Hacker News
- Reddit has the killer social network feature: anonymity http://garthontech.blogspot.ca/2013/08/reddit-has-killer-social-network.html 145 comments
- Show HN: Qwurty, a new feature-packed social network https://qwurty.com 2 comments
- Twitter launches its voice-based ‘Spaces’ social networking feature into beta testing https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/17/twitter-launches-its-voice-based-spaces-social-networking-feature-into-beta-testing/ 4 comments business
- Valve spruces up the Steam store with better social features, networking, and reach https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/21/valve-spruces-up-the-steam-store-for-better-social-networking-and-global-reach/ 7 comments technology
- Exploiting Facebook data to influence voters? That’s a feature, not a bug, of the social network http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-cambridge-analytica-20180318-story.html 23 comments politics
- Facebook users in Bangkok were falsely alerted to an "explosion" in the Thai capital, after the social network activated its Safety Check feature. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38448140 3 comments worldnews
- Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx's Social Networking Features http://jordanhall.co.uk/ubuntu-linux/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynxs-social-networking-features-0801414/ 20 comments linux
- I created a full featured social network by myself. What do you think? People who know you create your profile. http://www.talkburst.com 62 comments programming
- What Should Be Our Next Feature? Help Grow A Music Social Network With 7k+ Users https://sametunes.com 7 comments growmybusiness
- I'm building a social network owned by people and would like to ask the community what privacy features would you like to see? https://utopiyn.com 25 comments privacy
- HandCash will be a game changing Bitcoin wallet not due to its NFC functionality, but because of the robust social networking features... starting with user handles. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/93vuz9/handcash_will_be_a_game_changing_bitcoin_wallet/ 68 comments btc
- Billion Dollar Brains --- Feature on new wave of 20-something Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Grew up with the web, blogging and social networking. Detest hierarchies, employ a trial-and-error leadership style and refuse to cede control to investors http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/3566e886-e32a-11e0-bb55-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1yux4kxcn 66 comments business
- Germany's highest court rules Facebook 'friend finder' is unlawful. "Germany’s highest court has declared unlawful a feature that encourages Facebook users to market the social media network to their contacts, confirming the rulings of two lower courts." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/14/germany-highest-court-facebook-friend-finder-unlawful 3 comments privacy
- German data protection authorities say Facebook’s new facial recognition feature is illegal and has demanded the social networking site end its use and delete all related information. http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110803-36703.html 21 comments technology
- Surprisingly simple model by physicists and neuroscientists explains how brain cells organize and connect based on general principles of networking and self-organization, rather than biological features of an organism, that could apply to non-biological networks like social interactions as well. https://biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/simple-model-brain-cells-connect 33 comments science
- Parents mention sons more often than daughters on social media. An analysis of 635,665 users on a Russian social networking site found that parents mention sons more often than daughters and that posts featuring sons received more "likes." https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/01/18/1804996116 21 comments science
- Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp. The social network's new privacy feature is technically flawed, opt-in, and limited in its functionality. All this for just $8 a month. https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-encrypted-dm-signal-whatsapp/ 213 comments privacy
- What's really, truly going on with Facebook? On Sunday, it was discovered that the 900 million-person social network was "testing" a feature that would let people see a digital list of the people who were nearby in real life. http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/26/tech/social-media/facebook-uproar/index.html 14 comments technology