Facebook today said that it would sign a voluntary code of conduct in Germany to protect user data, reportedEgypt.com. This is the first time that Facebook has agreed to a code of conduct on privacy in a security-sensitive nation like Germany. Richard Allan, Facebook’s director of European public policy met with Germany’s Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and the site agreed to sign a voluntary self-regulation agreement that brought its policies more in like with German data protection laws....

According to a report by Vizisense, Facebook is continuing its dominance over both Orkut and YouTube in India, achieving 100% growth in the last year. The report also found that Gmail is still the most preferred email service in India. The report tracks the growth of twenty prominent online categories such as Airlines,Travel Commerce, Online Gaming, Jobs, Real Estate, Email and Mobile in India for the twelve months to April 2011....

As you have no doubt just heard, Facebook is releasingmassive new integration with Skypeto power video chat for its three-quarters of a billion users. Of course, this should come as no real surprise to anyone, after all we have heard rumors of this sort going back toSeptember of 2010, and in March we heard that talks wereunderway againbetween the two companies. But as you know, Microsoft will shortly own Skype, which makes this entire situation much more interesting....

This just in:FacebookandTwitterare now re-blocked in Egypt. Aftertwo days of reportingon Egypt’s blocked websites, Egyptian citizens are writing in from a blaze of tear gas, firefighters, fierce police forces, flying bullets amid detainees with swords and knives. With the social media-fueled recentuprisingin nearby Tunisia fresh in the region’s memory, it’s unsurprising that the government is attempting to keep a lid on things by throttling online methods of communication. BlackBerry’s BBM service has been noted to have been affected as well....

Facebook and Twitter tried to stop voter intimidation… and they failed miserably Voter intimidation On Oct. 20, registered Democrats in Florida, a crucial swing state, and Alaska began receiving emails purportedly from the far-right group Proud Boys. The messages werefilled with threatsup to and including violent reprisals if the receiver did not vote for President Trump and change their party affiliation to Republican. Less than 24 hours later, on Oct. 21, U....