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Social networking — complete with blogging, profiles, and communities — is coming to a corporate office near you as technology giants IBM and Microsoft duke it out in the market for collaboration software. IBM lifted the lid on its Lotus Connection platform at the Lotusphere conference in Orlando on Monday. The new social-networking software aims to duplicate the success of Web sites like … (read post…)

IBM’s Lotus division draws from its roots in collaboration software to launch Lotus Connections, a social networking platform for businesses, along with a series of related offerings aimed at helping enterprises use Web 2.0 technology to refresh legacy solutions. (read post…)

Government spy agencies are turning to social-networking sites for very different reasons. Will Facebook and MySpace help to catch terrorists, or are they just recruiting tools (read post…)

Booming Internet social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are being targeted in a new bill meant to protect children from online predators. (read post…)

An air hostess is filing a case after discovering her fake profile at a social networking site. (read post…)

London, Jan 26: Grammy award winning band Black Eyed Peas’ member William has revealed that the album he is working on for Michael Jackson is likely to be released via a music website. (read post…)

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Detroit News - But a review of major blogging and social-networking Web sites shows that online diaries remain popular for teen-agers, and interviews with experts and young diarists such as Butler help explain the psychology behind going public with what used to be (read post )

Times Online - They claim the new service will give give users more flexibility, combining elements of social networking sites with features such as search, and media groups more control over content. The service is likely to compete with YouTube, the leader in (read post )

CNN - Last September, Google appealed a Brazilian judge’s order to turn over information on users of the company’s Orkut social-networking service. Google insisted it already had complied with court requests to identify individuals accused of using Orkut to (read post )

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Pat Croce has promoted hoops and pirates, so why not moms The fitness guru and serial entrepreneur is part of a group that recently invested $1.5 million in initial funding in MomJunction.com, a social networking site for mothers. (It reportedly has no connection to Petticoat Junction.) (read post…)

The concept that drives MySpace and others is also a catalyst for online health communities. (read post…)

New York, NY (PRWeb) January 9, 2007 — Did You, Inc. (read post…)

NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE — KickApps Corporation announced today that Alex Blum will join the company as CEO beginning February 1. Backed by Spark Capital and Prism VentureWorks, KickApps offers a hosted platform that provides major media and high traffic websites with a full range of user-generated video, social networking and media management functionality. (read post…)

Cincinnati Procter & Gamble Co. hopes to gain insight into consumer habits and interests by starting online forums for women to tell their stories and learn from each other about issues such as breast cancer and careers and for people who want to share their entertainment views. (read post…)

No doubt about it, 2006 was a banner year for online social networking, user-generated content, and online video. YouTube made history when Google (GOOG) agreed to buy it for $1.65 billion in October, and so did Facebook, when it turned down Yahoo’s (YHOO) $1.4 billion offer. (read post…)

Porn makers are taking a page from internet superstars such as YouTube and MySpace by tapping into the power of social networking. (read post…)

January 11, 2007 — The social networking business is the source of some significant hosting requirements, and a hotbed of new thinking on how customers can interact with one another - thinking that could have real value in the hosting business. (read post…)

Wallingford - MySpace, the rising social networking website, has been gaining popularity with local teenagers since its launch nearly three years ago. For many, the site provides a new way for people to express themselves. (read post…)

Social networking site MySpace will officially launch in France this Thursday. The company has been running a beta site in France. The launch is viewed as a broader move into Europe. MySpace will be competing with Skyblog that sprang from a French rap radio station. As of November Skyblog had 7 million unique visitors while MySpace had 1.3 million according to comScore Media Metrix. On … (read post…)

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A look at releases from Shaggy, Skillz, Laura Gibson, Lil’ Chris and Avril Lavigne. (read post…)

More than half of U.S. teenagers use social networking sites like MySpace, but girls go online to reaffirm existing friendships, while boys are more often there to flirt, a survey published on Sunday has found. (read post…)

Criminology Professor Dr. Sameer Hinduja and his research team at Florida Atlantic University determined the safety of more than 2,400 MySpace profiles of teenagers from across the country. (read post…)

A South Florida professor says teens are safer on MySpace.com than parents think. (read post…)

Most underage users of social networking site MySpace.com don’t display information or photos that could attract pedophiles, but a sizable percentage still post potentially provocative photos, a new study concludes. (read post…)

A Maryland couple is charged with child abuse after court documents allege they taught their 12-year-old daughter how to snort cocaine and smoke marijuana. (read post…)

By AMANDA LEHMERT STAFF WRITER FALMOUTH - A special education teaching assistant accused of posting inappropriate material on his MySpace.com Web site has been fired. (read post…)

Wood Harris knows about paying dues. Hes got a Master of Arts from New York University, and his acting roles range from someones sidekick, to a crime boss, to the greatest guitarist of all time. (read post…)

A study by Florida Atlantic University researchers has found that the school’s students are typically responsible users of the MySpace social Web site. (read post…)

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Parents, you’re doing a good job policing those social networking sites like MySpace.com - sometimes thought to be fishing holes for pedophiles, stalkers and identity thieves. (read post…)

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — A new study done in part by an educator at U-W Eau Claire says most young users of the MySpace Web site do so responsibly. The popular social networking site connects almost 150 (m) million users — about a quarter of them under 18. (read post…)

Investigators are looking at a popular website today, finding out more information about a teenager accused of killing Oceanside police officer Dan Bessant. Detectives believe MySpace may hold key information about the teenager, and could even help identify other co-conspirators. (read post…)

BOCA RATON, Fla. — A South Florida professor said that teens are safer on MySpace.com than parents think, television station WPBF reported. (read post…)

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — A new study conducted in part by an educator at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire said that most young people who use the MySpace Web site do so responsibly. (read post…)

Acts confronted with selling their music on the popular website express concerns remarkably similar to the ones music labels have aired for years. In Listening Post. (read post…)

AS a journalist, I would have thought the MySpace phenomenon had “jumped the shark” - or passed its prime - the moment I wanted to host my own page. But Australia’s television, radio and music stars think otherwise. (read post…)

City bringing itself up to code Associated Press Art Fiebing (right), the new code compliance officer in San Marcos, checks on Graciela (left) and Israel Guadarrama, who had been warned about turning their garage into a room. The city found it had the money and decided to expand its compliance efforts. Suspect’s MySpace records searched (read post…)

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A new Web 2.0 site known as Stickam (www.stickam.com) brings together the Web 2.0 features of sites like MySpace, YouTube, and FaceBook, as well as adding a unique twist to the social Web experience. (read post…)

FROM a job in a chip shop to a 1m record deal, Nicky Spence has had a rollercoaster ride to the top, finds SUSAN MANSFIELD (read post…)

AS a journalist, I would have thought the MySpace phenomenon had “jumped the shark” - or passed its prime - the moment I wanted to host my own page. But Australia’s television, radio and music stars think otherwise. (read post…)

Computers will be instant-on, Digg becomes the new Friendster and virtual adultery ends in real-life murder. Here are our predictions for 2007. By Wired News staff. Plus: 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards (read post…)

Teenagers in the 1950s and ’60s went wild over Elvis Presley, much to the consternation of their parents, but kids in the new millennium aren’t so stirred by rock ‘n’ roll’s original rebel. (read post…)

In ‘07, old media will go to greater lengths to assuage Web envy, our reporters predict. Suits and strategies will shift. (read post…)

At Dailystrength.org, patients and caregivers dealing with hundreds of issues, including asthma, celiac disease and depression, can join a support community, start a wellness journal, share advice and recommend doctors, link to news stories and Web sites with disease information, and even send other members a virtual hug. (read post…)

Social networking sites such as MySpace may be ordered to play adverts for the emergency services - including the number 999 - on their pages under plans being considered by the Home Office. (read post…)

DEAR ABBY: I am writing in response to the letter from the computer-illiterate parents whose sons, 12 and 13, are spending hours “locked in their room” with their computer. (read post…)