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Facebook held a conference call today about changes being made to the website's privacy features but we were left feeling a little confused. A long list of settings are being

The Google Reader team just announced that it has implemented more granular controls for who you share items with, including the ability to manage a list of friends within Google

According to a report by Justin Smith at Inside Facebook, the social network is planning to roll out three new features in the first quarter of 2008. The first, privacy

According to Lee Lorenzen, of Altura Ventures, and AllFacebook, the "Social Ads" advertising service Facebook is supposedly set to launch next week will take Facebook ads outside the social network.

Last week we wondered if maybe MoveOn was a bit premature in declaring victory when Facebook changed their Beacon advertising system to be explicitly opt-in. Was Facebook still gathering information

In a recent interview with VentureBeat, Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search Products & User Experience, spoke of Google's interest in social search and their future plans in that area. Social

According to a report from Bloomberg today, Mint.com's CEO Aaron Patzer is considering selling anonymized data about the service's users. Mint, the online personal finance aggregator, obviously sits on a

Chances are you wouldn't tell grandma about the wild party you went to last Saturday night. Likewise, you might have spent Sunday evening at home knittin' a mitten and only

Early this morning a coalition of authors, publishers and privacy advocates filed an objection to the Google search settlement case and surprisingly it had little to do with copyright or

Yahoo just announced that the close beta period for its location platform Fire Eagle has ended and that the service is now open for everybody. We wrote about Fire Eagle