Facebook’s New Way to Combat Child Pornography
Microsoft says it has refined a technology it created called PhotoDNA to identify the worst of child pornography images — even if they are cropped or otherwise altered — and cull through large amounts of data quickly and accurately enough to police the world’s largest online services. And on Thursday, it was announced that Facebook would be the first service to join it in using the free technology, which Microsoft donated to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in December 2009.
Facebook, the largest
Now Facebook Users Can Tag Pages in Photos
There is a new function in Facebook photo albums, which allows to tag in photos products of certain companies and brands, as well as celebrities or the media. The official blog of the social network Inside Facebook informs about it.
So owners of
Facebook investors will sell shares worth billion dollars
A group of Facebook investors intends to sell company’s holding of shares worth a billion dollars, reposts Reuters.
The shareholders are
Facebook Launches “Send” Button
The social network Facebook launched “Send” button, reported TechCrunch on Monday, April 25.
For the
The court dismissed the Winklevosses’ claim against Facebook’s creator
The USA Court of Appeal dismissed the new claim of the Winklevoss brothers against the founder of the service Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, according to the report of Agence France-Presse.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss filed
Obama organises first mass rally of 2012 re-election campaign
In 2008 thousands of Americans turned out to mass rallies in support of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. And the President has just announced plans for his first big rally of his re-election bid as he launches his run for a second term of office in 2012.
But this time
Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Facebook 'Intifada Page'
An American “of Jewish origin” has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for not moving fast enough to remove the “Third Palestinian Intifada” fan page from its site.
The complaint was filed in
Google Introduces +1 Feature that Rivals Facebook's "Like" Button
Google keeps its search algorithm very hush-hush, but now you can have an effect on which links people click on.
Today Google introduced
Facebook Rolls Out New Questions Feature
Cast your vote: Facebook, the world’s leading social network service has launched its brand new Questions feature. The new application- which was anticipated for a long time, especially by users who got a taste of it in its beta phase- works like an addition to your status. It let’s you ask your network their opinion and allows them to choose one of your answers or provide a different one.
For everyday questions
Get a Fake Girlfriend on Facebook
Remember when you were in high school and there was always that one kid who couldn't get a date, so they lied and told everyone they had a girlfriend (or boyfriend) who lived in Canada? They had to pretend to talk to them on the phone so everyone thought they were cool.
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