http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/174/all xx http://www.itworld.com/security/83719/developer-finds-major-coding-errors-facebook-myspace Social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos. http://www.itworld.com/security/83719/developer-finds-major-coding-errors-facebook-myspace#comments Internet Security Software News Facebook MySpace privacy issues Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:41:58 -0500 ITworld staff 83719 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/81483/scams-amp-shams-trouble-social-networks It's hard to understand who in their right mind would want to incur the wrath of "Triple H," the intimidating superstar of professional wrestling. But when a poser created a fraudulent MySpace account in Triple H's name, it wasn't the wrestler that the perpetrator had to contend with. http://www.itworld.com/security/81483/scams-amp-shams-trouble-social-networks#comments Internet Security Feature Facebook MySpace social networking Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:14:24 -0400 ITworld staff 81483 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/81009/social-networks-war-shows-facebook-dominant Facebook is leaping ahead of MySpace to turn into the most popular social networking site in the U.S. Yet although Facebook nailed down 58.6 percent of all U.S visits to social networking sites in September -- for an increase of 194 percent -- use of Twitter surged even more astoundingly, according to Experian Hitwise. http://www.itworld.com/internet/81009/social-networks-war-shows-facebook-dominant#comments Internet News Facebook MySpace social networking Twitter Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:41:58 -0400 ITworld staff 81009 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/storage/80747/myspace-replaces-all-server-hard-disks-flash-drives Solid state drive vendor Fusion-io announced that social networking site MySpace.com has replaced the hard disk drives in its servers with flash drives, allowing it to remove all of its racks of servers by replacing them with servers half the height. http://www.itworld.com/storage/80747/myspace-replaces-all-server-hard-disks-flash-drives#comments Storage News MySpace SSD Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:01:06 -0400 ITworld staff 80747 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/77811/myspace-open-source-house-data-analysis-technology MySpace on Tuesday will release as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/77811/myspace-open-source-house-data-analysis-technology#comments Internet Open Source Software News data mining MySpace Qizmt Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:44:57 -0400 ITworld staff 77811 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/69689/myspace-helps-developers-tune-site-performance-new-tool MySpace will release as open source a tool it uses internally to track and tune the performance of its Web site, a move that will allow developers to benefit from the tool's capabilities and help extend and enhance its functionality. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/69689/myspace-helps-developers-tune-site-performance-new-tool#comments Development Open Source News development tools MySpace Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:12:11 -0400 ITworld staff 69689 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/69648/myspace-faces-more-cutbacks The employment picture at MySpace isn't getting any brighter. Just one week after MySpace announced it would cut 30 percent of its work force, the social network said 300 people from its international offices would be let go. http://www.itworld.com/internet/69648/myspace-faces-more-cutbacks#comments Internet News MySpace Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:58:16 -0400 ITworld staff 69648 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/business/69369/myspace-staff-slashed-almost-30-percent MySpace is undergoing restructuring after losing its leadership position to Facebook. http://www.itworld.com/business/69369/myspace-staff-slashed-almost-30-percent#comments Business Internet News layoff MySpace restructuring Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:03:00 -0400 ITworld staff 69369 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/69228/myspace-facebook-involved-gruesome-murder-case A woman in Staten Island appears to have been killed over rumors spreading on MySpace that she was having an affair. http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/69228/myspace-facebook-involved-gruesome-murder-case#comments Offbeat Opinion Facebook MySpace Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:00:00 -0400 ITworld staff 69228 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/business/68944/sun-shareholders-will-vote-oracle-deal-july-16 Sun Microsystems has scheduled a special shareholders meeting for July 16 for a vote on whether to accept Oracle's $7.4 billion proposal to buy the company. Sun's board has unanimously recommended the transaction go through. http://www.itworld.com/business/68944/sun-shareholders-will-vote-oracle-deal-july-16#comments Business Open Source Software News java MySpace Oracle Sun Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:28:52 -0400 ITworld staff 68944 at http://www.itworld.com