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From the desktop to the mobile, even to the Nintendo Wii, Opera Software’s free networking site offers its users several points of access. The recently updated My Opera community site has a reach that goes straight for the youthful audience that social networking sites crave. Opera Software distributes browsers for several desktop OS platforms, as well as browsers for the mobile phone and … (read post…)

From Terry Heatons PoMo blog comes word that MySpace the 800-pound gorilla of social networking will soon be launching a Digg-style news aggregation service of some kind. Is that a good thing Its certainly interesting, and I would expect Digg to be worried about the prospect. Whether its actually something worthwhile depends on how it is handled. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch raises … (read post…)

Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday that it had acquired software and workers from social networking technology company Utah Street Networks Inc., its second investment in the growing business of user-generated content. (read post…)

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By Dave Tompkins LEXINGTON - Social networking, a new term for online personal sites like MySpace and Facebook, is unfamiliar to most people, but Lexington school Superintendent Brent McArdle is committed to educating parents, students and teachers to its dangers. (read post…)

A pair of hackers, accused of trying to extort $150,000 from the world’s largest social networking site MySpace, have cut a deal with prosecutors and will avoid jail time. Suffolk County New York residents Shaun Harrison and Saverio Mondelli are accused of selling code that tracked MySpace users’ IP and email addresses. The pair now will get three years of probation which is quite a bit better … (read post…)

Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution. (read post…)

(PR) OC’s The Appearance is the band to watch in 2007. The biggest MySpace sensation since the Arctic Monkeys or Lily Allen. Over 160,000 plays on MySpace.com - Almost 45,000 friends and already asked to perform on Playboy TV! (read post…)

MySpace is giving a big boost to British fashion retailers, with the proportion of their traffic driven from the social networking site growing fast in the last year. Referrals from MySpace accounted for 5% of visits to Topshop.co.uk - far less than searches from either MSN or Yahoo!, according to Hitwise data. (read post…)

Young adults flocked to online journal MySpace.com to express their initial hope that Cody Holp would survive the bus crash and later share their sadness that the accident took his life. (read post…)

This young generation is really plugged into trends online and off. Helio first connected young trendsetters to MySpace, and is now adding a few more choices to the Helio WAP deck. Helio’s new slider-phone, dubbed The Heat, promises to bring Boing Boing, Digg, Metroblogging, and Wikipedia to the phone’s WAP deck for easy access. I personally think they should’ve added Yahoo! Tech into the … (read post…)

Fox Interactive Media now has the tools in place to start relying less on third-party ad placement systems and more on what they can sell based on the data they have, like all of those MySpace profiles just hanging around the social networking site. It’s a capitalist truism, and the fuel of many a dream, that ownership profits the entrepreneur far more than letting someone else make all the … (read post…)

NY Youths Make Plea Deal in MySpace Case, Extortion Charges Dropped (read post…)

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CNN - takeover targets include online video site Metacafe Inc. and Photobucket Inc., which has emerged as one of the Internet’s busiest destinations by hosting personal videos and photos that are routinely linked to top social-networking sites like MySpace (read post )

CNN Money - Is it the next MySpace? Funding: $1.5 million (Ron Conway, Mitch Kapor, Josh Kopelman, Brad O’Neill, Ram Shriram) Headquarters: San Francisco Employees: 12 Founded: 2001 Business model: Advertising, subscriptions Bragging rights: Cash flow positive Next up: New (read post )

Times of Oman - Random House is also introducing a tool allowing users to add material from titles to personal pages on social networks such as MySpace or to a retailer’s Web site. Random House is a unit of German media giant Bertelsmann AG. HarperCollins Publishers (read post )

NPR News - And, they say, young people’s self-regard is fueled by current technologies such as MySpace and YouTube. Study psychologists worry the trend, attributable to the influences of schools, media and parents, could be harmful to personal relationships and (read post )

Silicon Valley - Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outside the walls of social networking leaders MySpace.com and Facebook.com. Andreessen’s vehicle this time around is Ning Inc., a Palo Alto-based (read post )

CNN - LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution. Two counts of (read post )