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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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December 2007
- News Corp Gets That New-Time Religion
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Dec 5, 07 9:17 AM CST
  
  Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has inked an eight-figure deal to buy Beliefnet, the US' most popular religion website, as a platform to promote the company's religious books and programming, the Wall Street Journal reports. Details of the transaction weren't released, but the site will become a part of News Corp's film and television division, Fox Entertainment Group, rather than the interactive media division. More »
- MySpace Will Transmit Blunt
  
  newser | New York Times | Dec 5, 07 1:47 AM CST
  
  MySpace will host and sell videos of exclusive musical performances on its MySpace Music site, reports the New York Times . Artists will record a series of exclusive videos for the site, and will be able to set their own prices, unlike Apple's iTunes flat-rate prices. The system, called Transmissions, won't require users to leave MySpace, as an earlier, failed system did. More »
- Bad Lip-Lock Is Kiss of Death
  
  newser | CNN | Dec 4, 07 9:10 AM CST
  
  You must remember this: A kiss isn't just a kiss. If it's bad, it can actually kill a budding relationship, a new survey says. Some 59% of men and 66% of women said they've had the hots for someone—until that first, deadly kiss, CNN reports. "I knew this girl I'll call Big Tongue," recalls one luckless dater. "She was very forceful with it, and I started choking." More »
- No Charges in Cyberbullying Suicide Case
  
  newser | Wired | Dec 4, 07 4:00 AM CST
  
  No charges will be filed in the cyberbullying case that led a young girl to commit suicide, Wired reports. A Missouri prosecutor found there was not enough evidence to prove criminal intent on the part of mother Lori Drew and others who launched an online bullying campaign against 13-year-old Megan Meier through a hoax MySpace persona called "Josh." More »
- Pioneer Blog Site Popular in Russia Sold
  
  newser | Reuters | Dec 3, 07 3:03 PM CST
  
  A free blog site that pioneered personal web publishing among Russia’s intellectuals has been sold to a pair of entrepreneurs who promise to add cash and expand it globally, Reuters reports. Six Apart said it sold LiveJournal, which claims 14.3 million blog accounts and 20 million visitors a month—in the US, largely among teenage girls—to SUP. Terms were not disclosed. More »
- Facebook Court Defeat May Presage a Fall
  
  newser | All Things Digital | Dec 2, 07 1:38 PM CST
  
  Facebook has been handed a defeat in its attempts to censor the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 , which published confidential court documents relating to founder Mark Zuckerberg's earlier work for a rival site. That's a good thing, says Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal , for whom the attempted injunction was "essentially a legal temper tantrum." More »
November 2007
- $$$ Thrown at Buzz Drive Facebook's Beacon Plans
  
  newser | Ars Technica | Nov 30, 07 11:42 AM CST
  
  Facebook's efforts to fix its Beacon system show that talk isn't cheap, as marketers increasingly are finding it’s a great way to spread the word about their product. Word-of-mouth advertising has taken off, with nearly $981 million being spent on campaigns last year, a 36% increase from 2005, reports Ars Technica. Companies are now integrating WoM into every campaign. More »
- Facebook Backs Off Beacon
  
  newser | Washington Post | Nov 30, 07 6:36 AM CST
  
  Facebook has watered down its unpopular Beacon ad platform, which "shared" information about users' online shopping habits with everyone in their Facebook network—without their permission. Now, instead of making users opt out every time they make a purchase if they don't want it to be broadcast, Facebook will only broadcast the transaction if user click "ok." More »
- Your Log-in Please, Sir?
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Nov 29, 07 10:49 PM CST
  
  The super-rich are joining the social networking craze, but they're certainly not going to mix with the masses on MySpace. Exclusive sites for millionaires using the same membership criteria as snooty country clubs are appearing on the Web, reports the Wall Street Journal . Invitation-only site aSmallWorld.net has proven popular—some say too popular. More »
- Newspapers Look to Make Connections
  
  newser | Reuters | Nov 28, 07 10:26 AM CST
  
  Newspapers readers at an increasing pace are turning to Pluck, a media syndication company, to link their sites to social networks, like MySpace and Facebook, giving them access to 165 million users, Reuters reports. Pluck will use the Facebook programming interface and Google's OpenSocial system to share information between its customer's sites and the most prominent social nets. More »
- Privacy, Shmivacy: Facebook Is Doomed
  
  newser | InformationWeek | Nov 27, 07 10:05 AM CST
  
  Aggressive new advertising tactics make Facebook look more evil by the day, but don’t worry, InformationWeek columnist Cory Doctorow writes, because it’s doomed anyway. Sure social networks are “pure crack” for some, but sooner or later everyone gets friended by someone they’d rather avoid, and eventually that awkwardness is too much to bear. More »
- Facebook Feud Heats Up
  
  newser | 02138 | Nov 27, 07 8:59 AM CST
  
  Three former Harvard students who are suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea are finally about to get their day in court, reports the indy Harvard alumni magazine 02138 . Forensic data experts are searching Zuckerberg’s computer hard drives, searching for source code, which the company claims is lost, that would confirm or deny intellectual property theft. More »
- New Trend May Have Fans Shout, 'I Want My ITV!'
  
  newser | Reuters | Nov 26, 07 2:41 AM CST
  
  MTV just may become a thing of the past, thanks to a new wave sweeping the Net called “interactive video.” Encouraged by the popularity of music videos online, but frustrated by poor web quality, producers are allowing users to create their own video-viewing experience. Indie favorite Arcade Fire released their new single by letting fans click through the band’s clips. More »
- Networking Teens Risk Identity Theft
  
  newser | Independent (UK) | Nov 23, 07 6:45 PM CST
  
  Millions of young users of social networking sites are risking identity theft because of information shared online, warns a UK study reported in the Independent today. Britain's privacy watchdog concludes that 4.5 million web users from 14 to 21 years old could be vulnerable to identity fraud, and young users posting personal information on sites also risk damaging educational and business prospects. More »
- Anger Brews Over Cyber Suicide
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Nov 17, 07 4:00 PM CST
  
  Police fear a "mob mentality" is brewing in a St. Louis suburb after a 13-year-old girl killed herself, and the hoaxers who allegedly prodded her have gone free. Two adults—parents of the girl's friend—badgered Megan Meier online until she hanged herself in her closet last October. Cops say they've been getting angry calls since the story broke last week, but insist that no law can corral the cyber-bullies. More »
- Techno Savvy Teens Turn Backs on Email
  
  newser | Slate | Nov 15, 07 4:01 PM CST
  
  If snail mail is going the way of the dodo, then it looks like, among teenagers, email is going the way of, well, the snail: half of all teens prefer instant messaging to old-fashioned emails; and while overall use increased six percent last year, e-missives among the "Facebook generation" dropped by eight percent, Slate reports. More »
- New VC Fund Wants Only Facebook Apps
  
  newser | MarketWatch | Nov 14, 07 12:26 PM CST
  
  Venture capitalist Lee Lorenzen is so enamored of Facebook that he started an investment fund just to finance developers creating applications for the social network site. Not only is Lorenzen investing in a month-and-a-half-old industry, last month at a conference he said Facebook might be worth $100 billion, more than six times the $15 billion valuation that came with Microsoft's purchase of a 1.6% stake. More »
- Facebook to Join Google's 'OpenSocial' Alliance?
  
  newser | Fortune Magazine | Nov 2, 07 4:49 PM CDT
  
  The day after MySpace announced it was joining a Google-led alliance meant to let applications written for one social networking site be used on others, it looks like lone outsider Facebook could join up, too. That's according to Fortune Magazine , which reported that Facebook and Google representatives met yesterday and that a board member said Facebook is open to the OpenSocial standard. More »
- MySpace May Join Google Social Project
  
  newser | CNET | Nov 1, 07 3:04 PM CDT
  
  Tech bloggers are buzzing about a rumored partnership between MySpace and Google’s about-to-be-launched OpenSocial project; a big reveal may come as soon as today. Though it still leads Facebook in membership and traffic, the social networker has lost much of its spotlight recently—and CNet’s Caroline McCarthy says the deal is likely a good move for MySpace owner News Corp. More »
October 2007
- Google Out to Smite Facebook Software Platform
  
  newser | New York Times | Oct 31, 07 11:56 AM CDT
  
  Google couldn't buy a piece of Facebook, so it's going after the social networking site's software platform instead. Tomorrow a Google-led alliance will introduce a common platform for software developers to write programs for Google's social site, Orkut, along with LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo, Ning and others. The hope is to one-up Facebook, the New York Times reports. More »

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