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February 2008
- You've Got No Mail: DC Techies Ponder Life After AOL
  
  newser | Washington Post | Feb 18, 08 10:12 AM CST
  
  AOL is moving its HQ to New York, cutting nearly half of its 5,700 DC-area jobs, and leaving serious questions about the Washington, DC area’s tech industry in its wake. AOL’s declining fortunes have already hurt the sector, but local techies and VCs have fought back with numerous startups, reports the Washington Post . More »
  
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  Google • New York City • Facebook • Washington DC • AOL • startup • tech industry • venture capitalists • tech sector • Dulles
- 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
- 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
- Microsoft + Yahoo: Still Not Sexy to Job Applicants?
  
  newser | New York Times | Feb 4, 08 2:52 PM CST
  
  Among the many uncertainties about a Microsoft-Yahoo marriage is whether the combined company would gain any sex appeal in the Silicon Valley recruiting market, reports the New York Times . If both are washed up compared to job fair belles like Google and Facebook, would joining help them prevail in the more-competitive-than-ever race for talent? More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • Facebook • mergers and acquisitions
- Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Feb 3, 08 6:50 PM CST
  
  Most blog posts, Flickr pics, and YouTube vids are junk, a Los Angeles Times blogger laments, but Facebook has drummed up a cyberspace winner called Graffiti. The online painting tool has had more than 8 million users and sparked fine submissions in Dell’s “ReGeneration Contest," which asks artists to "explain what green means to you." More »
  
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  Facebook • YouTube • art • Dell • Flickr • graffiti
- Zuckerberg Spills the Beans About Facebook Finances
  
  newser | All Things Digital | Feb 1, 08 12:12 PM CST
  
  Mark Zuckerberg got talkative with the Facebook staff yesterday. The boy CEO shared intimate details of the privately-owned company’s finances to an all-staff meeting with an open phone-in line—“It was really unbelievable,” marveled one. The numbers indicated a fall from break-even grace for the company in 2008, when it will have a negative cash flow of $150 million, reports All Things Digital. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • finances
- Focus on Youth Benefits Obama
  
  newser | Time | Feb 1, 08 11:04 AM CST
  
  The youth vote is back, and that’s a very good thing for Barack Obama. Young people are voting in numbers not seen in decades, and they prefer Obama by an astounding margin. In Iowa, under-25 turnout was up 135%, and those voters favored Obama 4 to 1. And the 46-year-old didn’t luck into this groundswell, Time reports; he methodically built it. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Facebook • Obama 2008 • young voters
January 2008
- MySpace to Open Platform to Developers
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 30, 08 1:00 PM CST
  
  Following the lead of rival Facebook, social networking giant MySpace will launch the MySpace Developer Platform next week, giving programmers deeper access to its site--possibly including the ability to tap into MySpace user data, AP reports. MySpace already informally allows programmers to develop widgets for it, and hopes the new platform will help developers make more money through the site. More »
  
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  Facebook • MySpace • Scrabulous • widget • platforms
- 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
- From Clerk to Rogue Trader to Facebook Laughingstock
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 25, 08 11:14 AM CST
  
  You don’t need a fancy education to lose $7.2 billion and become an Internet laughingstock. In the clubby world of French banking, Société Générale traders are usually the Gallic equivalent of Ivy League MBAs, but Jérôme Kerviel, a lowly biz school grad, worked his way up from shy clerk to secretive junior trader, the New York Times reports. Clearly, this man deserves the Nobel Prize for Economics. More »
  
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  Facebook • Société Générale • Jérôme Kerviel • bank fraud • Nobel Prize in Economics
- Tonight May Be Game Over for Scrabulous
  
  newser | TechCrunch | Jan 22, 08 2:44 PM CST
  
  Scrabulous—the wildly popular Facebook app based (without permission) on Scrabble—may have to fold up its board tonight. Hasbro and Mattel, which jointly own the rights to the board game, have set the deadline for the online game to either shut itself down or sell itself to Electronic Arts, which owns the online rights. More »
  
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  Facebook • copyright infringement • Scrabulous • Scrabble
- Humanitarian Relief is a Text Message Away
  
  newser | CNET | Jan 17, 08 6:33 PM CST
  
  A Google-funded website that uses technology to spread the word about emergencies launches today, CNET reports. The company's charitable arm has put $5 million into InSTEDD, which will use social software like Twitter and Facebook to alert humanitarian groups to crises and organize rescue operations. “Social networking in the humanitarian space, that's something you're going to see,” InSTEDD’s CEO said. More »
  
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  Google • Facebook • relief • Google Earth • open source • humanitarian crisis • UNICEF • twitter
- Jamba Founders Buy Stake In Facebook
  
  newser | TechCrunch | Jan 16, 08 12:29 AM CST
  
  Brothers Alexander, Marc and Oliver Samwer, founders of ring tone company Jamba, have just joined Microsoft and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing as major investors in US based social networking company Facebook. Though the Samwers' haven't disclosed the exact size of their investment, they told Der Spiegel it was "significant," but smaller than Microsoft's $240 million. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Facebook • social networking • private equity
- MySpace Adds Anti-Predator Measures
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 14, 08 7:18 PM CST
  
  MySpace will add protections to prevent abuse by sexual predators, officials of several states said today. The social networking company reached an agreement with 49 states over concerns about predators contacting children through its popular site. MySpace will also join a working group aimed at developing new technologies, such as age verification, and that other sites will be invited as well, the AP reports. More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • MySpace • Internet security • sexual predators
- Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 14, 08 2:52 PM CST
  
  With Google, Facebook, and MySpace gnawing at its top-dog status, Yahoo is reinventing some foundation applications to make them appeal to a new generation of users, reports the New York Times . First step? Turbocharging Yahoo Mail to make it more a communications hub and less a post office, a prototype Yahoo demo'd at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. More »
  
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  Google • Yahoo • Facebook • MySpace • Jerry Yang • web traffic • Consumer Electronics Show • web portal
- Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone
  
  newser | Fortune Magazine | Jan 12, 08 6:00 AM CST
  
  Hasbro, maker of the classic board game Scrabble, is moving to shut down Scrabulous, a widely popular—and virtually identical—online knockoff. It's currently the ninth most popular application on all of Facebook, with 2.3 million users. Scrabulous’ developers estimate their app brings in about $25,000 a month, about which Hasbro is none too pleased. More »
  
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  Facebook • Electronic Arts • Hasbro • Scrabulous • knockoff • Scrabble
- MySpace Launches Celeb Portal
  
  newser | CNET | Jan 10, 08 9:57 AM CST
  
  MySpace is rolling out a new section today dedicated to celebrity news and personalities, CNET reports. “MySpace Celebrity” will provide entertainment news, celebrity profiles, and gossip from People magazine, as well as video content. It will also index official celebrity MySpace profiles—which numbered more than 300 at launch. More »
  
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  celebrity • Facebook • MySpace • gossip • Tom Anderson • MySpace Celebrity
- Facebook Hoaxer Part of Plot to Smear Bilawal: Dad
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 3, 08 5:41 AM CST
  
  Several news editors and internet surfers fell hook, line and sinker for a Facebook hoaxer pretending to be Benazir Bhutto's son and political heir—and an aide for his dad charged that it was part of a smear campaign by the Pakistani government. The fake Facebook site has 19-year-old Bilawal confessing he is "not a born leader" and is a big fan of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." More »
  
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  Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • Facebook • Pakistan People's Party • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari • Internet hoax

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