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April 2008
- Facebook App 'Nose' Where U R
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Apr 3, 08 12:02 PM CDT
  
  A Facebook application launching in the UK will put people’s friends on the map—in real time, reports the Times . The Social Network Integrated Friend Finder or ‘Sniff’ app lets users pinpoint a friend’s cell phone down to the nearest 650 feet. Privacy is a priority: users need to give permission before they can be tracked, and they can specify who can and can't zero in on them. More »
  
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  cell phones • United Kingdom • Facebook • cell phone industry • surveillance • text messaging
- New Site Wants Your Wikipedia Rejected Bio
  
  newser | Ars Technica | Apr 2, 08 9:45 PM CDT
  
  While Wikipedia may promote itself as an encyclopedia of, for, and by the people, anybody who's had his stint as autobiographer cut short by the infamous "notability" requirement knows the site to be otherwise. Or so hope the creators of startup Biographicon, a website that invites the nobodies of the world to publish their life stories, writes Ars Technica. More »
  
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  Internet • Facebook • Wikipedia • biography • autobiography • online encyclopedia
- Top Google Engineer Decamps for EMI Music
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 2, 08 11:56 AM CDT
  
  A top Google engineer has signed on to help guide EMI Music through a restructuring, in the wake of its acquisition by after private equity firm Terra Firma, reports the New York Times . Douglas Merrill, Google’s VP of engineering, will become president of digital at the world’s fourth-largest music company. More »
  
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  Google • Facebook • music industry • EMI Music • Terra Firma Capital • Google Checkout
March 2008
- Silicon Valley Unplugs for Meetings
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Mar 31, 08 1:09 PM CDT
  
  Tired of competing for attention with iPhones, BlackBerrys and laptops, some Silicon Valley companies are banning them from meetings. One exec calls it going "topless," short for laptopless, and the Los Angeles Times reports that it's boosting some companies' efficiency. "Aside from just being rude," an exec wrote, "partial attention generally leads to partial results." More »
  
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  Internet • Facebook • iPhone • technology • computer • BlackBerry • university • laptop • Internet access • classroom • Internet addiction
- Chat Rooms Return—in 3-D
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 31, 08 11:11 AM CDT
  
  A group of Silicon Valley startups is looking to bring the "social" back into social-networking and other popular websites, the New York Times reports. Vivaty is developing 3-D virtual chat rooms users can embed in web pages—including social-networking profiles—and will begin Facebook testing this week. And Meebo’s 2-D chat rooms, launched last year, have proliferated fast. More »
  
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  Internet • Facebook • social networking • Silicon Valley • startup • chat room • Meebo
- Photoshop for the Rest of Us
  
  newser | CNET | Mar 27, 08 9:00 AM CDT
  
  Adobe’s Photoshop has long been the standard for high-end image editing, but for Joe Q. Digital Camera, it’s too imposing, too complicated, and much too expensive. Today, Adobe hopes to fix all that, rolling out Photoshop Express, its free, web-based photo editor. The flash-based editor gives point-and-clickers a quick, easy way to eliminate red eye, smooth over blemishes, and otherwise mess around, CNet reports. More »
  
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  Facebook • digital photography • Adobe • Photoshop • doctored photo • photo editing • Photobucket
- 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
- Mideast Strife Spills Onto Facebook
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Mar 20, 08 11:37 AM CDT
  
  Facebook has now had to take on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Guardian reports, on account of its standard IDing of members by country. Jewish settlers in the West Bank were fuming when the site told them they lived in Palestine; Palestinians in East Jerusalem in turn protested that their turf was listed as part of Israel. More »
  
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  Israel • Facebook • Palestine • West Bank • East Jerusalem • settlers
- After Beacon 'Screw Up' Facebook Ups Privacy
  
  newser | PC World | Mar 19, 08 1:18 PM CDT
  
  Facebook is launching a series of new privacy features today, allowing users to better pinpoint who can see which parts of their information, PC World reports. Privacy has been a watchword at Facebook ever since the PR disaster that was the Beacon advertising platform, which tracked users online. “With Beacon, we just screwed it up,” one VP admitted. More »
  
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  Facebook • online privacy • Beacon • instant messaging • chat room • privacy settings
- For Generation 'Look at Me,' Every Moment Is Public
  
  newser | Newsweek | Mar 16, 08 1:21 PM CDT
  
  They’re known as millennials, the documentation generation, and the Look at Me’s. But what defines Americans born after 1982 is a mindset that every moment can be turned into a performance worthy of YouTube and MySpace and maybe parlayed into broader fame, Newsweek reports. Now sociologists are asking: Can healthy identities and relationships thrive in a generation obsessed with self-presentation and exhibitionism? More »
  
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  celebrity • Facebook • YouTube • MySpace • teenagers • reality TV • MySpace Celebrity • Laguna Beach
- As Press Closes In, 'Kristen' Clams Up
  
  newser | CNN | Mar 14, 08 3:20 PM CDT
  
  The woman introduced to the world this week as a prostitute named “Kristen”—aspiring singer Ashley Alexandra Dupre—is trying to maintain some privacy as she keeps close tabs on her Facebook and MySpace accounts, CNN reports. After the New York Times revealed her identity, she began cleaning up her profiles on the sites, seemingly trying to exert control over what the public could see. More »
  
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  Facebook • MySpace • media • Eliot Spitzer • sex scandal • prostitution • online privacy • Ashley Alexandra Dupre • Kristen
- Facebook to Users: Sell Stuff, Get Paid
  
  newser | Associated Press | Mar 13, 08 4:31 PM CDT
  
  Facebook has rolled out a new service that encourages users to recommend products to their friends and make a little money in the process, AP reports. Called Market Lodge, the program allows users to set up personal stores on their Facebook pages and hawk a variety of products from a chosen list. Merchants handle any sales, but users make a 10% commission on each. More »
  
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  Facebook • online advertising • Beacon • Internet sales
- 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
- Facebook Poaches COO From Google
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 4, 08 3:35 PM CST
  
  Facebook has hired the Google VP who handles virtually all advertising sales in a bid to ease the hiccups the rapidly expanding networking site is encountering. New COO Sheryl Sandberg, one of Silicon Valley's top female execs, denied that Google's plummeting stock price motivated the move, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »
  
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  Google • Facebook • online advertising • Silicon Valley • Mark Zuckerberg • advertising sales • Sheryl Sandberg
- 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
- 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

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