Convened via Facebook and Twitter, thousands of demonstrators gathered in the square outside Rabat’s El Had gate on Sunday. Shouting the now familiar slogans — “Down with dictatorship!” “End the corruption!” “We want change!” — they slowly marched down the city’s central artery before coming to a halt at Morocco’s Parliament building.
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Why Zuckerberg should like the Facebook movie
Why Zuckerberg should like the Facebook movie “The Social Network,” the movie dramatization of the founding of Facebook, comes to U.S. theaters on Friday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly opposed the making of the film, which charts his rise to become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Zuckerberg need not worry. “The Social Network” ultimately paints […]
Does your social class determine your online social network?
Like a lot of people, Anna Owens began using MySpace more than four years ago to keep in touch with friends who weren’t in college.
U.S. soldiers recount fierce Afghanistan battle on Facebook
The assault began at dawn, as bullets and rockets peppered the remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan. The insurgency was so fierce, according to one soldier, that the troops couldn’t get to their mortars to fire back
Secret Service investigating Facebook poll on Obama
The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Obama should be killed.
Facebook gets caught in Golan Heights dispute
Logging onto Facebook as a resident in the Golan Heights, should you enter Syria or Israel as your home country? Decades of war and occupation have not provided an answer to that question — but the social networking Web site now permits both options, sparking fears about an anti-Facebook cyber-war
Obama launches Web site to reach public
Barack Obama had a formidable online presence during his quest for the White House, and he is once again turning to the Internet to communicate with the American public as president-elect. Within 24 hours of last week’s historic vote, his transition team rolled out change.gov, a Web site that promises to be “your source for the latest news, events and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Obama administration.” The site is still a little thin on content, but there’s a blog, a newsroom and a countdown to the January 20 inauguration
Lost for words: Facebook may lose Scrabulous
Popular social networking site Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its Web site by the makers of Scrabble, agencies have reported.
Social networks provide new lessons in learning
As millions of students across the world go back to school this month, 178 students from 49 countries will turn on their computers and step onto the virtual campus of the world’s first global, tuition-free online university. Called University of the People, the non-profit, California-based endeavor comes from Israeli entrepreneur Shai Reshef who says he founded the school to provide higher education to those who might otherwise never have access to it.
How Facebook Is Affecting School Reunions
Who got fat, who got hot, and is that old crush of mine still single? Whatever happened to that weird kid with the hair