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The future of Facebook

0 comment(s) | In 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 site

0 comment(s) | Source of Daily Maily story refuses to divulge "well-known social network" where he posed as girl of 14 and received sexual approaches.

Sex.com goes under the hammer

0 comment(s) | The internet's most valuable domain name, sex.com, is back on the auction block -- and bidding starts at $1-million.

How big is the Facebook economy?

0 comment(s) | 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?

1 comment(s) | Webcam service developed to allow strangers to chat online has become fast track to carnal gratification for some people.

Sir Clive Sinclair: 'I don't use a computer at all'

11 comment(s) | Thirty years ago Clive Sinclair launched a computer that he hoped would change the world. It only changed the way people played primitive games.

Plans for '.xxx' porn net domain revived

2 comment(s) | Nearly 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 offence

9 comment(s) | I 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.

Film technology to shine at Academy Awards

0 comment(s) | No matter which film wins the Oscar for visual effects at next month's Academy Awards ceremony, software savants at Autodesk will be taking a bow.

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