http://news.cnet.com/8300-13577_3-36.html The Social en-us CNET News' Caroline McCarthy is a downtown Manhattanite who believes that, despite popular opinion, the Web can actually help your social life. She's happily addicted to fun social-media tools from Twitter to Yelp to Facebook. 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:11:00 PDT Facebook debuts 'fan box' tool http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10282529-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

The fan box for Coca-Cola.

(Credit: Facebook)

Here's something new from Facebook: the "fan box," which is a new tool for celebrities, brands, products, companies, and other entities with Facebook "fan pages" to effectively embed their Facebook presence into their Web sites.

That means that if you go to ...


]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10282529-36.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:11:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy Facebook movie screenplay reportedly doesn't suck http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10282369-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

Whoa! Blogger Carson Reeves of Scriptshadow got his hands on the screenplay for "The Social Network," the adaptation of Ben Mezrich's semi-salacious Facebook tell-all "The Accidental Billionaires," and he gives it a thumbs-up.

More specifically, he said that the 162-page script, penned by "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin, "really

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]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10282369-36.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:20:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy So is Facebook for old people now or what? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10281339-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

AAAAAAHHHH! Here come the grown-ups!

You've probably heard it already: New numbers from iStrategyLabs indicate that in the apparent reversal of the plot of any '90s-era kiddie caper flick, grown-ups are taking over Facebook.

According to iStrategyLabs, from January to July of 2009, even though the population of Facebook ...

]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10281339-36.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:36:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy Kindle patents lay out plan for ads http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10280884-93.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

Amazon.com has filed for a number of patents that hint at ad-supported books for its Kindle e-reader--more specifically, a free or discounted ad-supported e-book for customers who buy the physical version.

Amazon Technologies, a subsidiary of Amazon, filed for a patent ("Method and system for access to electronic version ...

Originally posted at News - Digital Media

]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10280884-93.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:11:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy Andreessen: Facebook revenue to top $500 million in '09 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10280207-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

Facebook board member Marc Andreessen, who just launched a new venture fund, said in an interview with Reuters (published Monday) that he expects the company's revenue to be in excess of $500 million in 2009, and that in five years it'll be well into the billions.

"Generally speaking, ...

]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10280207-36.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:17:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy Boston to launch complaint-filing iPhone app http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10279929-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial The city of Boston is set to launch an official iPhone application for residents to file complaints about "neighborhood nuisances--nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights," according to The Boston Globe.

Called Citizen Connect, the app will let Bostonians send pictures and tips right to City Hall.

The app was ...

Originally posted at Crave

]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10279929-1.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:29:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy ABC content starts arriving on Hulu http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10279870-93.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

It's here, sort of. Several months after the big announcement that content from Disney's ABC Entertainment division would be coming to Hulu, the entertainment conglomerate's shows have started arriving.

The primetime drama "Grey's Anatomy" debuted on the video hub Monday, and more shows will roll out ...

Originally posted at News - Digital Media

]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10279870-93.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:11:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10278483-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial Lori Drew, the woman convicted of using a hoax MySpace profile to harass a teenage girl to the point of suicide, was acquitted by a Los Angeles judge on Thursday, Wired reported.

Judge George Wu overturned Drew's guilty verdict, which was issued in November, saying that if Drew had ...

]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10278483-36.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:26:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy Ad industry groups agree to privacy guidelines http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10278182-93.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial A coalition of advertising industry trade groups have agreed on new guidelines for privacy related to behavioral targeting on the Web. Officially released on Thursday and expected to go into effect early next year, the set of principles concern what advertisers can do with personal data collected in order to ...

Originally posted at News - Digital Media

]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10278182-93.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:27:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy Court: MySpace not liable for offline assaults http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10278001-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

Social-networking sites and other Web services can't be held liable in a sexual assault on a minor that stemmed from a meeting online, according to a ruling in a California appeals court that consolidated a number of complaints against MySpace on behalf of teenage girls and their parents.

Reuters ...

]]> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10278001-36.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:26:00 PDT Caroline McCarthy