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Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client.

Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking Web site, was awarded $711 million in damages against a spammer who gained access to users' accounts and sent phony messages.

If you're trying to figure out who to follow on Twitter, you might soon be turning to fellow users for help, rather than the company itself....

Blogger Meghan McCain, daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain, caused a brief stir on Twitter on Wednesday night when she posted a voluptuous photo of herself online.

LinkedIn has hit 50 million users, according to a blog post today, growing from 45 million users two months ago. And according to the latest comScore data, LinkedIn is steadily growing in terms of unique visitors.

Facebook Connect launched to the public less than a year ago, and already it's seen an incredible amount of traction. Unfortunately, for those people with little to no coding experience, implementing Facebook Connect has seemed like more trouble that it was worth.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated.

Warner Music Group has completed a deal with YouTube that will bring back music videos for Green Day, U2, Madonna and other artists to the video-sharing site from which they were removed in December, according to two executives familiar with the talks.

Warner has also commenced talks with Vevo, the "Hulu for music" joint venture between YouTube and Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainments.

We have received multiple reports that a new, convincing, and dangerous worm and phishing scam is making the rounds on Twitter. Hacked accounts are sending DMs to users and stealing their login information. In fact, one of our own has received one of these direct messages.

Just as bearded hipsters migrate from bar to bar in pursuit of young ladies to ogle, so too have scammers and hackers followed their prey from MySpace to Facebook. As a result, the social network once deemed the "safe" option is now plagued by legions of 419 scammers, phishers, and peddlers of malware.