You may have noticed colorful “Hello My Name Is” tags appearing in your newsfeed. At first glance it looks like just another silly Facebook app but it’s actually the latest attempt by scammers to trick Facebook users into helping them commit affiliate fraud. When a user clicks on the invitation to find out what their more »

Summify is the latest company to join the Twitter flock. The popular news aggregator has since shut off new signups, with it’s service closing down sometime in the near future. Summify, if you’re not familiar with the service, was a way to pull in your Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds. Summify would then sort them more »

A new Facebook application created by an Israeli-based company allows users to share their deepest thoughts/feelings with their friends and family postmortem. The application — appropriately dubbed “If I Die” — has already reached over 5,000 likes on its Facebook page. The way it works is that once three self-appointed friends have confirmed your death, the more »

It looks like Instagram has gotten a bit more friendly with Facebook lately. And this will come as good news for those who like uploading and sharing their Instagram photos with their Facebook friends. Moving forward, any Instagram images that you share on Facebook will be added to a new(ly created) gallery called Instagram Photos. more »

A study by Divorce-Online, a UK website that offers legal advice and resources to divorcing couples, Facebook was sited in one third of over 5,000 UK divorce filings in which “unreasonable behavior” was given as the reason for the marriage failure. “People contact ex-partners and the messages start as innocent, but lead to trouble,” divorce more »

A blogger is being sued by the blog he used to write for because they claim his Twitter followers belong to them. PhoneDog is suing former blogger Noah Kravitz for $350,000 (that’s $2.50 per follower per month for 8 months) because they say his 17,000 followers amounts to their customer list, and they want it more »

A bored comedy writer took it upon himself to shame some of the tweeters he came across on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Their crime? Complaining about what they got and didn’t get for Christmas, often in melodramatic style. For example: welp my christmas is pretty much ruined, im not getting my car till after more »

Facebook Timeline was first introduced by Mark Zuckerberg back in September at f8, and it’s just now being rolled out to users. The developer preview of Timeline has run since September 22, with over a million people signing up to use the new profile. Now regular Facebook users will begin to see the new layout more »

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 »