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PR Inside - 2007-08-23 21:05:16 - With social networking sites becoming house hold names, uVme is expected to take the social networking world by storm. Sveinn Johannsson recently announced the launch of his new uVme site www.online-game-of-skill.com . The site (read post )

CNN Money - NEW YORK (Fortune) — As MySpace hooks up with MTV (whose parent Viacom once tried to buy it) and Facebook makes the cover of Newsweek , it’s clear that social networking is only getting hotter. (But couldn’t Newsweek find Mark Zuckerberg anecdotes (read post )

ZDNet Blogs - From the what did you expect department, the Wall Street Journal reports on Facebook developing a targeted ad system, similar to what Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are doing to generate higher pricing and tens of billions in revenue. The new service (read post )

Worldnews.com - Half of employers restrict Facebook CNET Half of businesses are restricting employees’ access to social-networking site Facebook, due to concerns about productivity and security. According to research by security company Sophos, 43 percent of workers (read post )

Des Moines Register - Barta was asked during a news conference if he would consider banning student-athletes from social networking sites such as Facebook.com or myspace.com. Kent State tried it but it didn’t stick. At Minnesota Duluth, it has. So far. Barta hedged. It’s a (read post )

Egypt Today - Launched in 2004 to students of a limited group of US-based colleges, Facebook is a social networking site where members create profiles that are visible only to other members; they can then form networks of friends, create groups open to people with (read post )

Seattle Times - download a small program that hooks into iTunes and other music software, analyzing your collection and figuring out which artists would fit. As at Pandora, you can approve or ban a track from your station. Both sites incorporate some social networking (read post )

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PC World - Please Wait Just over two weeks after buying media sharing site Twango Inc., Nokia Corp. launched a closed beta of a new mobile social networking site. Mosh , short for Mobile Sharing, lets anyone upload and share video, images, ringtones, games (read post )

Silicon Valley - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Universal Music Group said Wednesday it has acquired a stake in the operator of urban social networking Web site Loud.com . The deal is part of the music company’s strategy to gain new sources of revenue and media outlets for its (read post )

CNET News - Hey, so, I’m going to tell you about a party for a new social networking site that was hosted by a big-time blogger. But I’m not talking about the Twittering, lifecasting, Flickring kind of scene think bottle service, trendy rap music, and a guy (read post )

Daily Telegraph - Eating disorder charities have called on social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook to restrict online groups that promote anorexia as a “lifestyle choice”. Pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia sites feature photographs of emaciated women and (read post )

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CNET News - First it was Friendster , then it was MySpace ; now Facebook seems to be the center of every other conversation on the Internet. Several of the writers at Poynter Online (a resource that puports to be “Everything you need to be a better journalist (read post )

iMedia Connection - Napster creator Shawn Fanning is at the forefront of digital music distribution once again. This time his company, SNOCAP, has linked up with social network sites such as MySpace in order to distribute music to fans within similar demographics (read post )

Newsday - News Corp. owns the Fox broadcast network, Fox News Channel, the Twentieth Century Fox movie and TV studio and has a one-third stake in satellite provider DirecTV. The company also owns the New York Post and the online social hangout site MySpace. (read post )

ZDNet.be Blogs - comScore published its latest numbers on global social network growth. MySpace.com continues to be the giant, with more than 114 million unique visitors in June. Facebook had a 270-percent increase in unique visitors from June 2006, with more than 52 (read post )

BizReport.com - For social marketing, geographic targeting may be the most important factor, according to reports. Traffic to social networks increased exponentially year over year, with giant MySpace attracted 72% more surfers, Facebook jumping 220% and Bebo seeing (read post )

Worldnews.com - Computer security wizards are gathering to share insights about threats ranging from cyber warfare to hacking Apple iPhones or MySpace website profile pages. Briefings that begin Wednesday at the 11th annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas include (read post )

Forbes - Internet content management software publisher Solid Oak Software announced today the release of a free Social Networking Blocker. The new product is called CYBERsitter Social Networking Blocker and is designed for blocking access to the popular (read post )

International Herald Tribune - Australia that he inherited from his father, a prominent journalist, Murdoch built News Corp. into a global media conglomerate with newspapers in England, Australia and the United States; the Fox television and entertainment businesses; the MySpace (read post )

The Ledger - For those who don’t know, I got my deal off MySpace.com. I wrote to J.R. Rotem. He is big producer. He’s done a lot of stuff for Rihanna, 50 Cent, Britney Spears and etc. I saw his MySpace (page). I thought, “Yo, this guy is really talented I (read post )