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Google on Friday released Web traffic data indicating that Facebook is king when it comes to online visitors despite criticism about privacy at the social-networking service.

Google on Friday released Web traffic data indicating that Facebook is king when it comes to online visitors despite criticism about privacy at the social-networking service.

(c) 2010 AFP

The logo of social networking website ‘Facebook’ is displayed on a computer screen. The founder of the website, Mark Zuckerberg, has said the service has made blunders that it hopes to fix with coming changes to its privacy controls.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday said the social networking service has made blunders that it hopes [...]

The Internet homepage of the community website Facebook. Facebook on Saturday said it plans to simplify privacy controls at the popular social-networking service to appease critics.

Facebook on Saturday said it plans to simplify privacy controls at the popular social-networking service to appease critics.

(c) 2010 AFP

Perhaps the most damning critique of Facebook’s recent controversial moves has been that a group of programmers have been raising money to create an alternative–and people are donating.
Diaspora, a social-networking project hatched by four New York University programming students in their early 20s, is set to hit $100,000 on Thursday in its quest to raise [...]

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote address at the f8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, California. Zuckerberg kicked off the the one day conference for developers that features breakout sessions on the future of social technologies.

Facebook on Wednesday set out to spread its influence across the Internet by weaving its social [...]

Ten government regulators responsible for protecting the private information of their countries’ citizens have sent an open letter to Google calling on the company to respect national laws on privacy.
The regulators say the letter is also intended for other companies offering services over the Internet, but the version published is addressed to Google CEO Eric [...]

Google hopes a new button for Web publishers will increase Buzz usage.
Social-networking buttons for sharing content are nearly ubiquitous on the sites of Web publishers (including this one) but Google had yet to release an official button for Buzz, its social-networking service unveiled earlier this year. A few publishers had taken it upon themselves [...]

Yahoo continues to inject social networking into its services.
Starting later on Monday, Yahoo Mail users will be able to update their Facebook status from their Yahoo Mail in-box. Facebook users will be able to log into their accounts right from the Yahoo Mail home page and will also be able to click through to [...]

Two changes in one week at Google Buzz weren’t enough to satisfy the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

The privacy group filed a complaint on Tuesday with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, seeking constraints on Google’s new social-networking service.

“This complaint concerns an attempt by Google, Inc., the provider of a widely used email service, to convert the [...]

Despite the changes that Google has made to Buzz following negative reaction to the service, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission charging the search giant with violating user privacy.
EPIC on Tuesday asked the FTC to investigate Google and force it to change or stop offering several [...]