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March 2008
- Sports Stars Endorse Little League Facebook
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 26, 08 8:49 AM CDT
  
  Want to see Peyton Manning’s Pop Warner games? Derek Jeter playing Little League? They’ll be on WePlay.com, alongside some game film from a lot of other not-yet-famous players. WePlay, which is launching today, is a youth sports social-networking site—a kind of little league Facebook. Athletes, coaches, and parents will all be able to network, coordinate schedules, and share game videos. More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • sports • athlete • Peyton Manning • Derek Jeter • Little League
- War Game Takes Colleges by Storm
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 21, 08 12:15 PM CDT
  
  Somewhere, Harvard is plotting an assault on Yale, while Cornell forges an alliance with Princeton. Such mass maneuvers are routine in GoCrossCampus, a Risk-like online war game in which teams of hundreds of players move armies across virtual versions of real campus locations. But it’s the real-world interaction, as students hash out strategy, that could make it the next Internet phenomenon to come from college entrepreneurs, the New York Times says. More »
  
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  Internet • social networking • online gaming • Yale • free online games
- Starbucks Rolls Out Customer-Focused Changes
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 19, 08 2:46 PM CDT
  
  A customer-loyalty card, a new website and upgraded brewing machines highlighted changes in store at Starbucks, the Wall Street Journal reports, with CEO Howard Schultz using today's annual meeting to re-focus the firm on quality of customer experience. The card will offer rewards for regulars at the coffee giant, which aims for a social-networking flavor with its new internet presence. More »
  
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  iPhone • social networking • Starbucks • coffee • McDonald's • Dunkin' Donuts • gourmet coffee • Howard Schultz • training • espresso • Clover
- Web Demands Could Cause Gridlock by 2011
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 13, 08 1:54 PM CDT
  
  The Internet's growing data richness could lead to major web traffic jams within a few years. Some research predicts that user demands—with the high-bandwidth needs of video clips, social networks, and online games—could top network capacity in short order. YouTube alone used more bandwidth in 2007 than the whole web did in 2000. More »
  
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  Internet • social networking • web traffic • bandwidth • video conferencing
- AOL Goes Social, Buys Bebo
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 13, 08 1:46 PM CDT
  
  AOL will buy Bebo.com for $850 million in an attempt to enter the social networking market, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bebo has 22 million unique visitors a month, well behind MySpace's 109 million, but the site’s strong European presence will give AOL access to key youth demographics outside the US. The move comes amidst reports of internal turmoil and a possible sale of the Time Warner subsidiary. More »
  
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  social networking • online advertising • Internet advertising • AOL • Time Warner • Internet service providers • Bebo
- Audience Disses Zuckerberg SXSWi Interview
  
  newser | CNET | Mar 10, 08 1:47 PM CDT
  
  Facebook is changing the world. At least, that was a dominant theme during Mark Zuckerberg’s Sunday keynote at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, during which interviewer Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek drew heckles from an increasingly impatient audience. Zuckerberg talked about Colombian activists and Lebanese youth using Facebook to organize and broaden their minds. More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • Colombia • Lebanon • Mark Zuckerberg • BusinessWeek
- OMG! Parents Friend Kids on Facebook
  
  newser | Washington Post | Mar 9, 08 6:00 AM CDT
  
  What to do when their father starts talking about “getting poked" is a question many high school and college kids are asking themselves these days. It's a modern-day dilemma: Do teens allow their folks into their friends network on Facebook and grant them access to blogs, photos, and messages? Parents are increasingly seeking oversight and entrée into their children’s digital world, the Washington Post reports—and many kids aren’t all right with that. More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • MySpace • online privacy • high school • parents • college student • Internet freedom
- Web 2.0 Firms Taking Slower Route to IPOs
  
  newser | BusinessWeek | Mar 6, 08 1:19 PM CST
  
  Growing Web 2.0 companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slide are biding their time before going public, making sure to run up their value as much as possible to fetch top dollar with an IPO, reports Business Week . It’s a far different approach than companies took before the dot-com bubble burst, when the fast track to an IPO was the goal. More »
  
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  Google • Facebook • YouTube • social networking • MySpace • News Corp • IPO • venture capital • PayPal • LinkedIn • NetSuite • VMWare • Slide
- Sellers, Fans at Odds Over Scrabulous
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 2, 08 4:10 PM CST
  
  Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous is a hit online, but sellers of the original board game have cried piracy and may take their claim to court, the New York Times reports. Tens of thousands of Scrabulous players have threatened to boycott Hasbro and Mattel if they shut down the Facebook-friendly game, which was invented by two brothers in Calcutta—and has given Scrabble an unexpected popularity surge. More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • boycott • Mattel • Hasbro • Scrabulous • Scrabble • board games
February 2008
- Previewing What's Next in Social Networks
  
  newser | CNN | Feb 29, 08 3:57 PM CST
  
  What’s next for online social networking? A heavy dose of geography, writes David Kirkpatrick in Fortune ’s Fast Forward . At a real-life meeting for 100 new-media notables in New York, one hot topic was adding location information to user-driven sites so that “not only will you know what someone is doing online, you’ll know where they are doing it.” More »
  
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  Internet • New York City • Facebook • social networking • Web 2.0 • Google Earth • Google Maps • Flickr • new media • twitter • Twittervision
- Nader Still Buffering ... Buffering ...
  
  newser | Politico | Feb 28, 08 2:19 PM CST
  
  Ralph Nader might seem like just the crusader to milk the Internet for all its movement-building potential, but, Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry write in Politico, his “self-defeating attitude” toward the web is likely to keep him on the sidelines. The third-party presidential hopeful claims his “Internet-literate associates” are working on a great campaign site, but indications are to the contrary. More »
  
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  Internet • Facebook • social networking • Ralph Nader • online activism • independent • presidential bid
- 17th Youth Dies in Welsh 'Suicide Borough'
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Feb 20, 08 10:15 AM CST
  
  A 16-year-old schoolgirl found hanged in the woods yesterday became the 17th youth suicide in the area of Bridgend, Wales, since early 2007. The rash of suicides has focused intense scrutiny on the town of 39,000 and its surrounding borough, where baffled police have so far failed to unearth any common motive linking the victims, the Guardian reports. Victims have ranged in age from 15 to 26. More »
  
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  social networking • suicide • teenagers • Wales • teen suicide • Bridgend suicides
- Facebook Fixes Problems With Its 'Delete' Button
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 18, 08 11:05 AM CST
  
  Making a profile on Facebook is easy, but before this weekend, deleting one wasn't: Not even Facebook could do it, the New York Times reports. Frustrated users filled out a form intended to delete their profiles but found bits of info still accessible on the site. Facebook says it has solved the problem, and profiles can be completely erased. More »
  
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  Internet • Facebook • social networking • online privacy • Beacon
- Web Connects Mourning NIU Students
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Feb 15, 08 1:21 PM CST
  
  With cellphone lines on much of the campus jammed, Northern Illinois University students turned to the Internet to let friends and loved ones know they had survived yesterday’s shooting and to console each other, the Chicago Tribune reports. Most logged on to Facebook, where 10,000 joined a prayer group, while others updated status messages to proclaim themselves unharmed. More »
  
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  cell phones • Facebook • social networking • Verizon • school shooting • Northern Illinois University
- Secret Yang Plan to Save Yahoo
  
  newser | Valleywag | Feb 12, 08 6:46 AM CST
  
  Yahoo chief exec Jerry Yang has secret plans that he hopes will dramatically boost the internet giant's share price, insiders tell Valleywag. Yahoo has turned down Microsoft's $31 per share offer, and while rumor has it that the company's board is holding out for $36, Yang is said to be against selling at any price until his plans to make Yahoo more "relevant" bear fruit. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Yahoo • social networking • mergers and acquisitions • Jerry Yang
- This Way Out? Not Really
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 11, 08 11:35 AM CST
  
  Just when you think you're out, Facebook pulls you back in, say wannabe ex-users who have tried in vain to delete their profiles. The site keeps archives of all profiles, unless they're manually deleted piece by piece, fanning privacy concerns already stoked by the Beacon fiasco. “It’s like the Hotel California,” one unwilling member told the New York Times . “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • online privacy • Beacon
- Advertisers Lukewarm on Social Sites
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Feb 5, 08 3:15 PM CST
  
  Facebook and YouTube are runaway success stories when it comes to attracting Internet users, but they lag in attracting ad dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. Advertising on social networking and video-sharing sites is relatively new, and therefore most vulnerable if economic worries lead to advertising cutbacks. Firms also worry about their ads appearing next to unsuitable content. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • Facebook • YouTube • social networking • online advertising • Internet advertising
- MySpace Opens Doors to Developers
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 5, 08 9:58 AM CST
  
  MySpace members already customize personal profile pages, but they’ll soon be able to add applications like photo albums, email, and calendars. The News Corp. property plans to open its platform and release developer tools, reports the New York Times. Third-party developers will be allowed to create and make money from programs that can sit on personal home pages. More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • MySpace
January 2008
- Sex Convicts May Face Internet Ban
  
  newser | CNET | Jan 29, 08 6:45 PM CST
  
  New York's 25,000 convicted sex criminals will be banned from Facebook and MySpace if a bill unveiled today becomes law, CNET reports. Dubbed E-Stop, the legislation requires sex convicts to submit online identities and screen names so participating sites can block them. Those who committed a sex crime over the Internet would have usage controlled by the state's parole board. More »
  
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  Internet • Facebook • New York • social networking • MySpace • sex crime • sexual predators
- UK Social Network Badoo Gets $30M to Enter Russia
  
  newser | Techcrunch | Jan 21, 08 3:57 PM CST
  
  UK social networking site Badoo has received $30 million to build its service in Russia from Russian investor Finam, giving Finam a 10% stake in the company. The network will face competition from several Russian sites and from the local version of MySpace, which launched last week, reports TechCrunch. Badoo has one attribute that sets it apart from competitors in the crowd of social networking sites, though: It’s ad-free. More »
  
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  Russia • social networking

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