How data in Facebook is increasingly being made public.

2Conventional VC networks and outlier identification produce poor returns. (This is due, in part, to financiers’ Pavlovian reaction to entrepreneurs with a diploma from a top-tier school.) As we move forward, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding will be used to augment or replace traditional methods and create the high-return VC of the future.2

A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a computer lab downtown on Mercer Street, decided to build a social network that wouldn’t force people to surrender their privacy to a big business.

"Politics, general news and sport are to retain a presence of one reporter each but the bulk face the chop within a period said to be 30 days."

"One of the biggest additions is the ability for businesses to accept direct messages on the service, even from people they don’t follow."

But Internet culture isn’t just for the Internet anymore. These days, the intersection between online and mainstream media is evermore blurry as celebrities jump onto Twitter (Twitter) and TV shows pull meme content into storylines.

According to one study, adults ages 35 and older hear more bad news about Facebook than good. Between bugs, changes and privacy fear, uncertainty and doubt in the media, these mature folks have heard significantly more negative reports than have their younger counterparts.

Google has said it is working with hardware makers and carriers to create lightweight computers that run its software. As rivals such as Apple Inc. introduce tablets like the iPad, the Internet giant is seeking to spur the adoption of its online software and advertising system through its own partnerships.