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 Families' Mornings 
 Start with Tech Check 

Families boot up computers, phones on waking

Aug 10, 09 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to morning routines, the modern family has a new set of priorities, many of which require a screen, the New York Times reports. “It used to be you woke up, went to the bathroom, maybe brushed your teeth, and picked up the newspaper,” says an... More »

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technology • social networking • Internet • sleep • parenting • iPhone • Facebook • BlackBerry • family • text messaging addiction • text message • laptop • texting • Twitter • women's issues • routine

Administration Alums Plan Facebook for Bushies

Bushies want an alternative to left-leaning Facebook

Aug 9, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush-Cheney Alumni Association is taking to the Internet, reports Politico, by setting up a social networking website for people who worked in the Bush administration. The Bushies-only site is expected to launch in a few months, says the head of the BCAA, who expects “thousands” to sign up.... More »

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Bush administration • social networking • Dick Cheney • Facebook • membership • George W. Bush

(Newser) - The Georgian blogger who was taken offline in the cyberattack that shut down Twitter on Thursday believes Moscow is the culprit, he tells the Guardian. The economics professor, who goes by the online name Cyxymu, says he believes Russian authorities targeted him with the denial-of-service attack because of his persistent... More »

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Russia • cyberattack • hacker • Facebook • Georgia • blogger • LiveJournal • Twitter • Abkhazia • denial of service attack

(Newser) - So why did Tweets fall silent for much of today? One leading theory traces the problem to the unlikeliest of places—the conflict between Russia and Georgia, CNET reports. It goes like this: A pro-Georgia blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and the other sites affected by today's slowdown attracted... More »

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Russia • Internet • YouTube • spam • Facebook • Georgia • LiveJournal • Twitter

 E-Commerce 
 Revs Up on 
 Facebook 

Dozens of storefront applications due to open in months ahead

Aug 5, 09 4:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook is poised to become a major destination for online shopping as more sophisticated E-commerce applications appear, reports the Financial Times. Floral gift retailer 1-800-Flowers opened a Facebook storefront last week and the software developer behind it says at least 20 more retailers will open for business via Facebook in... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • 1 800 flowers.com • Internet applications • e-commerce

Facebook Bad for Teens, Warns Archbishop

Social networking degrades friendship, can lead to suicide

Aug 2, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook and MySpace are degrading our ability to relate to one another and pushing young people to suicide, the head of the Catholic Church in England tells the Telegraph. Archbishop Vincent Nichols is concerned that social-networking websites encourage teens to form only “transient relationships,” which can leave them... More »

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social networking • Internet • suicide • MySpace • Facebook • Bebo • community

(Newser) - The US military is considering restrictions on access to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, citing privacy and security concerns, the Military Times reports. “Sometimes people, because of the nature of these sites, can have a tendency to get lax in what they put on there,”... More »

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national security • social networking • Internet • Pentagon • Facebook • US military • bandwidth • Twitter

(Newser) - It’s been five entire days since Sarah Palin ceased being an elected official, and her fans are restless, the AP reports. “Sarah can you give us just a hint!” pleaded one Facebook follower. Said another: “Sarah, our country really NEEDS YOU NOW!!!” Palin promised to... More »

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social networking • Facebook • Sarah Palin • Twitter

(Newser) - 1-800-Flowers.com continues its record of early technology adoption, Robin Wauters writes in TechCrunch, opening a storefront within Facebook. The company hit the Internet at the surprisingly early date of 1992, and was the first retailer on AOL two years later. It claims it’s the first retailer operating on... More »

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social networking • Internet • online retailers • Facebook • 1 800 flowers.com • flowers • mobile Internet

 5 Jobs in Social Networking 


Jul 28, 09 4:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook addiction interfering with your work? Perhaps you should get a job where an intimate understanding of social networking is a prerequisite. Rachel Zupek runs down five possibilities for CNN.
  • Recruiter: The social networks are swarming with qualified candidates, "and it's about time recruiters joined them." They
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social networking • Internet • Facebook • employment • job market • recruiting • Twitter

ANALYSIS

Facebook Crosses Line
on Privacy ... Again

Recognize that face in an ad? It could be your friend—or you.

Jul 28, 09 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Imagine Peter Smith’s surprise when an ad for “hot singles” on Facebook featured a picture of … his wife. The site blames that flap on a third-party company violating policy, but the incident underscores Facebook’s notoriously unclear privacy settings, writes Bob Sullivan for MSNBC: “A hard-to-spot... More »

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privacy • Facebook • online privacy • privacy settings • advertisements • advertisers • invasion of privacy • Internet privacy

(Newser) - An application available today free for Apple’s iPhone gives users points for letting their social networks know about various real-life accomplishments, the Wall Street Journal reports. For instance, a post about your workout on Twitter or Facebook gets you a “Fitness Flicker” award in Booyah Society, and 10... More »

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entertainment • social networking • iPhone • Facebook • iPhone applications • Twitter • App Store • Booyah Society

Same-Name Couple to Wed After Meeting
on Facebook

Kelly Hildebrandt (F) made the first move

Jul 20, 09 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kelly Hildebrandt found her soon-to-be husband on Facebook—but not in the usual ways, such as through college or friends in common, the AP reports. The 20-year-old Floridian plugged her name into the social-networking site’s search engine and found the only match at the time—Texan Kelly Carl Hildebrandt.... More »

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Florida • social networking • Facebook • name • Kelly Hildebrandt

(Newser) - Facebook suffers from "serious privacy gaps" and must become more transparent about how personal information is handled to comply with the law, says a government watchdog in Canada. The report by the country's privacy commissioner marks the first time a government has found Facebook to be acting illegally, reports... More »

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social networking • Canada • privacy • Facebook • online data storage • Internet privacy • privacy policy

Fact-Challenged Facebook Book Not Making Many Friends

Author Mezrich defends his reporting methods

Jul 15, 09 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not everybody is friending a book detailing the birth of Facebook, Reuters reports. BusinessWeek calls Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires a “tawdry mismash,” amounting to “a fictionalized account of the founding.” The book is full of over-the-top scenes—like one in which Facebook founder Mark... More »

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Silicon Valley • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • book • nonfiction books • Danielle Steel • Ben Mezrich • Jackie Collins

(Newser) - Facebook is graying, and the Web has already produced an outlet for youngsters fleeing the site to escape friend requests from—gasp!—their parents, Time reports. MyParentsJoinedFacebook.com collects horror stories of parental incursion into the once uniformly young realm of social networking. “No matter how embarrassing... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • children • parents • World Wide Web • etiquette • Twitter

(Newser) - Michael Jackson has become the most popular person in Facebook history, AllFacebook reports. A Jackson page on the site has now surpassed one for Barack Obama with a total of 6.4 million fans, and is gaining 20 more per second. A virtual version of Jackson's glove has become Facebook's... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • Michael Jackson

 Wife of Would-Be 
 Brit Spy Chief Blows 
 Cover on Facebook 

Posts beach trip photos, location information

Jul 5, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain’s incoming spy chief has blown his cover even before he takes office this fall, thanks to his wife, who posted family pictures on Facebook—without that pesky privacy protection, the Daily Telegraph reports. Anyone in the London network could see vacation photos of the soon-to-be head of MI6... More »

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Facebook • photograph • MI6 • Britain • John Sawers

(Newser) - Facebook is starting a pilot program to test a more user-friendly version of its sprawling privacy controls, CNET reports. The 40 different settings now occupy six separate pages, and are so complicated that many users ignore them completely. “These can add up and pile up and not be as... More »

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social networking • online advertising • Facebook • online privacy • privacy settings • website • Internet security • World Wide Web

Facebook Adds Twitter-esque Public Posts

Users can restrict content—or open it
to the whole web

Jun 26, 09 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a clear challenge to Twitter, Facebook is testing a system that allows users to publish updates for all the world to see,  Wired reports. The new feature technically allows users to restrict their content, allowing, for example, only family to see this photo or only certain friends to... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • Twitter

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