Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Cartoon Contest

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan The Pakistani government blocked access to the social networking service Twitter on Sunday, after publicly holding Twitter responsible for promoting a blasphemous cartoon contest taking place on Facebook, officials said. A governmen... Read more »

Foursquare Check-Ins Appear On Facebook Timeline Maps

Check-ins made via Foursquare will now pop up on Facebook timeline profiles, the free location-based mobile social networking application announced on its Facebook page. The post which, at the time of this post, totaled more than 2,600 likes and nearly... Read more »

Could iOS Photo Sharing Be Apple’s Next Ping-like Social Failure?

Apple's enjoyed success in almost everything it's done lately, with the exception of social networking. The company may try to change that with iOS 6, the next version of its iPhone and iPad software. Unnamed "people familiar with the matter" tell the ... Read more »

Smartphone App, Social Network Helps Kids Fight Fat

An anonymous social networking website, with an accompanying smartphone app, seemed to help obese youths lose weight without fear of public ridicule, a researcher said. Those who used the site, weigh2rock.com, self-reported a mean weight loss of 7.4 po... Read more »

BlackBerry 7 Smartphones Approved for DOD Use

Research in Motion's BlackBerry 7 smartphones have been approved for use by Department of Defense operations, the company announced. The DOD approval will enable Army and other U.S. military personnel to utilize several features in the BlackBerry 7, in... Read more »

Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign

(at)BarackObama is on Twitter. So is (at)MittRomney. And so are all the voters following the 2012 presidential contest, whether they know it or not. Candidates, strategists, journalists and political junkies have all flocked to Twitter, the social netw... Read more »

Pepsi partners with Twitter for online concerts

PepsiCo Inc. is tweeting to a new generation of music lovers. The No. 2 soda company said Monday that it's partnering with Twitter to provide streaming videos of live music concerts to Pepsi's followers on the social networking site. The deal is part o... Read more »

Researchers create dynamic view of city based on Foursquare check-in data

The millions of "check-ins" generated by foursquare, the location-based social networking site, can be used to create a dynamic view of a city's workings and character, Carnegie Mellon University researchers say. In contrast to static neighborhood boun... Read more »

How To Hide From Face-Detection Technology

This could be a very important skill, pay attention kids! By John D. Sutter for CNN:

If you take Adam Harvey's advice, here's what you might wanna wear to a party this weekend: A funny hat, asymmetrical glasses, a tuft of hair that dangles off your nose bridge and, most likely, a black-and-white triangle taped to your cheekbone. Optional: Cubic makeup patterns all around your eyes. All of these otherworldly fashion accessories – which could leave a person looking kind of like an opulent villain from "The Hunger Games" - have a singular goal: to stop your face from being detected by cameras and computers. Called CV Dazzle (short for "computer vision dazzle;" more on the name later), Harvey's project is a provocative and largely theoretical response to the rise of surveillance cameras on street corners and face-detecting technology that's been incorporated into social networking sites like Facebook and Flickr. If you employ these techniques, Harvey, 30, hopes computers won't even know... Read more »

Nicki Minaj Rejoins Twitter

Dear Barbz, your leader has returned. After a nine-day Twitter hiatus, Nicki Minaj has come back to the social networking site minus several million followers, however. It was April 15 when Nicki drove her legion of fans crazy by disappearing from the ... Read more »

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