Is California Social Networking Laws About to Change?
Social media users have all been affected by changing privacy settings without notice or even our knowledge.  A new law might get passed called Social Network Privacy Act.  Facebook among others are worried because the law is set to make social networks private by default. Not to my surprise, a coalition of 17 companies and trade groups that includes eHarmony, Facebook, Google, the Internet Alliance, [...]

by Michael Arrington on January 27, 2010 Each year the World Economic Forum at Davos holds number of technology focused sessions. Last year I moderated a high profile discussion about the next digital experience. This year, Loic Le Meur is hosting a discussion on the growth of social networks. Participants include Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn, Greylock), Owen Van Natta (MySpace), Gina Bianchini (Ning), Evan Williams (Twitter) [...]

One of the best (and worst) features on Twitter is the hashtag. It allows you to find interesting topics, intellectual tweeters and real-time information. It also subjects you to multiple spammings everyday (#RIPKanye anyone?). And with the recent (okay, a couple months ago) integration of the search tool on your Twitter homepage, hashtags are easier to use than ever. So in order to dig through [...]