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The World Wide Web Consortium sees the web becoming a platform where data can be posted and reused in multiple ad-hoc applications, to judge from a workshop the organisation held at the WWW2010 conference, this week in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Facebook dropped a bombshell on the tech industry last week in the form of a Web-wide “Like” button and the launch of the “Open Graph.” Using this new platform, websites can drive Web traffic from Facebook by including Like buttons on their pages; every Like posts an update to that user’s Facebook page.

Google was crowned the world’s most valuable brand by a research firm that found technology firms dominate when it comes to how much a name is worth in today’s markets.

CARACAS, Venezuela a ” President Hugo Chavez has joined the ranks of those who say, ‘If you can’t beat ‘em, tweet ‘em.’Facing a flurry of cyberspace critics, the loquacious leader known for hours-long speeches made a revolutionary move Wednesday, sending his first message from a Twitter account where his missives are limited to 140 characters.’Hey …

Facebook’s plan to spread its online social network to other websites could be detoured by regulators looking into privacy concerns that have raised the ire of federal lawmakers.

Beyond the famous battles of the Civil War, there was chaos. The governor of Kansas was frantically pleading for ammunition to quell guerrilla warfare, citizens in Missouri were appealing to Army officials when a U.S. flag was ripped from a church rooftop, and citizens in Virginia were asking the governor for arms to fight Union sympathizers.

A man and his imaginary animal have shown what a quirky idea, a Facebook page and like-minded people can do.

Four US senators want Facebook to make it easier for its users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information.

Dakshana Bascaramurty Published on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 8:58AM EDT Last updated on Monday, Apr.

BEIRUT: About 3,000 people marched in Beirut on Sunday to demand a secular system in place of the Muslim-Christian sectarianism that permeates politics, employment and family status matters in Lebanon.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote address at the f8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, California.

Two young children were killed in a suspected arson attack on their Derbyshire home an hour after their mother called police for help.

Wayne Dale, 19, from the Isle of Man, became the first person to be prosecuted for making false allegations about the identity and location of the murderer.

This week, Facebook’s introduced the “open graph,” a giant expansion of the “social graph” concept on which Facebook is built.

Harry Potter lacked the magic to make Britain’s youth care about the country’s national election, but the sudden rise of an underdog party leader seen as shaking up politics as usual might do the trick.