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Christian Science Monitor - Call it a masterstroke of social networking. In January, the band sold out three July concerts which are expected to raise $2.2 million for charities in Zimbabwe in a matter of days. The feat was accomplished simply by offering (read post )

MSN MoneyCentral - Widgets are customized applications that can easily be embedded in and shared among blogs, social networking profiles, and personal web sites. Widgets have been so widely adopted by social media users that Newsweek predicted 2007 to be “The Year of (read post )

WebitPR - sport they play and whatever level they play at. isporty offers its members a unique combination of its own interactive content, the very latest news, videos, photos and podcasts for every sport (365 on the site) and a full set of social networking (read post )

Denver Post - “It’s a primal instict to be around people, and we are bringing that to the Internet.” Kimbal Musk, left with Me.dium founder David Mandell, on their firm’s merging of social networking, Internet searching and website discovery. Avon - Kimbal Musk (read post )

MSNBC - Feb. 21, 2007 - At just 8 years old, Kevin Robson needed to undergo a bone-marrow transplant two states away from his home just outside Chicago. He had the procedure at the Cincinnati Children s Hospital, where he was kept for five months (read post )

Insurance News Net - CA February 6, 2007 HRmarketer.com members have a secure location to network with marketing peers, talk shop about recent campaigns and even review job postings, with the launch of the industry s first online social networking (read post )

Forbes - United Online (nasdaq: UNTD - news - people ) owns the Classmates.com social networking site, as well as the online loyalty marketing site MyPoints.com. The company’s pay services also include voice-over-IP telephony, personal Web (read post )

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel - Clerkin, 26, said the group was not a serious attempt to persuade Hayhurst to run for office, but was an experiment to gauge the effectiveness of a political group on Facebook, a social-networking site best known for connecting college students. The (read post )

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PR Newswire - CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD, BOSTON, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Eons(TM), the 50- plus media company for loving life on the flipside of 50, today offered its top tips for boomers curious about the world of online social networking. Eons aims to help eager (read post )

Baltimore Sun - The effort includes what appear to be Owens’ first public comments about the accusations against him: a plea for support on the social networking site Facebook.com. An organized cadre of academy graduates has also launched a letter-writing and (read post )

Observer - The second axis is user-generated content and social networking. This is the world of blogging, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook. It’s causing palpitations in multi-media conglomerates as their executives wonder What It All Means. Should they (read post )

BusinessWeek - Dom Tolli envisions a day when people will be able to push a few buttons on their cell phone and post a list of their favorite ringtones on their social-network profiles. As vice-president of value added services for Virgin Mobile USA, Tolli wants (read post )

MediaPost - The New Scientist reports on an article in the journal Science calling for Web-based alternatives to traditional disaster call centers, similar to social networking sites MySpace, Wikipedia and YouTube. I can relate, as the most reliable travel (read post )

Chicago Tribune - A bill in the Illinois Senate would banish social networking Web sites like MySpace from public libraries and schools, a unique effort on a state level to thwart online sexual predators. The legislation’s sponsor, Sen. Matt Murphy (R-Palatine), said (read post )

The Washington Times - Illinois lawmakers are being asked to ban access to social networking Web sites like MySpace from computers in public libraries and schools. Aimed at thwarting online sexual predators, a suburban Chicago legislator has introduced a bill in the state (read post )

WebProNews - The bill, which sought to block access to social networking sites in federally-funded schools and libraries, died in the Senate. When Stevens tacked on an amendment to the Telecommunications Act of 1934, with which I’m sure he’s familiar ever since (read post )

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Reuters - Heavy Internet users, especially younger, Web-savvy users of social networking sites or office workers, have long toggled between e-mail and instant messaging services. But for more occasional users of consumer e-mail services, the allure of instant (read post )

AZCentral.com - Arizona needs more tools to keep track of sex offenders in neighborhoods and in cyberspace, a legislative committee decided Wednesday. Sex offenders’ e-mail addresses, social-networking pages and instant-messaging names should be listed in an online (read post )

San Francisco Gate - The decision, which could help establish legal boundaries that will govern the booming social-networking industry, comes as a slew of Web sites, including MySpace and Facebook, entice teens and preteens to hang out with their friends online and (read post )

Playfuls - Relationship experts say social networking is changing the face of Valentine’s Day for U.S. adults. Michelle R. Callahan, a relationship expert and development psychologist for Internet phone service Skype, said technology has changed the way couples (read post )

CNN Money - Cisco Systems’ (CSCO) recent acquisition of a social-networking vendor, called Five Across, which is used by the National Hockey League, underscores this trend of the enterprise becoming socialized as well. Five Across provides self-service social (read post )

MSN MoneyCentral - We’re excited to unveil Trendetta to our millions of online users,” said Sarah Tomassi Lindman, SVP and GM, The N. “Trendetta creatively and seamlessly combines three of our audience’s biggest interests — multiplayer game play, social networking (read post )

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Within the next few years, Web sites like MySpace could become the linchpin of media giant News Corp.’s portfolio, CEO Rupert Murdoch told a standing-room-only crowd at a media conference in New York on Thursday. (read post…)

The popular online hangout MySpace said it will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials. (read post…)

PROVIDENCE News stories about a suspicious truck-driving student, a middle-age man trolling for teenage girls on MySpace.com and police officers and firefighters with incompatible radios have prompted the governor to add seven civilian jobs at the Rhode Island State Police. (read post…)

Jay-Z has created a two-minute video for “Minority Report,” responding to the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Metallica plan to begin recording a new album next month. Bow Wow seeks Valentine love on MySpace. (read post…)

MySpace says it will take a shot at using a system that keeps people from posting copyright materials. (read post…)

Leaders of telecoms, media and technology companies are gathered this week in Barcelona for the mobile industry’s biggest event of the year. (read post…)

Fashion critic Steven Cojocaru loves the Grammy Awards for its fashion missteps. “This is train wreck city,” he said Sunday night. “It allows for very bad fashion. It’s all over the map.” People don’t know whether to dress up or down and it leaves them confused, he said. Cojocaru’s pick for worst dressed Best new-artist nominee Imogen Heap, who was wearing a one-of-a-kind creation by a designer … (read post…)

The tool from Audible Magic scans videos for unique digital fingerprints and then compares them with those in a database. If there’s a match, the videos are blocked from the site. (read post…)

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The agreement with Microsoft will see lottery products made available through social networking website Windows Live Spaces and instant messaging platform Windows Live Messenger . But only if Camelot retains its licence in August. (read post…)

Cisco Systems, whose core business is selling the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks, said it has acquired a small social networking company that allows businesses to create MySpace-like communities on their websites. (read post…)

Buying friends (read post…)

Following in the footsteps of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, www.Linkedin.com appears to be the next widespread social network. (read post…)

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Five Across, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif., a leading vendor in the social networking marketplace. (read post…)

Viewers Select and Organize Videos from the Web’s Most Popular Sites, Socializing Around Shared Interests (read post…)

Cisco Systems Inc., whose core business is selling the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks, said it has acquired a small social networking company that allows businesses to create MySpace-like communities on their Web sites. (read post…)

NEW YORK—-Ckrush Digital Media, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ckrush, Inc. , announced that it completed its previously announced acquisition of the businesses and assets of Trisoft Media, Inc. and AudioStreet, Inc., including the websites http://www.audiostreet.net and http://www.mixstreet.net on February 5, 2007. (read post…)

Comcast, the nations largest cable operator, has partnered with social networking site Facebook to create a new TV series featuring user-generated content. (read post…)

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Kevin Bacon has started SixDegrees.org, a social networking site for charity that trades on the famous game based on the actor’s ubiquity. (read post…)

Lenny Bourdeau spends part of his day cruising social networking sites in his quest to find the perfect candidate. Jo Parente uses Google to research a candidate’s background. Jim McClure helps candidates manage their online reputations so recruiters like Bourdeau and Parente get the best possible impression. (read post…)

SwapThing launches the SwapAffiliates program to help small webs build community through social networking, while earning revenue from swapping. (PRWeb Feb 2, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/chachingpr.php/VGhpci1NYWduLUxvdmUtWmV0YS1NYWduLVplcm8= (read post…)