University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow, Seattle-based news aggregator NewsCloud and student newspaper The Minnesota Daily today announced the launch of the Minnesota Daily Facebook application.

A new strain of Koobface worm, a type of web application virus, is resurfacing in Facebook and Myspace. Security experts warn the users of the popular online social networks to be watchful and use caution when on the networks. The "Koobface" Facebook worm tricks users and hijacks accounts.

Nearly everyone is facebooking these days, from your weird old uncle Fred to your highschool sweetheart. Indeed everyone you ever knew finds you in the world of social networking. Some of us have reservations about putting our whole lives online, but most of us have given in and done it. But what about those children born today who will grow up on Facebook? Permanently plugged in to the social network?

Paul Zolezzi, 30, committed suicide by hanging himself in a park behind the Brooklyn Museum Friday morning. He left a suicide note in an unusual place: his Facebook profile.

As I was watching Inauguration day 2009 streaming on CNN, which is done in cooperation with Facebook I was impressed to see how Facebook members were participating and updating their statuses. CNN is showing the live stream of the inauguration and Facebook.com members are posting their comments participating in a live discussion. Then I thought I would see what bloggers have to say about CNN live stream inauguration and Facebook cooperation. The following startled me.

Facebook resisted a few days longer than MySpace but finally has given in to the RIAA’s demands that the Project Playlist app be removed for copyright violation.

Facebook rolls out super store social networking access with Facebook connect. Facebook Connect lets you sign on using one log in so you can easily share content across social networks.

Facebook has locked in a $873 million judgment against a spammer. It’s the largest award ever under the 2003 Can-Spam Act.

New technology helps University of Leicester freshers settle in to university life

A new University of Georgia study suggests that online social networking sites such as Facebook might be useful tools for detecting whether someone is a narcissist.