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Remember how The Pirate Bay launched a new feature giving its users a simple way to share torrent links on Facebook? Well, the social network has blocked the feature… kind of.”Given the controversy surrounding...

How does stuff spread virally on Facebook?

Check this new feature on Facebook: it lets people sign up to become fans of brands on the social network via text message, by texting the name of a fan page to Facebook's 32665 shortcode.Currently, it only works in...

Music startup Project Playlist is now being sued by just two major labels - WMG and UMG - after EMI pulled out of the lawsuit and signed a licensing deal with the playlisting site.

The barrage of criticism of Facebook's recent redesign appears to have hit home - the social network's director of product, Christopher Cox, has responded on the company's official blog.

As you'll know if you use Facebook, the site has just launched another redesign, which is proving somewhat controversial.

On Saturday, Facebook revealed that its Facebook Connect technology has gone live with several iPhone applications.

Plenty of people have tried to launch online music talent contests, but few have really caught on. The latest is WorldSings, which claims to be "Facebook or MySpace meets American Idol", complete with a whopping million-dollar...

The early tortoise always gets beaten by the hares who start later. Something like that - think social networking and how Friendster was overtaken by MySpace and then Facebook.

There's plenty of excited coverage of the launch of social music firm DropPlay, which combines some of the best features of a host of other sites.Users can search for any song and play it as a YouTube video, while creating...

Who knew anyone still cared about Faith No More? It seems they do, for the announcement this week that they're playing this summer's Download Festival generated 100,000 visits to its website and more than 900,000 page impressions.

Watch out for Irish users of Twitter, Facebook and other social media services replacing their profile pics with black boxes in the coming days.