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MediaPost - SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES LIKE MYSPACE are the ideal platform for marketers to facilitate word-of-mouth campaigns, according to a new study released by Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions and research firm MetrixLab. Social networkers–always after (read post )

WebitPR - London, April 25th 2007 As of today, brands wishing to target the lucrative 14 24 year old market across Europe can do so by advertising on Netlog, Europe s fastest growing social network. Netlog operates a number of local-language social (read post )

Digital Game Developer - In-Call Entertainment” products to users around the globe. By recently porting its next generation audio entertainment to the web and directly to consumers, Razz has also rapidly gained traction as a leading Web2.0 player within the social networking (read post )

Greensboro News & Record - The move comes a week after the NCAA’s management council recommended the ban, which also eliminates communications through other electronic means such as video phones, video conferencing and message boards on social networking Web sites. The Student (read post )

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CNN - BARCELONA, Spain (CNN) — The technology executives and analysts here in Barcelona this week are trying to figure out how take all the content found on the Web and migrate it to your mobile device. There are a number of hurdles though. Most of what (read post )

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New York Times - Twitter, which was created by a 10-person start-up in San Francisco called Obvious, is a heady mixture of messaging; social networking of the sort associated with Web sites like MySpace; the terse, jittery personal revelations of microblogging (read post )

Canada East - Chief among them are GodTube.com, a video-sharing site for Christians, and MyChurch.org, a social networking realm. The explosion of niche social networking sites that divvy up your personality into various identities has extended into religion with (read post )

Nashua Telegraph - Social networking sites have become virtual hangouts for young people whose online profiles reveal intimate details. Not only do digital technologies put adult content at children s fingertips, they also allow predators to browse for kids (read post )

Forbes - LinkedIn is similar to its social-networking brethren in that people are invited into networks. But unlike social-networking sites, LinkedIn isn’t the place for posting drunken pictures from spring break or listing favorite movies or your hometown (read post )

FOX News - NEW YORK Teens generally don’t think twice about including their first names and photos on their personal online profiles, but most refrain from using full names or making their profiles fully public, a new survey finds. The Pew Internet and (read post )

San Francisco Gate - The Virginia Tech story offered the most vivid example yet of how traditional news sources, like cable news networks, and new-media sources, like the social networking site Facebook, are jointly creating a mosaic of news coverage. Yet the Cho (read post )

Boston Herald - In the wake of the bloody shooting spree, reporters around the country have been combing through victims profiles on social networking sites, including Facebook and MySpace [ website ] , and sending messages to victims friends to solicit interviews (read post )

Red Herring - In an effort to translate positive psychic energy into positive cash flow, the chief executive of organic foods powerhouse Whole Foods Market has invested in Zaadz.com, a new-age social-networking site. The size of the investment by Whole Foods (read post )

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TechNewsWorld - Social networking giant MySpace has announced plans to hold a virtual “primary” where users may vote for their favorite candidate. The event will occur before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, and will tie in with programs encouraging (read post )

Sun-Journal - BANGOR (AP) - A soldier who left behind a young daughter in Maine said his greatest fear was “not coming home to his little girl.” Army Spc. Christopher Wilson, 24, made the remark on the social networking Web site MySpace.com before being killed (read post )

ZDNet Blogs - Mozilla Labs says it’s working on building social networking technology into its browsers. Think MySpace meets Firefox. For the effort, called “The Coop,” Mozilla says it will “let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share (read post )

CNET News - Although the MySpace votes won’t count for the official election, results compiled from the News Corp. social-networking site’s millions of members may help candidates gauge their potential success in real voting booths next year. They also may (read post )

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The high-traffic social-networking site has yet to generate much ad revenue, but News Corp. has plans to change that (read post…)

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Many of us in the VC community have been quietly wondering about the state of Web 2.0 innovation. We aren’t seeing much. Startup activity remains strong, but the consumer web landscape seems to be populated with the same bodies with different skins. Another video deal here; another social networking deal there, and social [feature] everywhere. The apogee of this Web 2.0 hit me on Friday when I … (read post…)

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire/ — United Online, Inc. (read post…)

IBM researchers demonstrate several collaborative communications tools from their labs. (read post…)

‘Enterprise 2.0′ must overcome concerns about security and ROI to gain a foothold in business. (read post…)

NEW YORK Even highly experienced marketers can be daunted by the current menu of new media options. The glossary of industry terms alone is a hefty course of alphabet soup. There are blogs, vlogs, podcasts, V-casts, WAP sites and RSS feeds. (read post…)

The buzz is back. A broad-based recovery is under way within the local technology community, Massachusetts high-tech and scientific industry experts report, with more staff hirings and capital investing… (read post…)