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A term widely used as pejorative slang for a young person of low social status is being reclaimed by the community that spawned it. “Chav”, which comes from the old Romany word for youth, is the inspiration behind the name of an award-winning social (read post )

The body, made up of industry representatives, would be responsible for drawing up guidelines that social networking sites, the blogosphere, website owners and search engines would be expected to follow. The recommendation is one of several that the (read post )

NEW YORK - Facebook Inc., owner of the biggest US social-networking site, said the developers of Scrabulous stopped offering the word game in the United States and Canada after a lawsuit by Hasbro Inc. , the maker of Scrabble. Facebook members who (read post )

Austin Apartment Owners and Managers Reach Potential Renters on the Social Networking Site YourFindit! Atlanta, GA 7/30/2008 04:00 AM GMT (TransWorldNews) (read post )

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f83047/the_role_of_evolvi) has announced the addition of the “The Role of Evolving Technologies: Accelerating Collaboration and Knowledge” report to their offering. Is social computing (read post )

Microsoft Corp. said its search service will be added to social networking site Facebook Inc. this fall. Earlier this year Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) paid $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook (read post )

Hasbro, the toy company that owns the rights to Scrabble in the United States, is suing the makers of a Facebook version of the popular word game. Software designers Rajant and Jayant Agarwalla created an application for the Facebook social (read post )

– Members are able to email directly from the address book (Netkot will send a copy of your email to your default email address.) — Access and make a call phone from the address book — Event Planner/Calendar/Diary - displays next five upcoming (read post )

Social networking site Facebook could be forced to remove the popular online game Scrabulous from its site after the owners of Scrabble took legal action. The world’s second biggest toy manufacturer, Hasbro, which owns the game in North America, is (read post )

Resize SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web, even while (read post )

These days, many workers spend their down time at work adding to their contact lists on LinkedIn or posting photos of their latest vacations on Facebook. Some local businesses are reacting by drafting social networking guidelines in an effort to (read post )

The upcoming MySpace Music service may ultimately be run by another major online music store, say alleged sources for TechCrunch . The social networking site is described as most likely picking Amazon MP3 to handle the commerce behind the store but (read post )

NEW YORK (AP) _ Install a little photo program to show off pictures of your dog on Facebook, and you might find you’re really spreading an ad. Time Warner Inc.’s AOL said Wednesday it was integrating technology from its newly acquired Goowy Media Inc (read post )

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Albums by Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets and Adele have all been nominated for this year’s Nationwide Mercury Prize. Also up for a gong are Elbow, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Neon Neon, the alter ego of Super Furry Animals frontman (read post )

MySpace will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again. The move comes after the network decided in May to let its estimated 115 million users (read post )

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a (read post )

This week I m venturing into the genre that never ends, indie/alternative rock. There seems to be so many bands that fall under this category, and it makes it hard to choose just two. But some how I pulled through, and the lucky winners are Orange (read post )

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POPE Benedict XVI has revealed he will use his visit to Australia for World Youth Day to apologise for sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The Pope told reporters aboard his plane en route to Sydney last night : “We have to consider what was (read post )

With the App Store for iPhone scheduled to role out later today, a newspaper report confirms the rumored official MySpace client is true. Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace, told USA Today that the new native app makes accessing and updating MySpace a lot (read post )

It looks like the Krofft brothers Sid and Marty will soon be on MySpace . The 70’s icons will soon be putting their programming on MySpaceTV. This will include their classic shows such as H.R. Pufnstuf , The Bugaloos and Land of the Lost and will be (read post )

MySpace, the world s most popular social network, today announced a highly integrated, new MySpace Mobile experience customized and available via the Apple App Store. The free MySpace mobile application for the iPhone empowers users to seamlessly (read post )

One of the problems with social networking sites is that they tend to be ugly. Not just a little bit ugly. Seriously ugly. MySpace has upgraded its UI, but it’s still noisy, long (you have to scroll way down on some pages to get where you want to go (read post )

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 )

Trine Engebretsen dreamed about meeting the family of Amanda DeLapp — the organ donor who saved her life. She didn’t know it then, but her donor’s family had the same dream. The strangers cried and laughed together for hours Friday afternoon when (read post )

MySpace, the big social network that is vying with Facebook for top-dog status globally, has released a mobile version of its site designed especially for the iPhone. MySpace has also released new statistics revealing explosive growth among its (read post )