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Lawriter, LLC a subsidiary of Collexis Holdings Inc. CLXS announced today the development of the first professional social network exclusively for law students. The site www.CasemakerX.com was showcased in Beta format at the American Association of (read post )

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Social networking has apparently gone to the dogs. Doggyspace.com brings together dog owners from all over the world, allowing them to create profiles, and share photos and videos of their pups. The Virginia-based site is 1 of a (read post )

One firm is betting on virtual cupcakes and Tamagotchi-like digital pets. Viximo, an 11-month-old Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up, has created four iPhone applications that revolve around digital goods–digitally produced images that people buy (read post )

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A brand new homegrown social networking website, Enzed Live, is on a mission to bring together the people of New Zealand. Anjileen Daji, a 17 year old kiwi from Auckland, and creator of www.enzed-live.com says: “I wanted a place where New Zealanders (read post )

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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 )

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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 )