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Wouldn’t it be great to be able to transfer your data from your profile on one social network to your profile on another social network? The Data Portability Workgroup is aiming to do that very thing. WebProNews Reporter Abby Prince talked with Chris Saad, DataPorability.org’s Co-Founder and Chairman, about the initiative. The Data Portability Workgroup contains [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Chris Saad, Data Portability Workgroup, dataportability.org, Facebook, John McCrea, Joseph Smarr, News Update, Plaxo, Portable Social Networks, Robert Scoble, Social Networking

Facebook recently launched a new advertising network called Facebook Beacon. MoveOn.org and many users see it as a violation of privacy. “I saw my gf bought an item i had been saying i wanted… so now part of my Christmas gift has been ruined.” Matthew Helfgott posted this comment on the MoveOn.org Facebook group called, [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Adam+Green, Facebook, Facebook+Beacon, Matthew+Helfgott, MoveOn.org, News Update, privacy

Social networking site Facebook is looking towards investors to buy shares of the booming site. Microsoft is in talks with Facebook to buy up to 5% of the company for $300 to $500 million dollars. All of this occurring while the NY State Attorney General releases information of an investigation into the security [...] Tags: Facebook, Kara Ratliff, Microsoft, News Update, NY State Attorney General

Yahoo has a new social networking site called Mash. Previously, Yahoo tried to break into the social media mania with Yahoo 360, but the effort was unsuccessful. Mash is supposed to be equivalent to the ever popular MySpace and Facebook social networks. Catch the full story right here on WebProNews. If you enjoyed this post, make [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Facebook, MySpace, News Update, Social Media, yahoo, Yahoo Mash

Since the success of social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace, other sites are trying to gain popularity in the social network world. Only now a few sites are focusing on a different age group, the baby boomers. WebProNews talked with Multiply.com Board Member, David Carlick and Chief Product Officer for TeeBeeDee.com, David [...] Tags: David Carlick, David Markus, Facebook, Kara Ratliff, Multiply, MySpace, News Update, Social Networks, TeeBeeDee

Previously, WebProNews told you that Facebook will soon be allowing search engines to index public member profiles. As a result of this controversial move, WebProNews caught up with a few Facebook users and got their thoughts on the recent changes. Hear all the opinions, right here on WebProNews. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Facebook, Feedback, News Update, Privacy Protection, Search Engines

A new social networking site is using the idea that Facebook started out with, yet adding new and unusual features. College.com offers features such as professor profile pages with comments from students. The site creators say it is only for college students, alumni, and employees. So we talked to a few college [...] Tags: College.com, Facebook, Kara Ratliff, News Update

Facebook has announced another change that may bring some controversy. Starting today, Facebook is notifying its members that they have a choice of keeping their listings private or giving Facebook the the power to make their name and profile picture available to outsiders. After the notification period is over, search engines will have the ability [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Facebook, News Update, Privacy Protection, Search Engines

Although Facebook has gone to greater lengths than other social networking sites to maintain its safe image, it is being hit with accusations of not doing enough to keep sexual predators off its site. MySpace has experienced similar situations, and has even had civil suits brought against it. WebProNews spoke with Connecticut’s Attorney General Richard [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Facebook, MySpace, News Update, Richard Blumenthal, Sexual Predators

Yahoo is launching a new strategy that uses multiple websites and services in order to gain a stronger position in social networking. Although Yahoo has a strong collection of social web properties, their social-networking system Yahoo 360 hasn’t reached the position the company had expected. Their social web properties are the Flickr photo-sharing site, the [...] Tags: del.icio.us, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Jeff Weiner, John Battelle, MySpace, News Update, Web 2.0, yahoo, Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Groups