profiles

News.blog: Facebook gets gender specific

News We've gotten feedback from translators and users in other countries that translations wind up being too confusing when people have not specified a sex on their profiles," according to Gleit's post. A blog post from Facebook product manager Naomi...

Tags: feed, mini, post, stories

30 June 2008, 9:13

News.blog: Facebook adds Mini-Feed comments

News Currently, Facebook allows members to comment on one another's 'walls', as well as on individual photos, posted items, videos and other pieces of media that they share on their profiles. The Mini-Feed, introduced in 2006 to initial shock and...

Tags: friends, activity, feeds, feed

26 June 2008, 8:44

News.blog: MySpace readies major site redesign

News One of the most heavily altered sections of the new MySpace is search; now, MySpace members will navigate through a set of tabs to search personal profiles, music profiles, the entire MySpace site, videos on MySpaceTV or the Web as a whole.

Tags: testing, platform, profile, youtube

13 June 2008, 9:38

News.blog: Facebook allows profile data sharing

News It's likely to be popular with users eager to quell the onset of 'social fatigue' from too many logins and profiles, but privacy and security advocates may raise a red flag -- as might advertisers, to whom

Tags: profile, platform, post, countries

12 May 2008, 9:08

The Cloud puts up European Wi-Fi 'umbrella'

News Mycloud is also a social network of sorts, in that users can link up their profiles with their friends' profiles, making it possible to share access to home hotspots when those friends are visiting. Wi-Fi network operator The Cloud has launched an...

Tags: fi, wi fi, enabled, laptops

8 May 2008, 8:46

UK kids taking the Blyk for free calls

News Blyk users are asked to volunteer information about themselves and their interests, enabling the company to build up detailed profiles for targeting ads. An ad-funded mobile network that offers free calls and texts to 16- to 24-year-olds has signed...

Tags: rate, cent, ad, response

28 April 2008, 9:16

eBay addresses boycott over feedback

News From May, eBay is banning sellers from posting negative feedback in order to avoid unjustified comments posted on buyers' profiles unfairly compromising their reputations.The company suggested some sellers alter their feedback ratings by...

Tags: comments, buyers, seller, sellers

22 April 2008, 9:09

News.blog: Facebook updates privacy, adds IM

News Facebook members will now be able to choose how much of their profiles are visible to those on their friends list. Naomi Gleit, Facebook's product manager for privacy and internationalisation, previewed the updated options, which include a new...

Tags: messaging, party, friend, profiles

19 March 2008, 9:11

News.blog: Facebook to launch IM service

News Facebook plans to launch an instant-messaging application for members to embed on their profiles as early as next week, TechCrunch reported on Friday. Details are sketchy, but it appears that this will be a Web-based IM service that would allow...

Tags: platform, messaging, party, house

17 March 2008, 9:02

News.blog: A new look for Facebook

News Facebook first announced last year that it was working on a redesign of members' profiles. As more and more information is available on Facebook -- more photo albums, more applications and more history -- we've realised that Profiles have become...

Tags: feed, tab, profile, profiles

27 February 2008, 9:21

News.blog: Facebook probed over privacy

News Maybe they were pulled voluntarily due to embarrassing content, or involuntarily due to inappropriate material -- either way, sometimes social-networking profiles get deleted. We all know by now that Social Ads, the advertising program that the...

Tags: profile, profiles, networking, deleted

23 January 2008, 9:05

Social networking risky, young people told

News And on top of this, 80 per cent of girls aged 16-17 said they accept friend requests on their social network sites from people they don't know and more than 70 per cent surveyed are unconcerned that their personal profiles can be viewed by strangers.

Tags: names, details, cent, research

26 November 2007, 9:38

News.blog: News Corp to buy LinkedIn?

News LinkedIn, an increasingly competitive player in the social media market, recently started allowing its members to upload a photograph to accompany their profiles and -- a la Facebook -- opened up an application programming interface to allow third...

Tags: myspace, news corp, linkedin, rupert murdoch

23 November 2007, 8:48

MySpace calls up deal with Skype

News Through this deal, MySpace users will be able to link their profiles to Skype accounts, and will be able to place voice chat calls through the MySpace and Skype are set to announce a tie-in that will see the eBay-owned telephony client providing...

Tags: ebay, chat, voice, client

17 October 2007, 9:11

News.blog: Facebook app sold for $3m?

News Through a clickable map interface, users can colour-code countries that they've visited, lived in, or want to visit, and display the whole chart on their profiles. Who knew that Facebook Platform applications might one day be million-dollar...

17 August 2007, 9:06