Cutting edge stuff in Congressional Quarterly: "Members of the Washington press corps have started flocking to Facebook … Some journalists and opinion writers are also using Facebook as a secondary distribution system for their work."

"Social networking sites are the biggest threat to people’s privacy on the internet, say the billionaire founders of Google."

"Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter … and other social-media services - Flickr, YouTube, Facebook - for news catchwords such as ‘earthquake’ and ‘evacuation’."

Hmmm…. Let me think.

"[Facebook's] new application Lexicon culls words and phrases from users’ walls to create fun charts. In the ‘party tonight’ ‘hangover’ match-up, the latter curiously tends to spike shorty after the former."

"A local search engine just launched on Facebook. It is called Loladex and you can’t do searches on its Website, only on Facebook. That is because it taps into your friends’ recommendations to rank results."

"[A] next big thing—web-mail then, social networking now—can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from their favourite web portal. The non sequitur is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own rig

It seemed [Ashley Alexandra Dupre] was trying to stay one step ahead of journalists, attempting to limit what information they could access [on her MySpace page].

"Much of the background information on [22-year old Ashley Alexandra Dupre, otherwise known as Kristen.
], as well as photos, have come from social networking sites, such as MySpace."

"Visiting YorkVision.co.uk will bring you straight to Vision’s Facebook application. The entire web presence of the paper is embedded into the social-networking site."

"Elements of the popular social networking website Facebook could be blocked to UAE net users next year as part of the telecoms regulator’s rollout of its forthcoming new Internet Penetration Policy (IPP)."