Facebook blocked by businesses, Plaxo launching new Pulse service
Social networking site Facebook, now with some 30 million users, is facing a series of challenges. Founder Mark Zuckerberg, just 23 years old, has been accused of stealing the idea for the site, its security has been questioned, a "technical glitch" resulted in an outage and Vodafone has withdrawn advertising from the site.
Facebook has now also been banned by a number of UK businesses (including notable enterprises such as Lloyds TSB and British Gas). According to a new story published on our site, Small Business Centre, Social networking a problem for IT managers:
Web security firm Email Systems has found that... some 83 per cent of its customers using web filtering software [IT managers] have blocked access to all social-networking sites on company systems.
Facebook aside, online address book Plaxo will be launching a new social network for businesses on Monday. Named Pulse, the service will pull information from other social networking sites and aggregate them into a feed. In other words, rather than having to sign into other networks to get fresh information from contacts, you will be able to see updates all on one page. Very handy.
