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The future of FacebookIn the online world, the pressure exerted by network effects constantly threatens to produce winner-takes-all outcomes. Facebook calls on ex-detective to name social networking siteSource of Daily Maily story refuses to divulge "well-known social network" where he posed as girl of 14 and received sexual approaches. How big is the Facebook economy?Investors are pumping money into web services that are reliant on Facebook. So how big is the economy around the world's most popular social network? Chatroulette: Risqué chat service or pornographic site?Webcam service developed to allow strangers to chat online has become fast track to carnal gratification for some people. Plans for '.xxx' porn net domain revivedNearly three years after plans to create a new internet domain specifically for pornography were blocked, the idea could be back on the table. How to decline Facebook friends without offenceI don't want to offend them, but nor do I want to share my candid photos and lousy Scrabble scores with someone I hardly know. Two futures of the internet: Cold War or up in the cloudsWill the future be cyber-attacks and an uneasy balance of terror or cultural collaboration hosted by Google's servers? Top five Twitter gaffesThe past year has seen been a string of slip-ups on the micro-blogging service, from cricketers to Vodafone staff. Woolies campaign 'hijacked'This feel-good story -- of how a Woolworths campaign gone wrong was hijacked by a web company and used to benefit an NGO -- is causing waves. Web celebsGiven the millions of bloggers, it’s no mean feat for them to get noticed, let alone famous. But here are some who’ve catapulted to web celeb status. Streaming will never stop downloadingFar from being a cure for the industry's woes, streaming wastes bandwidth, reduces privacy and slows innovation
No point in advertising to Facebook's 350m usersThe software-engineering and server-farm infrastructure needed to support 350-million users burns money, and so does the bandwidth they use. South Africans go searching on Google for ...Which politician did most South Africans search for in 2009? If you're thinking President Jacob Zuma, think again. British press group charges for online newsA British newspaper group started charging for online content on Monday in a groundbreaking experiment. Web addresses to get non-Latin charactersThe internet is on the verge of its biggest shake up in 40 years, and the most significant one since it crossed from academia to commerce in 1993. Internet shakeup loomsA global regulatory body on Friday approved a new multilingual address system, which it said would open up the internet to millions more people. Google makes being a tourist in SA simplerGoogle on Wednesday unveiled a more functional version of Maps for the country. Hackers target Guardian websiteThe Guardian has emailed "up to half a million" users of its Jobs website to tell them that some of their data may have been compromised. Seventy percent oppose ban for UK filesharersPlans to force internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect suspected illegal downloaders have been roundly rejected in a new poll. Confess your symptoms of information overloadA study finds that once workers were interrupted by an email it took on average 24 minutes to return to the suspended task. TOPICS IN THIS SECTION
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