Facebook Works on Major Update to Become More Spam-Resistant
	Facebook, the so-popular social networking website, is currently working on a major update which will bring several improvements to the service. One of the most important updates is related to the security of its users because Facebook wants to make the profiles more spam-resistant and reduce the amount of spam messages delivered to Facebook members. Moreover, thanks to user feedback, the Facebook administrators find out that mos ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 04:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gay Facebook Page Causes Promotion Denial
	There’s a lot of discrimination today even though the world has evolved a lot since the day people of other color or religious belief were killed on sight. Like any form of warfare, the methods used for discriminating have gone deeper underground into the human psyche. Olden days saw armies of hundreds of thousands amassed on a battlefield, facing each other and shouting to discourage their opponents. Nowadays, guerilla war is th ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Porn on Friend’s Profile WILL Get You Convicted!
	"Now this is a story all about how/ My life got twisted upside down." These were the starting two lines from Will Smith’s "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song. The following is also a story about how Officer John Nohelj’s life went awry, and all that because of one of his friends on MySpace. Like the majority of the people accessing the Internet, John had a profile on one of the social networks in fashi ... [read more >>]
	28 January 2008, 17:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Famous People TinFinger Omnibus Here
	TinFinger was launched yesterday to be the user-generated omnibus the market seemed to need. Or, at least that's what its founders must have thought feeling a lack of sites that contain information on celebrities on the web and considering that another would be most welcome. It is designed to combine encyclopedic profile pages its users ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 08:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook: Hide Apps from Profile
	Facebook is the breeding ground at the moment for the applications that seem to be appearing out of thin air. It is the best means of advertising that an app maker could have ever dreamed of (except the case it were to be Microsoft) and the best way to make yourself noticed by some of the bigger guys in the game. Sadly for them, the Palo Alto based company has decided to ad a profile clean-up tool that will allow users to hide ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BigSight.org, a Site Attempting to Become the White Pages on the Internet
	People search is a big red danger area for any sites attempting to add it to their requisitory, even as an idea. Many have tried to do this and still try (take Facebook for example, or any other social networking site that deals with a lot of personal information), but that always lead to a lot of talk about privacy and the likes of it. Big shady area, if you care to imagine it. Yet here comes ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 08:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Profiles Out to File You
	The path Google is walking on is a tricky one, the Internet users are still fresh after the Facebook problem that they’ve seen escalate and, eventually, come to a very abrupt ending with the CEO of the social network apologizing. Perhaps this might not be the best moment to push forward the "Google Profiles" idea, because of the hype about privacy that is still going on. It has already been introduced as a concept wi ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Maps Turning Into A Social Network?
	Although it might sound a little bit crazy, Google Maps is slowly turning into a social network. Sort of... First, the Mountain View company implemented the My Maps function which allows the consumers to create their own maps and share them with other Google Maps users. Today, the Profile Pages are officially rolled out and enables any of you to see more details about a certain consumer who built maps and published them on the we ... [read more >>]
	18 October 2007, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Digg Goodies Waiting For Your Click
	Digg is surely one of the top web technologies nowadays since it records impressive amounts of traffic every day. In case you never heard of it although I think it's impossible unless you were born yesterday, Digg is a news website based entirely on the content submitted by the registered members who post articles found all around the Internet. This is not only useful for Digg but also for the original author of the news bec ... [read more >>]
	21 September 2007, 15:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Privacy Concerns Over The Facebook Public Profiles
	A few days ago, the Facebook executives, a top web-based social networking service, announced that their product will make the profiles of the registered users public and accessible to anyone. Until now, you were able to view somebody's information only if you were registere ... [read more >>]
	07 September 2007, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Looking For Sex? Here You Go!
	Let's say you are a blog reader and you want to find additional blogs with same topics as your own. How can you search for them beside going to Google and typing the desired keyword? Well, the Mountain View company Google found the perfect solution and implemented a special feature into the famous blogging service Blogger to allow you to do that. Basically, you can check someone's profile to view his main interests and, ... [read more >>]
	09 August 2007, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

29.000 Sex Offenders Looking for Teens
	MySpace removed no less than 29,000 profiles from its social networking website that were flagged as sex offenders although the company officially said that 7,000 persons were banned from the service. This new number was discovered when the authorities required private information about the sex offenders straight from MySpace, the Reno Gazette Journal reports today. If you make some simple math operations, it’s clear that MySpac ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Make the Profile of a Mass Shooting Killer
	We may get pissed off many times by the spoiled children of rich men and their behavior, but I bet you won't take a gun and become Rambo. Perhaps the greatest question that the infamous mass shooting at Virginia Tech left in our minds is: what was in the mind of that individual, Cho Seung-Hui, to trigger such a rage and its lethal consequence? It would be such a relief to be able to track down this kind of personality, but experts ... [read more >>]
	20 April 2007, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Simple Outlines Reveal to Us Sex, Race and Age
	You may believe that race is something not so obvious, but adult brains are so keen in detecting race, sex and age that we can correctly determine those traits from nothing more than a black-and-white silhouette, new experiments show. "It's surprising how much information the silhouette provides," said lead researcher Nicolas Davidenko, a cognitive psychologist at Stanford University. "We rarely have to identify ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2007, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia