profiles

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

News.blog: Is MySpace making news?

News MySpace members will be able to post the stories on their profiles, as well as discuss, promote and submit their own written content to be seen and ranked by other MySpace users. Many MySpace users come online to trade messages with friends and...

12 March 2007, 9:33

MySpace boots out 29,000 sex offenders

News The company, owned by media conglomerate News Corp, said in May it had deleted about 7,000 user profiles that belonged to convicted offenders. The exploding epidemic of sex offender profiles on MySpace -- 29,000 and counting -- screams for action...

25 July 2007, 10:39

News.blog: Facebook to jump on the widget wagon?

News Last month, word began to circulate that Facebook was working on a deal to introduce third-party widgets (embeddable code containing external content like music or video) into its member profiles. While Facebook allows members to 'share' bits of...

22 May 2007, 10:28

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: Video inspires launch of iPod dating site

News The free service allows you to view user profiles, download video profiles to your iPod or any portable music player, and create and upload your own video profile. So far, there are 172 profiles up, but most don't have video yet.

18 November 2005, 9:58

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, 9:44

Facebook apps: this month's must-have

News Now that third-party companies and developers can create custom applications for Facebook members to add to their profiles, building 'Facebook apps' has become a top priority for many Web companies -- particularly smaller ones looking to make it...

18 June 2007, 10:42

MP attacks 'out of control' DNA database

News The total number of records on the UK's national DNA database passed the three million mark this year -- just over five per cent of the UK population -- with the number of crimes solved using the profiles also continuing to rise.

21 February 2006, 9:07

W3C launches a mobile push

News Existing W3C recommendations tailored for use with mobile devices include SVG Mobile Profiles, SMIL Basic Profile and Composite Capability/Preference Profiles, or CC/PP. The Web's leading standards body has launched a ground campaign to promote its...

12 May 2005, 12:12

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...

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8 May 2008, 9:46

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, 10:38

Safari introduces better browser colours

News Apple machines are in widespread use in graphics professional circles, and the operating system supports colour encoding schemes, called profiles and standardised by a group called the International Color Consortium (ICC).

20 June 2007, 10:57

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, 10:11