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Multi-City Tour Offers Training on Developing Web-Scale Social Apps on the Cloud

SANTA CLARA, CA July 23, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Joyent Inc. today announced a collaboration that will accelerate the development and deployment of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. Providing up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent's Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost.    » read more »

123 Illinois Sex Offenders from MySpace Discovered on Facebook

May 8, 2008 -- Chicago - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today that Facebook has agreed to make key changes to its social networking site that will better protect children from predators and inappropriate content.

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Madigan joined the attorneys general of 49 other states and the District of Columbia in the agreement resulting in actions by Facebook similar to those MySpace agreed to in January 2008.    » read more »

May 8, 2008 -- (Anchorage, AK) -- Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg and the attorneys general of 48 other states and the District of Columbia today announced that Facebook has agreed to changes to better protect children from predators and inappropriate content on the social networking site.

Facebook logo: Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid (CC)

Facebook also agreed to participate in a task force on exploring and developing age and identity verification software. The agreement is similar to one that MySpace reached in January with 49 states and the District of Columbia.    » read more »

Las Vegas, NV,CTIA Wireless 2008 - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) today announced that downloads of the Facebook® for BlackBerry® Smartphones application have surpassed the 1,000,000 mark. The easy-to-use mobile software application, which leverages the push-based BlackBerry(R) service and Facebook(R) Platform to offer an unparalleled mobile experience for Facebook users, was launched at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2007 show on October 24, 2007.    » read more »

Thursday, February 2, 2008, FORT LAUDERDALE -- CBSSports.com today announced it has developed and will host an official NCAA® March Madness® Brackets application that will be offered and promoted to the Facebook® users for the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

Located at facebook.com/brackets, CBSSports.com Tournament Brackets will be available to the site's more than 63 million active users both online and via CBS Sports Mobile, creating a cross platform experience for all NCAA Basketball fans.    » read more »

January 07, 2008 -- AOL today announced major enhancements to its leading personal media products with new features in BlueString, the first free Website that enables users to easily upload, store, consume, manage and share digital media; and the upcoming release of a new beta version of Xdrive (www.xdrive.com), the leading personal hard drive on the Internet allowing consumers to store, access, share and backup their files. Both products will be demonstrated at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and are scheduled for general release in the first quarter of 2008.    » read more »

With chapters in all 50 states, Ron Paul’s agenda for freedom resonates with youth

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – With over 50,000 members, the ‘Students for Ron Paul’ Facebook group far exceeds the membership of all other Republican presidential candidates.

Equally impressive is the number of chapters of ‘Students for Ron Paul’ that young people have started across the nation. There are over 375 chapters of ‘Students for Ron Paul’ in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.    » read more »

ABC News and Facebook Partner to Foster Ongoing Debate And Deliver Political Content for 2008 Election

Monday, November 26, 2007 -- ABC News and Facebook have launched a partnership focused on the 2008 Presidential election. In this first-of-its-kind collaboration, Facebook will feature an application that will provide its 56 million active users with tools for supporting candidates and discussing the campaign on Facebook, combined with ABC News political content and information, including the latest news from the campaign trail.    » read more »

11.07.2007 -- CBS today announced it is utilizing Facebook Ads to tap into an online community of "The Amazing Race" fans while attracting new viewers through targeted outreach, word-of-mouth referrals, and viral campaigns aimed at enabling fans to introduce the show to their friends, and their friends' friends. The building of the online community around "The Amazing Race" will be done via a "The Amazing Race" Facebook Page which will include interactive content tied to the program.    » read more »

Agreement Requires Prompt Response to Complaints and New Disclosure to Parents; Independent Examiner to Report on Compliance

New York, NY (Oct 16, 2007) – New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Facebook today announced a new model to enforce safeguards aimed at protecting its network members, especially children and adolescents, from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment.    » read more »

September 24, 2007 -- Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper today said that they are continuing to lead a 50-state investigation into Facebook.

"This step complements and advances our common effort to protect children from predators, as part of our multi-state investigation into Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites," Blumenthal said "We are negotiating with Facebook -- including a productive, face-to-face meeting with Facebook representatives last week in my Hartford office.    » read more »

September 24, 2007 -- "As I have made clear, those running Web sites that are marketed to children and teen-agers had better do so responsibly. If Web sites put our children at risk, I will pursue every available avenue to stop them.

For the past month, my staff has been investigating the Facebook Web site, culminating in a meeting last week with representatives of Facebook and several attorneys general’s offices.    » read more »

Facebook Ignores Complaints about Sexual Predators

NEW YORK, NY (September 24, 2007) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced today that his office is investigating Facebook over representations the company makes about safety measures in place on its website.    » read more »

5-Sep-2007 -- Controversial Internet entrepreneur turned cultural critic Andrew Keen, who says the revolution of interactivity and user-generated content on the internet is leading to ‘less culture, less reliable news and a chaos of useless information’ is one contributor certain to ignite debate at the two-day conference at the University of York. The conference is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through its e-Society programme.    » read more »