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Social Networking

Started by S Goldstein; Last updated by S Goldstein

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 2007
    • Advertisers Won't Get It on eBay

      Advertisers Won't Get It on eBay

      (Newser) - Cable networks are boycotting eBay's experiment in auctioning television airtime to ad houses, in a decision that could ground its nascent spin-off site. The networks protest that Online Media Exchange, which eBay claimed would reduce inefficiency, doesn't account for today's complex targeting and multimedia promotional packages. More »

    • Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright

      Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright

      (Newser) - With Viacom incubating "the biggest copyright lawsuit in history" against YouTube, the video-sharing site is beginning to smell a bit like Napster. Which leads Clive Thompson to ponder in New York why the Google boys decided to acquire YouTube—and its looming crisis—last year. And why, once they had, they decided to stare down Sumner Redstone instead of sharing revenue. More »

  • March 2007
    • Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows

      Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows

      (Newser) - TV biggies NBC Universal and News Corp. are teaming up to hit YouTube with the full force of their their combined TV content, offered online for free. Starting this summer, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. subsidiary MySpace will hope to win over internet users (and the advertising that goes with them) with shows like 24 and Heroes . More »

    • YouTube Trickster Comes Clean

      YouTube Trickster Comes Clean

      (Newser) - An employe of the tech company that handles Barack Obama’s website admits making the notorious “Vote Different” YouTube video portraying Hillary Clinton as Big Brother – now one of the most watched videos on the web. Phil de Vellis writes on The Huffington Post that he created the attack ad to make a personal point about the future of presidential campaigns. More »

    • Turkey Bans YouTube

      Turkey Bans YouTube

      (Newser) - A Turkish court banned YouTube on Wednesday after Greek videos on the site insulted Turks—in particular Ataturk, the country's modern founding father—calling them homosexuals. The videos, part of an escalating "virtual war" between Greek and Turkish citizens belittling each other, were deemed an insult to Turkishness, a crime punishable by imprisonment. More »

    • Newmark Brains Scammers

      Newmark Brains Scammers

      (Newser) - “We are not really that high-tech of a company,” the man who brought classifieds into the Internet age, Craig’s List founder Newmark, tells the New York Observer, explaining why he uses a combo of customer feedback and his own memory—instead of techie solutions like IP-address blockers or email tracing—to track the real estate scammers who populate the site. More »

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MRT's X1 Recording Control Flatlining Stream Ripping on MySpace and Apple's iTunes.  (PRNewsFoto/Media Rights Technologies)
MRT's X1 Recording Control Flatlining Stream Ripping on MySpace and Apple's iTunes. (PRNewsFoto/Media Rights Technologies)   (Associated Press)
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Media baron Rupert Murdoch, who controls News Corp., speaks at the company's Global Energy Initiative on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 in New York. News Corp. reported a 6.2 percent profit increase for its latest quarter Wednesday on higher earnings from movies including
Media baron Rupert Murdoch, who controls News Corp., speaks at the company's Global Energy Initiative on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 in New York. News Corp. reported a 6.2 percent profit increase for its latest...   (Associated Press)
My facebook friend map
My facebook friend map   ((c) ethorson)
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