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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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January 2008
- 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 »
- 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 »
- Colleges Turn to New Media to Recruit Students
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jan 7, 08 4:35 PM CST
  
  If MySpace and Facebook are where the high school kids are, then that’s where college recruiters are headed. Schools competing for today’s tech-savvy teens are reaching out to them through podcasts, online videos, virtual campus tours, live chats, blogs, and social networking profiles, reports the Boston Globe —and those stuffy old admissions officers are increasingly in touch with prospectives via IM and text. More »
December 2007
- New Web Trend Sparks David vs. Goliath 2.0
  
  newser | Wired | Dec 31, 07 4:14 PM CST
  
  Some call it “scraping,” others call it “importing.” Either way, it’s a controversial process pitting independent software developers against the titans of the cyber world: Techies compile, or scrape, loads of data from search engines and social networking sites and pool the data on their own websites, Wired reports. Some companies, relishing the increased traffic, love the service. More »
- IBM Launches Social Mapping Biz Tool
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Dec 29, 07 7:39 PM CST
  
  IBM has released a software tool named 'Atlas' that aims to track and analyze statistical relationships among individuals in a corporate setting, MIT Technology Review reports. Employees are given the opportunity to partake in business-adapted online practices—blogging, social grouping, bookmarking, organizing projects—and Atlas creates a "social graph" of the relationships formed among participants. More »
- Campaign for Young Voters: Vote 4 Me! Pls?
  
  newser | McClatchy Newspapers | Dec 24, 07 10:17 AM CST
  
  New technology has given presidential hopefuls a host of new ways to transmit the "Vote For Me" message, McClatchy reports. Campaigners are using social networking sites, YouTube videos, instant messaging, and even text messaging in a bid to gain an edge with young voters. But their target audience seems more bemused by it all than fired up with campaign fever. More »
- MySpace Battles Facebook Buzz to Stay on Top
  
  newser | USA Today | Dec 21, 07 1:10 PM CST
  
  Facing competition for buzz and advertising from much smaller but much-hyped Facebook, MySpace has big plans for expansion. The free-form social networking site's founders want to transform it into a one-stop portal where users can check email and get news. The site is also unveiling new services, expanding overseas, and planning to allow multiple profiles, reports USA Today . More »
- Teenagers Still Addicted to POTS
  
  newser | USA Today | Dec 20, 07 7:39 PM CST
  
  Internet use among teenagers continues to rise—93% of teens have some sort of access, and 64% contribute some kind of content on a regular basis. But, despite the proliferation of cell phones and a myriad of bleeding-edge choices, the No.1 communications tool for teens remains the land line, USA Today reports, citing a Pew Internet Project study. More »
- Her Space is in the Music Biz
  
  newser | New York Times | Dec 18, 07 7:15 PM CST
  
  Living with her parents and toiling as a teacher in an after-school program, Ingrid Michaelson’s music career consisted of gigs in a coffee shop and a dream of having one of her songs on “Grey’s Anatomy.” Thanks to MySpace, the dream has come true, a New York Times profile says. Instead of just one song on “Grey’s,” she got three, and then was asked to write a song just for the show. More »
- Let Facebook Ring from the Ivory Tower
  
  newser | Washington Post | Dec 16, 07 12:11 PM CST
  
  Move over, preening teenagers: byte-thirsty academics are now frequenting social networking hangouts like Facebook and MySpace. Hoping to snatch a dissertation out of the latest digital craze, plus a side of fame, they’ll all have to line up behind danah boyd (small caps intended), a Berkeley PhD candidate who’s become a “celebrademic” with her insight on social networking and its effects. More »
- Sweet <3, It's Not U, It's Me
  
  newser | Reuters | Dec 14, 07 3:27 PM CST
  
  Emails and text messages are becoming the dumping grounds for a new generation of lovers, with one in seven people saying they've been broken up with digitally. Moreover, survey results out today reveal that while face-to-face showdowns still beat Facebook as the preferred method for breakups, 1% of respondents would use online social networks to part ways, Reuters reports. More »
- Classmates.com Fails to Score IPO
  
  newser | Wired | Dec 13, 07 1:07 AM CST
  
  Classmates.com received an early dismissal today after its owners withdrew a planned IPO for the social networking site. United Online cited turbulent market conditions, but analysts say the real reason is waning popularity of the site and its overpriced offering. The interest in IPOs is there, one analyst explained, “but Classmates.com certainly is not the crown beauty of the space.” More »
- Bebo Adopts Facebook-Style Ad Platform
  
  newser | GigaOm | Dec 12, 07 5:37 PM CST
  
  Bebo, the most popular social networking site in Britain, announced today that it will launch an application platform modeled on that of Facebook, GigaOm reports. The launch is the result of a collaboration with its US counterpart, so that developers of Facebook apps will be able to port their work to Bebo with minimal effort. More »
- Parents Sue MySpace After Teen’s Suicide
  
  newser | Dallas Morning News | Dec 12, 07 1:31 PM CST
  
  The parents of a 14-year-old who killed herself after being sexually assaulted by a man she met online have sued MySpace, charging the social networker “fostered” their daughter’s “despicable relationship" and pushing for more controls. "With MySpace's right to make a profit comes a responsibility to protect its customers," the parents' lawyer told the Dallas Morning News . More »
- Penthouse Buys Swinger Social Network Sites
  
  newser | New York Times | Dec 12, 07 9:10 AM CST
  
  Stung by the blow that free videos have dealt to the sex-related entertainment industry, Penthouse Media Group is investing $500M in social networking sites. Penthouse has acquired Various Inc., whose flagship site, adultfriendfinder, is a self-described personals community for swingers and sex, the New York Times reports. More »
- LinkedIn Goes 2.0
  
  newser | PC World | Dec 10, 07 2:57 PM CST
  
  LinkedIn will start allowing user-created applications as part of an effort to keep up with social networking competitors like Facebook and MySpace, PC World reports. The professional networking site said today it has redesigned its home page and plans to display relevant BusinessWeek stories on users' profiles, as well as highlighting stories their colleagues are reading. More »
- Universal, Last of Majors, Signs On to Imeem
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Dec 10, 07 8:49 AM CST
  
  Universal Music Group is the last of the major record label groups, and the largest, to sign a deal with social-networking site Imeem. The site allows users to upload songs to their pages, but not download or store them on computers or iPods, reports the Wall Street Journal. Every time someone plays a track, Imeem will pay Universal a fixed fee, in addition to sharing ad revenues. More »
- UK Court Bans Teen's Insults From Web
  
  newser | Time | Dec 7, 07 3:29 PM CST
  
  A British court has put a low-tech law to high-tech use in a bid to keep a teenager from writing abusive comments about police on the internet. The court issued an Anti-Social Behavior Order—usually used to keep hooligans out of certain parts of town—against a 17-year-old to prevent him from posting more anti-police diatribes on the Bebo social networking site, Time reports. More »
- Facebook CEO Apologizes for Ad System
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Dec 5, 07 5:07 PM CST
  
  Facebook CEO's apologized today for the company's new advertising system and told users they can disable it, the Wall Street Journal reports. The system, which tracks users' web activities, raised a firestorm of complaints over privacy concerns. "We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them," Mark Zuckerberg wrote on the company's blog. More »
- U(Tube) Can't Touch This!
  
  newser | NPR | Dec 5, 07 3:59 PM CST
  
  Dance is lighting up small screens all over—witness “Dancing with the Stars,” “So You Think You Can Dance?,” and Jud Laipply's “The Evolution of Dance”—currently the most viewed clip on YouTube. But it's going to be Hammer Time again, as dance-icon MC Hammer seeks to tap this phenomenon with DanceJam, a YouTube-style site focusing only on dance videos. More »

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