Features

• Study: Facebook relies on good design to retain users

  By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2012 07:12

  What is Facebook's secret to keeping the world's largest user base content? Sticking to well-proven software design principles, one study has concluded.

• Four ways to become a true social business

  By Jon Ferrara | 04 April, 2012 05:29

  You and I may be fully participating in popular social media like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, but I'll bet your company isn't - at least as well as it could be.

• Four critical trends in IT business continuity

  By Bob Violino | 03 April, 2012 00:28

  In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers.

• Technology argument 6: Facebook vs. Google+ vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn

  By Jeff Caruso | 15 November, 2011 09:37

  Much has changed since we examined the ongoing war between Facebook and Twitter in the autumn of 2010. The stakes are higher, the competition has increased, and we see LinkedIn and Google roaring into the social networking arena like never before.

• Social media, virtual meetings help firms enter markets and save capital

  By Fred O'Connor | 28 October, 2011 08:49

  When cloud computing service provider Nimbula hires employees for its South Africa development office, the Mountain View, California, company turns to social networking, not recruiters, to find workers. The company also uses video conferencing to conduct interviews with job candidates and to demonstrate software to potential customers, which saves travel expenses.

• First Look: Facebook Single Sign-on

  By Alex Wawro | 05 November, 2010 09:03

  Facebook is getting serious about on-the-go social networking with a suite of new features announced during the Facebook Mobile event on Wednesday.

• Can you trust Facebook Places?

  By Robert X. Cringely | 21 August, 2010 07:10

  Facebook, the company many people don't trust to protect their status updates and personal information, is now in the business of collecting location information, thanks to the introduction of its Foursquare/Gowalla killer, Facebook Places.

• Who really runs Facebook?

  By Christopher Null | 06 July, 2010 00:59

  Quick: Who's the CEO of Facebook?

• Can Facebook privacy be simple?

  By Scott Bradner | 02 June, 2010 07:27

  Facebook, according to its CEO, is built around the simple idea that people want to share things with "their friends and the people around them."  

• Is Facebook truly sorry for its privacy sins?

  By Robert X. Cringely | 25 May, 2010 10:27

  Want an expert lesson in how to respond without actually responding and how to apologize without saying you're sorry? Then you need to read Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg's quasi-mea culpa in today's Washington Post. Do it now; I'll wait.

• Good-bye to privacy?

  By Tom Spring | 24 May, 2010 23:56

  New Yorker Barry Hoggard draws a line in the sand when it comes to online privacy. In May he said farewell to 1251 Facebook friends by deleting his account of four years to protest what he calls the social network's eroding privacy policies.

• Social networking exposes business networks to risk

  By Tony Bradley | 28 April, 2010 00:02

  Once upon a time, instant messaging was a consumer technology. That consumer toy worked its way into the corporate network and was eventually not just accepted, but embraced and leveraged as a valuable tool.

• The curious thing About Microsoft Kin

  By JR Raphael | 15 April, 2010 08:33

  Call me crazy, but something about Microsoft's Kin phone just doesn't add up.

• Will Twitter ads tweak tweeters?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 14 April, 2010 08:37

  Now that Twitter has begun to display ads--pardon me, Promoted Tweets--in users' search results, the big question is how millions of loyal Twitter fans will respond. Reaction on the micro-blogging site has been muted thus far--more questions than commentary, actually--and it's apparent that most users haven't seen the new ads yet.

• Geolocation 101: How it works, the apps, and your privacy

  By Daniel Ionescu | 31 March, 2010 01:55

  Facebook wants to know "What's on your mind?" Twitter asks "What's happening?" But that's getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is "Where are you?"--and services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, and Loopt want you to use your smartphone to answer it.