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Silicon Republic - 24.10.2007 - If you haven t heard the term social casual gaming you ve probably experienced it through social networking site Facebook by playing the addictive Texas Hold Em or Scrabulous applications with your friends. MySpace is (read post )

Hollywood Reporter - All the media companies have done a few interesting things online, but only News Corp., now the world’s most valuable media conglomerate, has delved deep, by way of its $650 million MySpace purchase and other digital initiatives. Diller, CEO of IAC (read post )

BusinessWeek - The valuation for Facebook makes the $580 million News Corp. ( NWS ) paid for MySpace look like an outright bargain. Facebook’s allure certainly wasn’t lost on Google, which also bid for a stake, according to people familiar with the matter. Facebook (read post )

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San Francisco Gate - del.icio.us MySpace, the popular social-networking destination, is opening an office this week in San Francisco and plans to hire as many as 200 employees as it moves to redesign its site, introduce features and fend off rivals such as Facebook. The (read post )

San Francisco Gate - Chris Heuer, a partner with TheConversationGroup, a company that helps others with blogs, social networking and online advertising, prefaced his comments about lobbyconning by saying that discussing the practice is “akin to saying where your favorite (read post )

West Online - Meanwhile, social-networking sites and Internet distribution are making it possible for lesser-known and unsigned bands to boost their profiles and sell CDs. “The game used to be really simple,” Flohr said. “You get your record played on radio, you (read post )

Seattle Post Intelligencer - It’s called “Events” and it works like a better-known program called “Evite.” Users send party invitations to friends and it keeps track of who plans to attend. Users can click links to blog about the event on the “Spaces” social networking site and (read post )

Seattle Times - The picture of Robertson, posted on Key’s Facebook social-networking Web page, shows Robertson making what appears to be an obscene hand gesture. New Orleans Jena 6 figure jailed; questions raised Civil-rights leaders and juvenile-justice experts (read post )

NewsFactor Network - Neighborhoods — which aggregates postings from eBay blogs, guides, and reviews — was the brainchild of an “engagement” subgroup of eBay’s buyer-experience team. Among the 600 new neighborhoods on eBay is “Shoe Heads,” intended as a haven for (read post )

Houston Chronicle - The picture of Robertson, posted on Key’s Facebook social-networking Web page, shows Robertson making what appears to be an obscene hand gesture. Key copied it from a YouTube video in which Robertson scratches his face with the middle finger of his (read post )

Wall Street Journal - that some lawyers say that the creators of Scrabulous, a programming team of two brothers in Kolkata, India, may face possible copyright issues. Scrabulous is spreading through an unusual route for a board game: Facebook, the social-networking site (read post )

Houston Chronicle - White House hopefuls from both parties have pumped up traditional youth outreach efforts with Gen-Y technology, including video-sharing utility YouTube, text messaging and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Democrats appear to (read post )

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ZDNet Blogs - If you weren t convinced that social networking was as much a feature as a product, look no further than eBay neighborhoods . The e-commerce giant has rolled out over 600 niche social networks around different product categories, where (read post )

Daily Telegraph - Brazilians may be best known for a love of football but social networking sites are becoming the country’s newest addiction, according to research. Data from internet tracker Comscore World Metrix show that the average Brazilian user spent 11.7 hours (read post )

This is Preston - Police are investigating a Preston university student who made anti-gay comments on the Internet. Officers at Preston police’s diversity unit are looking into comments Fergus Bowman, 22, made on social networking site Facebook which could lead to a (read post )

Daily Telegraph - A top Google engineer has quit to join Facebook in a sign that the social networking site is fast becoming the hottest property on the internet. Josh Quittner, who broke the story on his blog netly news , said he had been described as one of “[Google (read post )

MSNBC - Facebook is as much a part of campus as finals, iPods and beer the contemporary equivalent of jamming several people into a phone booth is squeezing one’s entire social life onto a series of photo shows, news feeds, invitations, friend requests and (read post )

International Herald Tribune - BUDAPEST : The world’s fourth-largest Internet search engine - a distant fourth, way behind Google, Yahoo and MSN - is a business-to-business provider, selling search services to corporations. But Exalead, based in Paris, now wants to broaden out to (read post )

Detroit Free Press - He is also an officer of a Taurus fan club on the social networking Web site, Facebook.com. He said he loves the Taurus because he likes the feeling of a big, safe car, and his group, “Ford Taurus — The Ultimate Pimpmobile,” has more than 300 members (read post )

dBusinessNews.com - PrepChamps selects Hosted Solutions for Managed Hosting Services Hosted Solutions announces that PrepChamps is launching its social networking Audio Postcard Sheds Light on Home Rehabilitation Raleigh - Wake County’s leading community (read post )

ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 1:34 pm Categories: Enterprise 2.0 , Bookmarking , Tagging , Social Networking , VoIP , IP Telephony , Gartner has just published its list of top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. I guess I m a sucker for stuff (read post )

Channel 4 News - A Conservative Party student leader has been expelled from the party and suspended from his university after making homophobic comments on a social networking website. Fergus Bowman, 22, a second-year politics and religion student at the University (read post )

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MarketingVOX - And more companies will start adding social-networking and user-generated tools onto their intranets, too, he says. Moreover, some retailers have begun using online shopping behavior to determine how to design and stock their bricks-and-mortar stores (read post )

13 WHAM - (Albany, N.Y.) AP — The Internet social networking site Facebook promotes its safety for young teens from sexual predators and promises prompt responses to concerns. But now it’s being warned by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that it may (read post )

Guardian Unlimited - Investors desperate for profit are scouring the internet for the next big thing, many of them spurred on by success stories such as Facebook, the social networking website founded by Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg when he was just 19, and now valued (read post )

US News and World Report - In Wisconsin, officials paid the popular social networking site Facebook $100 to post a flier on the UW-Madison social network. The ad asked users to click on a link for an update on the campus emergency. That took them to the university’s home page (read post )

Media Guardian - Tristan Davies’s Independent on Sunday has grasped the future of online communication - by blocking its staff from accessing Facebook. A wise move - after all, of what use to a bunch of journalists is a social networking site that puts you in (read post )

Computerworld - MIT’s Technology Review publisher interviewed this week Kevin Rose, Tariq Krim and Garrett Camp about the future of Web 2.0 social networking and news aggregation sites, and how they expect to make money. Ultimate ROI Sometimes there’s more to business (read post )

St. Petersburg Times - Body language, online social networking, public relations: All will be covered when the International Association of Business Communicators meets for its regional conference. The conference, open to anyone in the communications field, is Oct. 18 to (read post )

CNN Money - Now PlayFirst has become the first leading casual gaming startup to experiment with a “microtransaction” concept that’s been a hit with kids’ social networking sites like Club Penguin. They’re offering free access to online games but charging a (read post )

PRWeb - social networking entertainment search mobile TESTIMONIALS- “Our public relations firm consistently uses the PRWeb Podcast service for our clients, but I ve not (read post )

dBusinessNews.com - portfolio management product. market2world is a Web 2.0 product launch and social media agency that specializes in blogger relations (BR) to secure online product previews and reviews from bloggers, podcasters, webcasting and social networking sites (read post )