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Brigham Young News - There’s at least one thing that can strike terror into the hearts of 30 million college-aged users: Facebook being forced to shut down. The ever-popular social utility site is being sued by ConnectU, a rival-networking site, for alleged intellectual (read post )

Guardian Unlimited - It started as a tool for a small number of friends who spent a lot of time on the road, but now Dopplr is billing itself as a full social networking site for frequent travellers. The service lets you keep track of your friends and colleagues and find (read post )

CNN Money - The Korean social networking giant is quickly expanding its dominance in the online media market. Consider that Cyworld now has more video uploads than YouTube and sells songs at a rate that’s second only to iTunes. Getting Americans to adapt Cymania (read post )

Miami Herald - Since Thursday, more than 1,500 teens have joined a virtual assemblage devoted to Gomez’s case on Facebook.com, a social networking site. Their cause has been featured on local news stations and has become a popular topic on blogs and MySpace pages (read post )

Worldnews.com - PORTLAND , Ore. (, ) - Nike Inc. says it has helped runners log more than 22 million miles with its Nike+ system in the past year. But more importantly, the company has gotten them to sit down in front of the computer too. Nike launched Nike+ last (read post )

Daily Telegraph - Networking website Facebook is supposed to improve your social life. But it emerged that “Facebooking” can also seriously damage your career. London has more Facebook users than any other city More than two thirds of employers are banning or (read post )

Inside Bay Area - Jackie Haas (left), director of admissions for STIRR, talks to Ted Cohn (right), president of Talktiva, as Ben Davenport, an angel investor from the Seraph Group, checks out a Talktiva demonstration at a STIRR social networking event. The party held (read post )

VNUnet - Mobikade , popular among Japan’s urban youth, enables friends to provide each other with a constant stream of where-I-am and what-I’m-doing pseudo-news via a website accessible from their mobiles. Every action earns participants points, which can be (read post )

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Forbes - HELIO LLC announced today the launch of an enriched version of MySpace on Helio that delivers the fastest and most robust mobile MySpace experience on the market. Designed from the ground up by Helio and available exclusively on Helio’s newest device (read post )

Pensacola News Journal - Content culled from social network Web sites MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and the like is turning into evidence in criminal trials nationwide. Jurors are getting a peek into the uninhibited and uncensored thoughts of criminals, witnesses and (read post )

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Scholastic ordered Photobucket, which provides file-sharing services and has an office in Palo Alto, and Milpitas-based Gaia Online, a social networking site used mostly by teenagers and college students, to remove the material. The company would not (read post )

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Chicago Tribune - Just as we Google former boyfriends or girlfriends, colleagues and even ourselves, employers are no exception. In fact, a number of surveys are showing an increase in employers and recruiters using search engines and scouring social networking sites (read post )

Baltimore Sun - NEW YORK // This past spring, 10-year-old Adam Young joined other tweens on Club Penguin, playing games, throwing virtual snowballs and chatting with fellow kids who appear onscreen as plump cartoon penguins. A few weeks later, Adam asked Mom to pay (read post )

CNN - Terror Free Tomorrow found 80 percent of Iranians support full inspections and a guarantee not to develop nuclear racy photos 2 Brrrr . Man swims North Pole 3 Ice cream stick ship sets sail 4 Interview with David Beckham 5 Online social networking (read post )

iMedia Connection - NBC, CBS, ABC Family and MTV have begun marketing experiments using Twitter, a social-networking site that allows users to send brief updates to groups of people simultaneously using text, IM and email. While Twitter may not be as popular as MySpace (read post )