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A public Facebook

A public Facebook

The site is expected to sell a 10% stake for as much as $10-billion but there are doubts about its value.

10 for 2012: A guide to getting your slice of life

10 for 2012: A guide to getting your slice of life

<b>Dion Chang</b> of Flux Trends looks to the future.

From Fukushima to Charlie Sheen — the Twitter hashtags that dominated 2011

From Fukushima to Charlie Sheen — the Twitter hashtags that dominated 2011

Twitter has revealed its top hashtags of 2011, showing what the world’s tweeters had on their mind.

Games of our lives

Games of our lives

Gaming is no longer a solitary occupation — now it is becoming a social event with the emphasis on competing

Politics goes counter to the web

Politics goes counter to the web

Social networking’s much-vaunted challenge to autocracies ‘has been undermined by the West’.

Confessions of a Twitter addict

Confessions of a Twitter addict

How Twitter took over our reporter’s virtual — and real — life and why she likes it that way.

Revenge of the nerds

Revenge of the nerds

From the first sentence, the first word, first nervily indrawn breath, The Social Network announces itself as the unmistakable work of Aaron Sorkin.

Facebook goes ‘Vleisboek’

South Africans who logged on to Facebook last week may have struggled if they did not understand Afrikaans.

Divide between computers and TV crumbles

The wall between televisions and computers is crumbling and internet pioneer Yahoo! is swinging a virtual hammer.