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Adweek - NEW YORK Social networking. Video sharing. Music downloads. Celebrity gossip. The hottest trends on the Web owe much to the indomitable sites on our third annual AdweekMedia Digital Hot List. Among the millions of purveyors of online content, these (read post )

MSNBC - Sites like prosper.com and circlelending.com have done $85.5 million and $200 million in loans, respectively. Lendingclub.com integrated with social-networking site facebook.com early in the summer and says it arranged $500,000 in loans in its first (read post )

ZDNet Australia - Unpatched PCs running Internet Explorer could fall victim to adware when visiting social networking site Facebook. Security researcher Roger Thompson got a surprise the other night when he borrowed a computer to view a friend’s Facebook blog (read post )

Wall Street Journal - Yahoo Inc. has begun testing a new service called Mash, making another foray into social networking as new Chief Executive Jerry Yang tries to finetune the Internet company’s strategy. Social networking has been one of the hottest areas of the Web in (read post )

Philadelphia Inquirer - CHICAGO - As spy gear goes, a social-networking Web site doesn’t have quite the same cachet as James Bond high-tech gadgets. But the U.S. intelligence community is taking a page from popular online hangouts like Facebook and News Corp.’s MySpace to (read post )

Cape Cod Today - Welcome to CapeCodToday’s Blog Chowder! This page aggregates the most recent postings from all the CapeCodToday bloggers for your convenience. Bookmark this page or see below left for RSS options. Senator Ted Kennedy and Gov. Mitt Romney are among (read post )

Intelligent Enterprise - Enterprise 2.0 was launched three years ago as “the Collaborative Technologies Conference,” so it’s no surprise that blogs, wikis, text messaging, presence awareness and all things social networking received a lot of attention. In fact, show manager (read post )

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Silicon Valley - Like teenagers realizing their racy MySpace Web sites are being read by prospective employers, Eisenberg learned all too well that as much as she might have felt she was writing to a small group of friends, her reach went much farther and the (read post )

National Ledger - She is also pictured in another fun little compromising position in the “MySpace’ type photos. Again - none of these reach the depths of most of the Hollywood brats but as they add up it certainly gets interesting to see what Vanessa’s next move (read post )

TechWorld - The system s success has been credited with helping the social networking service overtake and pass early leader MySpace.com. For software vendors or companies with existing Web applications, Kelman said that much of the code can slide (read post )

SOHH - www.myspace.com/tongadude. Read my blog & comment on them. Spread the word Peace Co-Sign! Friday, 09-14-2007 @ 3:25pm (read post )

TG Daily - Tired of watching skateboarding dogs and exploding diet cola bottles? MySpace.com, in a race to keep users from sampling such consumer-generated videos on YouTube and other sites, is going Hollywood. The online social network owned by News Corp. has (read post )

Arkansas Times - Like colors, their MySpace page says). After a long stretch of inactivity, the Reds reemerge to celebrate the release of their album, Economy of Motion, from Max Recordings. It s a charming debut with hints of Cars-y new-wave and bubblegum (read post )

New Zealand Herald - While some expressed outrage, many fans pledged support on her MySpace page and some lashed out at her critics. “Quit moaning and if you have any kind of decent filtering on the computer, kids aren’t going to see it,” wrote one poster on a media blog (read post )

CNBC - We can’t get enough of Facebook and MySpace. And sometimes, we take the news too seriously. That is, until you hear the latest from country super star Brad Paisley, hitching his wagon to the social networking gravy train, with a song and video called (read post )

KUSA-TV - Mercado’s friends say Marble had threatened Mercado’s teenage daughter via MySpace. Marble’s friends reject that suggestion but acknowledge the two were “aware” of each other. Mercado, who is considered a suspect but has not been arrested in (read post )

SignOn San Diego - The local emo band might not be the most popular name on the bill, but check its MySpace page: Pierce the Veil has tons of (cute) merch and is touring in America and England. The Real SeanJon (8:15 p.m.): The music-savvy combination of Nickel Creek’s (read post )

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ZDNet Blogs - In recent days, I ve received a half dozen invitations to join Quechup (it gets no linkage because it deserves none), which is billed as the social networking platform sweeping the globe. Turns out it the service is more like a cancer than a (read post )

Forbes - LAS VEGAS, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ — BOOMj.com, Inc. (TM), is a Web-based lifestyle portal serving Baby Boomers and Generation Jones, providing an integrated and highly focused community which incorporates personalized social networking, online (read post )

ABC News - With carpooling in a steady decline despite the highest gas prices ever and record traffic congestion, two new online firms want to revive ride-sharing by piggybacking on social networking sites. The startup services, through the popular Facebook.com (read post )

IT-Analysis.com - Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. The huge rise in the popularity of social networking is having a little stutter, as new sites find difficulties in attracting a critical mass of users, and more established sites find that moves to create a (read post )

CNET News - In particular, Moore said, there could be an opportunity for Electronic Arts to set up a global news and social-networking service for sports fans. “As a sports fan, for the information I have to collate every morning, I have to go to 8 to 10 to 13 (read post )

Worldnews.com - Lecterns are so 2004. In the latest chapter of new Web-empowered debates and interaction with presidential candidates, social networking site MySpace and MTV will bring together 2008 hopefuls and young voters (AP) Lecterns are so 2004. In the (read post )

Record Searchlight - Until recently, I had never been to MySpace or Facebook. Even though I’m not yet 30, I had the feeling that I had missed that trend, that I was just a year or two behind the curve. But when I read in Business Week that the number of people 35 and (read post )

Forbes - DALLAS, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ — GodTube.com, one of the world’s fastest growing video sharing sites, today announced Jason Martell as its new Chief Technology Officer. As former Senior Developer for TagWorld, the second largest social networking (read post )

Globe and Mail - A social networking site seems like a strange place to find people whose identities are protected by law. But a number of men and women who have survived sexual assault are turning to Facebook, making their names and photographs public as a means to (read post )

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Guardian Unlimited - Throughout the week, friends and acquaintances have organized candlelight vigils, delivered meals and posted prayers on Nathan’s MySpace page, hoping to ease their pain at losing a son all recalled as a lighthearted spirit. “The military tries to (read post )

MSNBC - When Jennifer signed up for Facebook, she never expected to stalk her college boyfriend, Chris. Jennifer, a 23-year-old teacher, had just moved to Philadelphia for her first job. Chris, meanwhile, stayed behind in Los Angeles for his last year at (read post )

CNET News - Federal agents obtained a court order on June 12 to send spyware called CIPAV to a MySpace account suspected of being used by the bomb threat hoaxster. Once implanted, the software was designed to report back to the FBI with the Internet Protocol (read post )

Miami Herald - (AP) — A teen who posted a nude photo of his younger ex-girlfriend on her MySpace page was sentenced to 30 days in jail. Anthony D. Rich, 19, pleaded no contest Tuesday to child abuse and attempted child abuse. He is expected to begin his sentence (read post )

St. Petersburg Times - Facebook or MySpace? Facebook. I think MySpace pages are childish. What is your pre-game routine? I usually listen to music. I have different tastes than most people. I like the Sugar Oaks, John Lennon Is there a certain type? Indie, folk and (read post )

CNET News - A company like Fotolog or MySpace or Facebook remains cool and coveted until somebody else flips a switch and turns it into yesterday’s hot story. That’s been the case forever in high tech. Digital Equipment put a major hurt on the mainframe makers (read post )

Post Chronicle - Rocker-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie will help re-launch MySpace Film Channel with footage from his upcoming horror movie, “Halloween,” before its U.S. release. Exclusive content available through the Zombie “Halloween” profile on MySpace Film includes (read post )

Red Herring - With its investment in the venture capital firm backing MySpace China, global ad holding company WPP has bought its way into two hot growth areas social networking and the Chinese Internet market. London-based WPP has taken a stake in Beijing-based (read post )