Usually, when we see Facebook and arrest in a story, the story is filed under The World’s Dumbest Criminals. Like the guy that made fun of his DUI charges by posting pictures of himself in a jailbird costume. Or the burglar who logged into his Facebook account at the victim’s home. Or the woman who [...]

Man, hardly a week goes by without the European Union getting after some Internet behemoth for bad business practices or invading individuals’ privacy, or both. Usually it’s Google on the receiving end, but this time it’s social networks that are getting scrutiny from the supranational regulator. As Facebook begins testing greater and greater publicity, with [...]

Nielsen retooled its online audience measurement system to try to more accurately measure and reflect web usage at large by including RSS measures. However, something went terribly wrong, and Nielsen overreported the audience reach for several sites that seriously don’t want to see any further “correction”: