The Sociable

UPDATE: As of 10pm GMT the site is back up and functioning correctly. Facebook is in the process of fixing a major DNS failure which has brought down the social networking site globally.

News International, a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, is to place a third title, The News of the World, behind an online paywall next month.

In this week's other piece of Twitter related news the social networking giant has been outlining its soon-to-be-updated advertising structure....

http://www.youtube.com/v/oUVXn0F0N5k In what will stand to be a major test of the social good of new media technologies Irish journalist...

Today Facebook announced a number of new features that give its users more control over the updates they see in their News Feed.

A new version of the Gmail app in Android Market has been released with some welcome usability updates.

As the hack-prone Twitter website was again rendered unusable by a serious security flaw today Twitter users were quick to vent their anger and frustration...on Twitter itself.

Foursquare have released version 2.0 of their popular location-based app on the Apple App Store, with Android and Blackberry updates “coming soon”.