The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed suit (http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/social_network/social_networking_FOIA_complaint_final.pdf) against a number of government agencies for refusing to...

Ever wanted to see the International Space Station but didn't know when or how to look?

There's an app (Twitter) for that.

Start following @twisst and using the information in your profile, it...

In 1968, a teacher named Jane Elliott (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott) performed a seminal experiment with her class of third-graders. Wishing to teach them about prejudice, she told them...

We're already heard about people being fired for calling in sick and then posting on Facebook (http://www.daniweb.com/news/post977333.html).

Now a woman has lost her insurance.

According to...

Here's a switch. Instead of newspapers trying to protect the identities of the people posting to their websites, the newspaper is the one outing them.

As described...

Calling social media sites a "productivity black hole," the UK IT services group Morse said that staff who use Twitter and other social networking sites while at work are costing UK businesses...

Twitter, Inc., has shut down 33 fake Twitter accounts created by Republicans using the names of Democratic state representatives, but fake websites using the Democrats' names are still up.

The...

The 2008 presidential election featured a new emphasis on using the Internet, ranging from raising money to advertising (http://www.daniweb.com/news/story219553.html) to getting support.

It's...

GovLoop, an online social network for government workers that was started by a federal worker, has been sold to GovDelivery Inc., a venture-backed government communications platform, with GovLoop...

A poll on whether President Barack Obama should be assassinated, which was posted to Facebook on Saturday, has been taken down after an investigation by the Secret Service, according to NPR....

In an attempt to build support for a bill that would roll back a ban on Internet gambling enacted when Republicans led Congress, the online gambling industry is running online ads noting that legal...

The Twitter Platform Team is recommending to all Twitter developers that they make sure their applications support 64-bit integers because the popular service has almost reached the limit of 32-bit...

Convention and visitors bureaus -- perhaps more than 300 of them -- are increasingly using Twitter to help market their locations, and a recent study...

A recent panel sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) (http://www.glaad.org/Page.aspx?pid=183) discussed the issue of gay characters in online games, some of which...

It's said about writers that you should never get into a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

But United Airlines has learned not to get into fights with musicians who have videocameras....

It's been known for a while that current and potential future employers (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2555.html) look at people's profiles on social networking sites such as Facebook.

And...

If Richard Posner, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, gets his way, blog postings like this one could be illegal.

On his blog...

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." John Gilmore (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore), founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in 1993.

In the same way...

Given that some courts have found that people can be charged (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3596.html) for violating the terms of service of a particular site, it's important to keep track of...

In what may be a first, a company has bought rights to a Facebook page -- in a bidding war, even. OraBrush, a company that makes tongue cleaners, has outbid Hershey's for the rights to the "Kisses"...

As expected (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4304.html), Representative Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, has introduced legislation (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.2267:) that would...

The continuing saga of Craigslist vs. the state attorneys general took another turn, with South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster contending (http://www.scattorneygeneral.org/) that the...

Following the lead of Facebook users (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4250.html) whose uproar over a change in terms led the social media company to change them back, Twitter users are now...

People are continuing to find new and interesting things to do with Twitter.

One is Stweet (http://www.we-love-the.net/Stweet/), a combination of Twitter and Google Map's Streetview that uses...

Along with a number of other changes brought forth by President Barack Obama’s administration, another one might be the re-legalization of online gambling -- particularly poker -- in the United...

A mainstay of situation comedies is when one of the characters plays hooky at work to go do something else -- bowling, watching a ball game, going to the movies -- and gets caught. Never fails.
...

Craig Newmark, the San Francisco-based founder of the Craigslist want-ad site, is reportedly (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/25/craig-newmark-im-not-plan_n_191350.html) refusing pressure to...

Though the swine flu just began hitting the news media on Friday or so, there's already a number of sites and ways to help you keep track of developments (and give you nightmares, frankly, but...

Taser International, which makes electric stun guns, is suing (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aR6xHcnBMn9M&refer=us) Linden Research Inc., the owner of the Second Life...

It has nothing to do with it; it's spam. It'll be deleted shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Despite a study earlier this year (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3795.html) that the fears of Internet predation against kids were overblown, the U.S. Department of Justice is offering...

The non-technical world is starting to understand the concept of Twitter -- which means that they're starting to try to control it.

Courtrooms have already begun dealing...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been booted from Twitter after the social networking service said an account set up in his name was by an impersonator.

The account, @OHHDL -- for The Office of His...

Coincidentally, the New York Times today did a story about a girl who got slapped with the "cyberbully" label for criticizing a teacher -- and now she's suing.
...

Remember the Idaho legislator who wanted to outlaw anonymous blogging?

He’s back.

The good news is, Representative Steve Hartgen, R-Twin Falls, no longer is trying to outlaw anonymous blogging...

Long, long ago, when the net was flat and only geeks knew how to register domain names, a few savvy people started signing themselves up to own domain names like "www.mcdonalds.com," with the thought...

As a sign of how mainstream social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are, people are starting to wring their virtual teeny hands about the proper etiquette around various situations.

Do...

Prince Harry is now single.

The Associated Press (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifldrouFoXOW3dAwmD8W8xNz5MSgD95UV8N04) is reporting that Britain's News of the World tabloid...

Incidentally, LiveJournal went through this a couple of years ago as well. http://community.livejournal.com/boob_nazis/1763041.html

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