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Facebook began as a place for college connections, secluded from the prying eyes of the outside world, but today that era is officially over. Major Facebook investor Microsoft announced this

Proposal Would Kill Beacon, Have Facebook Paying $9.5 Million Late last week, a federal judge in California gave preliminary approval to a settlement of the class action lawsuit regarding Facebook's

Google released two new features today for its Google Latitude location-sharing service. You can now put a public location badge with your current location on your blog or web site,

Facebook has just launched a neat new trend mapping tool, called Lexicon. Similar to Google Trends, it allows you to create a trend graph for different words and (two-word) phrases

After a predefined period designed to increase transparency and maximize user feedback, Facebook has announced that, with fewer than 7,000 user comments, it will proceed to implement its proposed amended

Facebook today announced Facebook Connect, its proprietary technology which allows the sharing of data between Facebook and third party applications, can now be integrated into iPhone and iPod Touch applications.

Top government IT officials and representatives from online identity services met today in Washington DC to talk about plans to allow 3rd party certification bodies, called "Trust Framework Providers," to

One of the buzz phrases we've heard a lot this year is "data portability", which means the ability to move your personal data between different applications and vendors. It has

Today I was at the Redmond office of Microsoft and it was an interesting day of discussions about... well I'm not allowed to say due to NDA. But most of

The kerfuffle over Verizon's charming 45-day opt-out period is one more in a long, long chain of incidents that explain why privacy advocates' foreheads have such distinctive brick-wall scarring on