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Social Networking

From Facebook to MySpace to LinkedIn to Twitter to dozens of others, social networks are either the Net's next phase or the Net's next fad (maybe both?), as we spend more and more of our lives online

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April 2008
- Israeli Army Gets Tough on Facebook Users
  
  newser | BBC | Apr 11, 08 5:52 PM CDT
  
  Israel is taking steps to neutralize its newest security threat: Facebook. The army is tightening rules on what soldiers can and can't post on the social-networking site, the BBC reports. Apparently, some were putting up photos of themselves posing with top-secret weaponry. "Most of the soldiers don't understand how much damage it may cause," said one Air Force official. More »
- MySpace Cuts Distribution Deal for Its Video Content
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 11, 08 12:20 PM CDT
  
  MySpace has signed with a British production firm for international distribution of video content it develops, in a sign that News Corp's social network aims to be a breeding ground for small-screen programming. Indeed, in revealing the deal with the Shine Group—whose CEO is News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch’s daughter—MySpace declared itself “Hollywood’s digital playground,” the New York Times reports. More »
- Post to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter In One Shot
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Apr 9, 08 8:15 PM CDT
  
  Several new services join personal Internet feeds into a single space, meaning you don’t have to re-post the same new information to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The CEO of Seesmic, a video-conversation service, says it’s frustrating to pick through 10 different social networks—and his company has just bought Twhirl, which allows users to post on three different feeds at once, Technology Review reports. More »
- Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 7, 08 2:01 PM CDT
  
  Pending lawsuits between Facebook and rival social networking site ConnectU will be settled, a source tells the New York Times . The founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas back when both sites were in their infancy, and the Facebook CEO filed a countersuit against his former Harvard classmates. Terms of the settlement haven't been disclosed. More »
- 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 »
- 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 »
March 2008
- 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 »
- Yahoo Joins Google Social Network Alliance
  
  newser | Reuters | Mar 26, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo will join Google in developing the latter's open social networking framework OpenSocial, the company announced yesterday. The two giants, along with other partners, also announced the creation of a foundation to oversee the effort. Neither Facebook nor Microsoft, which have an advertising agreement, are part of OpenSocial; Facebook on its own already has 19,000 independent applications developed for its platform. More »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- Prosecutors Probe Gossip Site
  
  newser | Associated Press | Mar 19, 08 5:21 PM CDT
  
  Prosecutors have hit college gossip site JuicyCampus.com with subpoenas for records, the AP reports. New Jersey’s Attorney General Anne Milgram is investigating whether the site violates the Consumer Fraud Act by stating that it doesn’t tolerate offensive material but doing nothing to enforce that claim. "There's an unbelievable amount of offensive material posted and absolutely no enforcement," said Milgram. More »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- Internet Addiction Rising
  
  newser | Ars Technica | Mar 15, 08 8:37 AM CDT
  
  Internet addiction is no longer a punchline—it’s a serious mental malady that’s gained acceptance from the scientific community, Ars Technica reports. A significant percentage of the US population feels “disconnect anxiety” when away from the internet or their cell phones, an extensive research effort by the Solutions Research Group found. More »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- 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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