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Desiree Rogers is leaving the Peoples Gas utility for a new job as president of social networking for Allstate Financial, the Northbrook-based insurance firm announced Thursday. In the job, which is new to Allstate, Rogers, 48, will build a social (read post )

“McCain Generation” has been viewed only about 1,000 times on YouTube. (Youtube.com) “Think of the Battle of Bastogne, a central part of the Battle of the Bulge, during World War II,” he says, recalling the overwhelmed Allied forces in 1944 Belgium (read post )

ICANN votes to expand top-level domain names Microsoft releases Hyper-V for download Survey: 8 in 10 businesses now using Macs For Bill Gates, antitrust fight was a personal crucible Yahoo trumpets reorganization June 26, 2008 (IDG News Service) GPS (read post )

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Financial software company Intuit Inc. said Thursday it is slashing about 7 percent of its work force as part of a reorganization. The Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of TurboTax and the personal finance software Quicken (read post )

I’m In Like With You , a social-network-turned-gaming-site that caught a brief flurry of press for its eye-popping design when it launched, has just closed a $1.5 million round of venture funding led by Spark Capital. It’s the first funding the site (read post )

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc.’s long and embarrassing legal tussle with three men who accused founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their social networking concept may soon end, now that a judge has ordered the parties to accept the settlement they (read post )

Facebook can often feel like a giant game of trivia. YouTube can sometimes look like a landfill for sloppy home videos. But from time to time, these giants of social media and online networking can find a higher calling. That’s certainly the case (read post )

THE family of murdered 33-year-old Hervey Bay woman Lisa Keem has made an emotional plea for help and witnesses to track down the killer. They said postings on social networking site Facebook were helping to keep her spirit alive. While Ms Keem’s (read post )

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D on’t tell my boss. I made friends with Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio . Anyone who has taken an introductory journalism class knows it’s a no-no for reporters to be friends with people they write about. But Facebook — like so much of the (read post )

YoMacha! The name may sound a little strange and new to hear, but that is exactly why the portal seems to have picked as a fad among the youth of India. In Social Networking times YoMacha seems to be a fresh breath of Air. It is different in approach (read post )

LinkedIn , the social networking website which helps business contacts and former colleagues keep in touch, has joined the exclusive club of dotcom companies to secure a billion dollar valuation after a fresh round of venture capital funding. The (read post )

LinkedIn, the social networking website that helps business contacts and former colleagues keep in touch, has joined the exclusive club of dotcom companies to secure a billion dollar valuation after a fresh round of venture capital funding. The (read post )

Bon appetit for Cooking.com : The kitchen appliance retailer announced Wednesday that it has pulled in $13 million in venture funding in a round led by Azure Capital Partners. ORIX Venture Finance also contributed venture debt to the round, and Azure (read post )

Last fall, MySpace.com looked like a dance club in need of a new DJ. Its users were spending less time on the social networking site as upstart Facebook Inc. added new ones at a breakneck pace and stole the spotlight with splashy interactive features (read post )

SAN FRANCISCO - Four venture capital firms are betting Internet startup LinkedIn Corp. is worth $1 billion, highlighting the lofty hopes riding on online services that connect people with their friends, family and business associates. The 10-figure (read post )

Vox is another blogging service from Six Apart, but it focuses on multimedia and social-networking features. It’s a great service if you want to keep in touch with a like-minded community, or if you simply want to correspond with a group of friends (read post )

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MYSPACE is planning a global redesign in an attempt to widen its demographics and boost user engagement on the website, the company said. In what it said would be the largest scale relaunch of a website of its size, MySpace intends to change its home (read post )

MySpace plans to begin remodeling its home on the Web Monday, simplifying how users navigate the site and design their personal profiles. “This is a pretty big overhaul for us,” said Steve Pearman, MySpace’s senior vice president of product strategy (read post )

News Corp. s MySpace is attempting to climb out from behind its current state of clutter with a redesign, which will officially debut next Wednesday. The makeover includes improvements on both the front-end and back-end, highlighting more intuitive (read post )

THE internet now plays a central role in US politics, with nearly half of all Americans using the web and other new media to follow the presidential campaign, a study shows. About 17 per cent of adults - one in six - said they daily scoured political (read post )

A major overhaul of MySpace, to make its debut on Wednesday, could greatly alter the social-networking market. The redesign internally dubbed MySpace 2.0 is the handiwork of a six-month, companywide project to widen its appeal to non-tech (read post )

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UK etiquette experts, Debrett’s, have created a new set of rules for how to behave on social networks. The rules were created after research by telecoms company Orange found that 62 percent of social networking users are confused or frustrated by (read post )

One of the problems with a lot of Catholic parishes is that there is a strong emphasis on communal worship, but not a very strong emphasis on simple Christian fellowship. ParishNetwork, a new social networking site, hopes to change that. The free (read post )

A major overhaul of MySpace, to make its debut on Wednesday, could greatly alter the social-networking market. The redesign internally dubbed MySpace 2.0 is the handiwork of a six-month, companywide project to widen its appeal to non-tech (read post )

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It’s been 28 years since Clark checked in a suitcase when he was traveling on a plane. That was 1979. Clark doesn’t like the process of watching the carousel go ’round and ’round and hoping to see your bag. He was recently on a flight where the (read post )

(AP) Teenagers are increasingly snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones, officials say, with the photos often falling into the wrong hands. Sometimes the photos end up in everyone’s hands, via the Internet. “It used to be that kids (read post )

Almost eight in 10 internet users who are members of social networking sites would change the personal information they have put online if they believed it might later be used in the mainstream media, according to research. The research for the Press (read post )

Qloud’s My Music Brings Music from an Endless Library to the World’s Largest Social Network WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire/ — Qloud, (http://www.qloud.com), the revolutionary ad-supported music service that delivers users online music from an (read post )

It is the video camera for which you need no instruction manual: the ultimate point-and-shoot, YouTube-friendly, plug-in-and-upload mini-masterpiece that has taken America by storm and it is on its way to Britain. No more clunky cameras, dodgy (read post )

HARTFORD, Conn. - Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to (read post )

SKOKIE A judge set bail at $2 million on Wednesday for a South Elgin man charged with the sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy he met through the MySpace Web site. At the Skokie Courthouse, Fahad Khan, 31, of 235 Courtland Drive, was ordered held (read post )

Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to their boyfriends (read post )

NEW YORK - In the latest effort to placate restless investors, Yahoo Inc. president Sue Decker laid out plans Wednesday for building the company’s online advertising operations, and Yahoo announced a slew of new partnerships. The push is aimed at (read post )

MERCADES NICHOLS AND HER MOTHER, CHRISTINA GARCIA, listen as lawyer James. M. Holz talks to the media after a hearing Tuesday in Bartow. Circuit Judge Keith Spoto relaxed certain pretrial release conditions, allowing Nichols to get a job and attend (read post )