http://bellsouth.com.com/8300-13577_3-36.html The Social en-us CNET News' Caroline McCarthy is a downtown Manhattanite who believes that, despite popular opinion, the Web can actually help your social life. She's happily addicted to fun social-media tools from Twitter to Yelp to Facebook. Copyright 1995-2008 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:40:00 GMT Current Media: Nope, we're not closing an office http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10134350-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

Hmmm...


A rumor floated on the Twitter account known as The Media Is Dying--which, for obvious reasons, has been fairly active as of late--indicated on Wednesday morning that Current Media, the cable and Web media company co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, is closing its San Francisco office. ...


]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10134350-36.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:40:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy Zuckerberg: New year, 150 million Facebook users http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10134266-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

It was only a matter of time. Social network Facebook says it has hit the milestone of 150 million active users, just more than two months after reaching 120 million and about four months after reaching 100 million. The site hit 140 million in the middle of December.

The announcement ...

]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10134266-36.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:42:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy Model sues Google over mean, nasty blog remarks http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10133085-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

Wouldn't the Burn Book have been even worse if it had been a blog?

(Credit: Paramount Pictures)

You just can't make this stuff up.

Liskula Cohen, a Canadian model, has sued Google because of offensive remarks made about her on a blog hosted by its Blogger publishing ...

]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10133085-36.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:21:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10132749-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial (Credit: Topherchris.com)

Some nasty pranksters, likely associated with Web forum 4Chan, have hacked into Apple gossip mainstay MacRumors' live-blog coverage of Tuesday's Macworld keynote. Hosted on a separate domain, MacRumorsLive.com, the site was plagued by offensive messages about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health and general inanity (i....

]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10132749-36.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:13:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy LiveJournal deletes 'about a dozen' jobs http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

Social-media pioneer LiveJournal is the latest company to announce a round of layoffs, trimming down its employee head count in its San Francisco and Moscow offices.

A statement from the company came after a rumor on gossip blog Gawker suggested that a shocking number of LiveJournal employees--20 out of 28--had ...

]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:54:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy Update: Twitter blames celebrity hack on 'individual' http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10131700-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn't the phishing scam that's been going around--it was a lone hacker, the microblogging service said later on Monday.

"The issue with ...

]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10131700-36.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:25:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy Oops! Twitter hack snares CNN anchor http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10131251-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial (Credit: Twitter, screengrab by Ian Schafer (ianschafer.com))

Clarification: Twitter has clarified that this incident was the work of a hacker and separate from the phishing scheme.

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez is one of the most popular users on microblogging service Twitter, with nearly ...


]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10131251-36.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:56:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy Facebook silences Project Playlist widgets http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10128687-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

Social network Facebook has disabled widgets from music-sharing site Project Playlist at the behest of the music industry, several days after rival site MySpace did the same. The reason? The user-uploaded music on Project Playlist that doesn't have industry sanction.

"The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) initially contacted ...

]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10128687-36.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:18:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy Good news for Project Playlist: Sony BMG strikes deal http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10127874-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial Project Playlist has struck a deal with Sony BMG to bring the label's catalog to its streaming-music service. It's the first major-label deal for Project Playlist, which recently brought former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta on as CEO but has been dealing with legal problems that have seen ...

]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10127874-36.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:43:24 GMT Caroline McCarthy The mixtape wars keep on: MySpace bans Project Playlist http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10127653-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial

MySpace has officially blocked access to embedded widgets from Project Playlist, one of the myriad start-ups that lets members create music playlists and share them with friends.

This could come across negatively because MySpace runs MySpace Music, a service that competes with Project Playlist. And that's probably why the ...

]]> http://bellsouth.com.com/8301-13577_3-10127653-36.html Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:55:00 GMT Caroline McCarthy