Another day, another scandal involving social media websites. Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook — along with MySpace, LiveJournal, Hi5, Xanga, Digg and Twitter — have been sending personal information about their users to advertisers without consent. Depending on how much information users opted to make public on their profile, advertising firms such as Google’s DoubleClick and Yahoo’s Right Media were able to obtain information as innocuous as the user’s I...

If you’re so social (or lonely, for that matter) that you are registered on several social networking sites, Verizon has the app for you: SocialLife. The name is almost an oxymoron, really. Anyway, we digress… SocialLife is like the Trillian or Adium of social networking apps where several of your favorite, or less popular sites are consolidated onto one app. It makes it a lot easier for you to check messages, notes,  photos, comments, and all that jazz when you can do it on one program instead o...