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The original “six degrees” researchers used a sample of only 296 people. But that was before social media came on the scene. The new research used a slightly bigger cohort: 721 million Facebook users, more than one-tenth of the world’s population. The findings were posted on Facebook’s Web site Monday night. The experiment took one month. The researchers used a …

For when Google-stalking isn’t enough, how about a site where jilted lovers can dish about their formers? What could possibly go wrong? The PR material calls it “TripAdvisor for dating.” Yeah.

The National Association of Religious Broadcasters give an A+ to Twitter for being the only major social media platform which refuses to delete or censor accounts that most us here would describe as hate speech. Twitter says: Everyone has different levels of sensitivity towards content. What may be shocking to one may be fine or acceptable to another. Twitter does …

Anti-gay groups have a new martyr in a Florida public school teacher who is being investigated for posting anti-gay comments on his Facebook page. Lake County Schools Communications Officer Chris Patton said school officials received a complaint Tuesday about the content on Mount Dora High School teacher Jerry Buell’s personal Facebook page, as well as copies of the posts. Buell’s …

The Oxford English Dictionary reports adding 400 new entries for 2011. Since the publication of its first edition in 1911, the revolutionary Concise Oxford Dictionary has remained in print and gained fame around the world over the course of eleven editions. This month heralds the publication of the centenary edition: the new 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary …

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There are people trying to conversatiate with you!

Friendster goes dark on May 31st. In other news, people still have Friendster accounts.

Twitter has suspended their affiliation with UberMedia, a company that owns a broad variety of Twitter applications used to amplify the traditional user experience. UberMedia owns TweetDeck, UberTwitter, EchoFon, and Twidroyd, among other Twitter-based applications. Twitter says: We ask all developers in Twitter ecosystem to abide by a simple set of rules that are in the interests of our users, …

Facebook users in America, Canada, Australia, Britain and several other countries now have two more options when announcing their relationship status: civil unions and domestic partnerships. The changes were made in consultation with Facebook’s Network of Support, a group that includes LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] organizations such as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the Gay, Lesbian, and …

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Google has created a work-around for Egyptians cut off from the internet. Via the company’s official blog: Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet …

Twitter has issued a statement which partially references events in Egypt. Our goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. For this to happen, freedom of expression is essential. Some Tweets may facilitate positive change in a repressed country, some make us laugh, some make us think, some downright anger a vast majority of …

As we saw last year in Iran, the roles of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube cannot be underestimated in these things.

News Corp is reportedly putting MySpace up for sale after cutting staff by 50% this week. If there are no immediately takers, the site is expected to shut down by June. This will come as a shock to millions who thought MySpace was already gone. The site lost $100M in the fiscal year that ended last June.

A federal labor agency has ruled that social media postings are protected speech that employers cannot use against staffers. In what labor officials and lawyers view as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page. This is …