we don't have the internal tools to provide community," Scheinman said. That's according to Dan Scheinman, senior vice president of... [03 May 2007]
