Does anyone know anything else about this. Apparently, Facebook shut down Power.com's access to Facebook. All they wanted to do was allow their users to get all their social networking in one place. You would be able to go to Power.com and see all your updates from sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and a few others, including Facebook.

"But in January, Facebook sued Power.com and blocked its access." ~Nicholas Carlson, Silicon Alley Insider

What I find particularly odd about this is that Power.com is not the first company to have the idea of allowing people to get their social networking from one place. I don't know for sure whether they're the first to include Facebook, I doubt it though.

Why would Facebook shut them down? This is another oddity. Facebook has been making huge strides to increase their page views lately. Maybe they're trying to hang onto every little page view they can get.

Personally, I think it's a little silly of Facebook to shut down a company who's promoting their website for them for free. It may be drawing some traffic away, but ultimately, if the people getting their updates want to post back, they'll have to do it from Facebook, won't they?

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Imagine this... You go on a job interview and are asked for your Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter user names and passwords. What would you do? What would you think about this company? Can something like this really happen?

This is what actually happened in Bozeman, Montana, US. The city was asking potential employees for this personal information. They've since stopped, but what does this say about the state of hiring in the US?

"inadvertently comes across information about the applicant's age, race, family planning, religion or any other protected status, and that information improperly influences the hiring decision, they could then be liable for discrimination on state and/or federal levels." ~Lora Bentley, ITBusinessEdge

I never thought about it this way. I was more concerned about the extreme level of personal privacy that's being invaded when a potential employer encroaches in on a potential employees Facebook space and starts nosing around. Shouldn't you be allowed to speak your opinions in a personal space like Facebook without wondering what some person you never met, but has your life in his hands, is thinking about you?

Lora's right though. US law protects people from discrimination against age, race, religion and other personal beliefs. There are so many things that someone can find out from your Facebook even before the interview. They're bound to guess your age at the interview, so that's not really protected that much, but the rest can be hidden, except for your online habits.

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The new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince trailers are here and you can watch them on MySpace. Along with the trailers, MySpace also has a lot of other Harry Potter stuff for you. Yes, I said trailers, there's more than one.

Also find photos and wallpapers from the movie Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. There are some clips from the movie as well for you to watch.

If you're a fan of Harry Potter then you've got to see this. MySpace has made an effort to make Harry Potter fans very happy.

If you leave a comment on a site, make sure you leave your email address. Yes, you're real email address. Most sites either have you sign up before you leave a comment or just have a space for you to add your email address. This is not to spam you, really.

There really is a purpose to using your real email address when you leave a comment on a blog or on a news site. Its so you can continue being part of the conversation. Whenever someone else leaves a comment on the same article or post, you'll be notified. So if someone disagreed with you, you can go back and tell them what you think. Sites like Facebook let you track your comments automatically. Every time you get a comment, you get an email letting you know.

If you decide that you no longer want to be part of that conversation, you can always opt out of it by using the unsubscribe link at the end of every email you receive.

Mahendra Palsule at MakeUseOf.com suggests using a comment tracking system. I'm not really sure that's necessary for many blogs, but may be for some. You may want to give it a try. Try out the comment tracking system by leaving comments here and tracking them. Then come back and let me know how it works.

A Facebook fan box is a box you can add to your website to help keep your friends, fans or customers informed about what's going on at your Facebook fan site. Integrate the Facebook fan box on your personal, business or fan website.

I think this was a great idea on the part of Facebook. Allowing their users to combine their websites with their fan pages will generate more business for Facebook. On the user end, it will help the person with the Facebook fan site to get more of their regular website readers into their fan site, and visa versa.

For the readers of the websites and the fan sites, they will be able to see what their favorite bands, celebrities, companies, or whatever, are doing whether they're on their website or posting on Facebook. They'll no longer have to go to both places to get their fix, but only have to have one bookmark and read one site...(Get a Facebook Fan Box)

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Apparently teens and college students are straying away from the very popular Facebook. What I want to know is, "Where are they going?"

Are you a teen or college are student? Tell us where you do your social networking?

"college and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% respectively in a mere six months" ~Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb

As I'm looking at the numbers on the graph, I'm seeing that there are still a large percentage of college age people, but that number is going to decline if the growth stays slow in that age group and the growth in the over 55 group stays high. Looking at the "Current Enrollment" section, I'm confused with how there can be so many negative users. Are people actually cancelling their Facebook accounts?

So where are all the kids going? Any ideas?