We mentioned the tragic news about Diaspora co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy yesterday afternoon and it looks like we now have an official statement, which you can read in its entirety below… We’re incredibly sad to say that our close friend and co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy has passed away.   Ilya was a great friend and a brilliant more »

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of the co-founders of Diaspora, a social networking site that had gained a good amount of attention, has passed away at the tender age of 22. Starting off as a project between 4 NYU students, Diaspora gained a considerable amount of media attention landing the boys’ social media pet on Fox News more »

Facebook users have been known to greet the site’s latest features with a good amount of push-back and controversy. The social networking site’s founder Mark Zuckerberg told the e-G8 Forum that while users are skeptical of new changes at first, they tend to change their minds over time. “We’ll roll it out, and pretty often more »

Bing has officially teamed up with Facebook in a move which will give the social networking site deeply rooted integration into the search engine’s results and algorithms. Here’s what Microsoft had to say about the recent team up: “The best decisions are not just fueled by facts, they require the opinions and emotions of your more »

Twitter currently has over 175 million registered users according to the site’s “about” page. Of those 175 million registered “users”, there are only 85 million accounts with one or more followers. These statistics seriously make me wonder about the number of accounts that are used for spamming/trolling versus the ones that belong to people who more »

It looks like everyone’s favorite social networking boy-extraordinaire has once again found himself behind another lawsuit. Larry Klayman, a well known Republican political activist, has sued Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook for $1 billion after the social networking site did not remove an anti-semitic page quickly enough. And like any other mentally stable politician, Klayman attributed more »

Be careful what you search for. These days, court rooms are allowed to look at your search history on the web as evidence for a conviction. Take Jared Lee Loughner for example. This righteous young lad has been charged for shooting and killing 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tucson, Arizona last month. Loughner’s more »

Pocketnow has confirmed that the that HTC has two Facebook that are set to be announced tomorrow. Can you imagine a phone that is more heavily Facebook integrated than the recent Windows Phones? The new HTC devices, which will be Android based, will feature a dedicated Facebook button which will more than likely lead users more »

New research conducted by a Stanford University student says that by comparing ourselves to our friends on Facebook, we are lead to believe that they lead more fulfilling lives. Just think about the last time a friend or relative of yours posted a picture of them in Cancun for the summer. Didn’t it feel wonderful more »

It’s 9:00 PM on Wednesday night; do you know who’s hacking your Facebook profile? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page was hacked earlier this week by an anonymous evil doer who left a message claiming that Facebook should look to become a “social business.” The comment, which was seemingly posted by Zuckerberg, was promptly removed more »