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TG Daily - San Francisco (CA) - Facebook, the number 2 social networking site with 24 million users, is opening up to developers in its Facebook Platform program. The company has announced that it is partnering up with 65 Internet businesses to sell ads and (read post )

Daily Southtown - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has obtained the names of nearly 850 registered sex offenders in the state who use the popular social networking Web site MySpace, after joining with scores of officials across the nation to (read post )

Gainesville Sun - Meanwhile, Nokia’s long-term plans involve video, social networking, games and Internet applications. It’s already teamed up with Yahoo! for instant messaging, e-mail, calendars and other online services. Several years of work are finally paying off (read post )

ZDNet Blogs - Adding music-based social networking to Facebook makes perfect sense, and is something they could have easily done themselves. That s what makes the company s Platform strategy so intriguing. Mike Arrington (over at TechCrunch) also notes the (read post )

New Zealand Herald - The social networking website Bebo is a popular communication method among teens. Teenagers who use the internet to post adverts for wild parties are using tighter security measures to prevent their rages being shut down by police. One tactic is (read post )

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CBS News - The freshman senator’s MySpace page has amassed 160,000 friends since Los Angeles paralegal Joe Anthony created it. The Obama campaign took over the page on the News Corp.-owned social networking site from Anthony earlier this week. Thompson, 64 (read post )

PR Newswire - LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 3 /PRNewswire/ — SpaceGravy.com ( http://www.spacegravy.com/ ), the Internet’s premier destination for MySpace Layouts, MySpace Codes, and MySpace Backgrounds (http://www.myspace.com/ ), today announced the most popularly (read post )

WTOP Radio - Obama Takes MySpace Page From Backer Is MySpace always mine or can it belong to someone else? At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has taken over control of the MySpace page listed under his name on (read post )

Guardian Unlimited - Barack Obama, one of the leading candidates for the Democratic party’s 2008 presidential nomination, has ended up in the middle of a cyber-squabble after wresting control of a fan site from an enthusiastic backer. Joe Anthony, who lives in Los (read post )

Minneapolis Star Tribune - A commissioner in Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s administration could lose his second job - a seat on the Minnesota State Colleges Agent mum on Keyshawn Johnson’s suitors Ohio student faces expulsion after video of punch on MySpace Teacher saves a student (read post )

MSN MoneyCentral - He has done a number of deals, such as buying MySpace and launching the Fox network, that investors disliked initially and came to love over time. With Dow Jones, it is possible he could make even today’s high price today look like a shrewd (read post )