Social Media Aggregator Flux Releases New Platform Aimed At Expanding Services Beyond MTVN

Social media aggregator Flux.com is releasing two products today designed to let web publishers move their content seamlessly among community sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and more.
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Social Media Aggregator Flux Releases New Platform Aimed Expanding Services Beyond MTVN

Social media aggregator Flux.com is releasing two products today designed to let web publishers move their content seamlessly among community sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and more.
From: biz.yahoo.com

Drupal Content Management Platform Has Been Chosen By Ulitzer

Ulitzer.com, which will be launched in 2008, with 5,500 authors and more than 550,000 original articles, is looking for enterprise software architect(s), programmer(s), and Web app developer(s). The site will offer original content in more than 2,000 topics ranging from AJAX to Zebra. Ulitzer claims that by 2010, three out of 10 books on any subject will be published at Ulitzer.com, and Time ...
From: linux.sys-con.com

Facebook Dims the Beacon Spotlight

The social network gives in to complaints, granting users greater control over a system that shares information about Web activity
From: www.businessweek.com

Top 10 User-Generated Sites: Thumbs Up or Down?

Imagine you?re in a meeting with a high-powered venture capitalist. The kind of guy who just gleams money. If only you could convince him to invest in your Web property, you?d be on your way to Tahiti, there to sip Pina Coladas and count your cash as delightful sea breezes wash in.
From: itmanagement.earthweb.com

Report: Live Spaces Has Most Downtime

Pingdom tracked 12 top social networking sites from October 19 to November 19, and found that Microsoft?s Live Spaces had the most downtime, with the site failing to respond for a total of three hours over the course of the month. By contrast, that?s more than Facebook (10 minutes), MySpace (10), Bebo (30), LiveJournal (40) and Orkut (85) combined, and worst on the list. Number one was ...
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Google opens up

King of search subscribes to the belief that the Web is becoming more social, and therefore must be open
From: www.theglobeandmail.com

Pluck Pairs Big Media With Social Networking

Major news and broadcast companies have found a new way to plant their flag in the social networking world.
From: redir.internet.com

Pluck hooks up media companies, social networks

NEW YORK - Online media syndication company Pluck says it will give traditional media companies the ability to link their websites to online social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
From: www.nzherald.co.nz

7 Blog Promotion Techniques

A reader asked me a question that I found quite intriguing, ? How do I get people to find my blog posts? ? There are a number of ways that people can come across you and your blog posts. Here are just a few. Search Engines - Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask are constantly looking for new content to crawl and rank. Ensure your site is search friendly and submit an XML sitemap for faster ...
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Network Earth, Inc. Forms Social Gears, LLC to Develop Social Networking Applications for the OpenSocial and Facebook ...

The announcement is made as the company unveils its initial Facebook application, FirstLookz and releases a beta version of Salons.com. (PRWeb Nov 28, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/TG92ZS1JbnNlLVpldGEtSG9yci1UaGlyLVplcm8=
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Pluck hooking up media outlets with social networks

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online media syndication company Pluck Corp said on Wednesday it would give traditional media companies the ability to link their Web sites to online social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
From: nz.news.yahoo.com

Is Facebook Overrated?

Whether you realize it or not, social networking is something you do every day.
From: www.time.com

30 Executive Hot Jobs in 2008 Defined by the Subprime Showdown, Social Community, The New Big Three, BRIC-Based PE, ...

NEW YORK----CTPartners, the performance-driven executive search firm, today released its 13th annual list of hot executive jobs. The 30 hot jobs making the 2008 CTPartners list are categorized according to the driving forces that will change markets, corporate direction and investment strategies in the coming year.
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Privacy Backlash Hits Social Networking

Aggressive advertising, unwanted friends, and employer-snooping into social networking profiles may dull the edge of being on sites like Facebook and MySpace. One-time online darlings in social networking have begun to feel the dizzying dehydration of the morning after a really great party. Pushback from several quarters may leave the typical past college age person questioning the sanity ...
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Widgets make a big splash on the Net

For nearly a decade, GarageBand.com was the quintessential struggling Web company, barely hanging on as it burned through $17 million. Until widgets.
From: www.usatoday.com

Levinsohn: Fox Interactive To Broaden Its MySpace Ad Network Across News Corp., Other Companies

Fox Interactive Media is expanding its MySpace online advertising network to include other News Corp. media properties and to handle ad serving for other companies as well, FIM President Peter Levinsohn told the *Reuters* Media Summit in New York.
From: biz.yahoo.com

THEREFORE I AM: Since when is privacy old-fashioned?

There are, essentially, only two people reading this column right now. The first person is reading the printed version, and no one in the world, except maybe someone looking over his shoulder, knows what he?s reading.
From: www.crossville-chronicle.com

Ulitzer Is Looking to Hire the Best Enterprise Software Architect Alive!

Ulitzer.com, which will be launched in 2008, with 5,500 authors and more than 550,000 original articles, is looking for enterprise software architects, programmers, and Web app developers. The site will offer original content in more than 2,000 topics which varies from AJAX to Zebra. Ulitzer claims that by 2010, three out of 10 books on any subject will be published at Ulitzer.com, and Time ...
From: www.sys-con.com

South Africa: Milestone for Country Internet

News24.com, the breaking news and information service in the 24.com network of sites, has recorded more than one million unique South African visitors in a month - the first South Africa website to do so.
From: allafrica.com

Social networking . . . all in a good cause

As the big three battle it out, MySpace is handing over a platform to charities. So whatever next? Jemima Kiss reports
From: www.guardian.co.uk

Advertisers not winning on Facebook

Media groups and marketers have so far struggled to convert the soaring popularity of Social networking sites into revenue.
From: www.iol.co.za

MySpace Hypertargeting vs Facebook Beacon: Which one is creepier?

Leave my data alone please.
From: www.cnet.com

Social networking sites drive advertising changes

A hunt for Britains top university is helping mobile firm O2 tap Facebooks burgeoning audience and reflects the innovation advertisers need to tap the potential of such sites analysts said on Friday
From: www.christiantoday.com

Google U.S. Web search share jumps

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc enjoyed one of its biggest monthly gains in U.S. Web search market share in October, building on consistent gains over the past two years, according to industry data out on Wednesday.
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Google gives new gene mapping service a bit of spit and polish

Nick Carr: Just in time for Christmas, the Silicon Valley startup 23andMe - the name refers to the number of pairs of chromosomes in human DNA - has begun offering a personal genotyping service
From: www.guardian.co.uk

Google U.S. Web search share jumps to 58.5 pct

Google Inc enjoyed one of its biggest monthly gains in U.S. Web search market share in October, building on consistent gains over the past two years, according to industry data out on Wednesday.
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Facebook Unveils Ad Targeting Program

NEW YORK (AP) -- The online hangout Facebook said Tuesday it plans to help companies target their advertisements on the site based on what site users and their friends buy and do on the Internet.
From: www.columbian.com

Plaxo Gives Thanks For OpenSocial

Google?s OpenSocial has been both laughed at and fawned over as people have debated if it has any value.  The discussion will, by and large, continue, but the people at Plaxo have already decided that OpenSocial is extremely good. In an entry on Plaxo?s blog , Vice President of Marketing John McCrea presents a graph and writes, ?Of particular note: the inflection point in the curve ...
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8 Great Paid Search Engines Beyond Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN

We have all heard of, and commonly utilize, Yahoo Search Marketing, Google AdWords, Ask.com Sponsored Listings, and MSN adCenter and most search marketers are generally happy with their proven results. Although these powerful search marketing solutions are robust and drive millions of searches and clicks per day, there are many other paid search engines that [...]
From: www.searchenginejournal.com

NEWS- Search and destroy: Scottie Griffin battles online rep

It appears former Charlottesville School superintendent Scottie Griffin has been Googling her name, as have her potential employers, only to be reminded of something she might rather forget.
From: www.readthehook.com

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PC Magazine - Should Google or Yahoo leverage millions of Web mail users into a social network, either could challenge Facebook, MySpace and IBM.
From: www.addict3d.org

Facebook keeps busy adding cool tools

Consider your old college friends, your cousins in California and those cool people who moved last year.
From: www.dallasnews.com

A Social Networking River Runs Through Web Mail

Should Google or Yahoo leverage millions of Web mail users into a social network, either could challenge Facebook, MySpace and IBM.
From: www.eweek.com

Safely Harnessing User Content

Lawyers and marketers are increasingly trying to enlist Internet users in campaigns to advertise their products and services in online communities, blogs and e-mail. Attorney Alan L. Friel examines the risk of harnessing user-generated content and identifies safe harbors of operation within the law.
From: www.law.com

Lost in cyberspace: a world without Google

The first time I ever heard the wheezing rasp of a modem, typed the letters "www" and ventured online was back in 1994. The dotcom revolution was still inconceivable ? in fact, the first search engine had only just been invented ? but the internet still seemed to herald such rich promise.
From: news.independent.co.uk

Lisa Wehr & One Up Web

After 10 years spent in the Alaskan wilderness with sled dog teams, Lisa Wehr could take anything that huskies, surly mushers, and white-out blizzards could dish out. She?d laugh about her near-misses with death and give it right back to the guys racing against her on the trail.
From: www.northernexpress.com

Online Social Network Spam: Growing Trend?

Online social networks are one of the blessings of Web 2. . Plenty of people use them to stay in touch with their friends meet new people make work-related connections and more. Unfortunately it seems like you can t have something good on the Internet without someone coming along to abuse it and that s as true of online social networks as anything.... Enter to Win a Dell XPS Ultra-Portable ...
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Facebook Spinoff: Hungry Machine Gets in on Feeding Frenzy

By Tom Lee, Bisnow on Business. Facebook is hot, of course, but there?s another reason besides all those user eyeballs: Unlike predessors like MySpace and Friendster, it?s built a platform that lets third parties create integrated applications. When they unveiled the opportunity to build Facebook apps earlier this summer, tens of thousands of developers responded and an exploding new industry ...
From: it.moldova.org

Facebook Offers $85m for Zhanzuo

Have you noticed how whenever we discuss Friendster these days, we can?t help point out that most of its traffic comes from Asia ? Just about everyone mentions this in a negative kind of way?as if the audience isn?t valuable. Well, there must be some value in the Asian market because Facebook reportedly offered $85 million to buy it?s largest Chinese peer, Zhanzuo.com . According ...
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Change.org Launches Community of Branded Social Networks for Nonprofits

Change.org, the leading platform for social change on the web, today announced the launch of a new community of branded social networks for nonprofits which aims to transform the way organizations fundraise and communicate with their supporters.
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19 Nov, 2007, 0549 hrs IST, REUTERS

NEW YORK: Hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, AOL founder Steve Case and former rap star MC Hammer are each backing a version of the latest media trend: building fans? music consumption into their social networks.
From: economictimes.indiatimes.com

SMS and IM replacing emails

Teenagers abandon formal systems as rapid-fire instant messaging makes its mark.
From: www.telegraph.co.uk

Transcript: Arun Sarin, Vodafone chief executive

Edited transcript of FT interview with Arun Sarin, Vodafone chief executive, by Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson, FT media editor, and Andrew Parker, FT telecoms editor
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Social networkers reach out more with cell phones

Bree Warner frequents MySpace to connect with old friends, make new ones and drum up jobs.
From: www.tennessean.com

Heads are turning to Facebook

The social website started by a Harvard dropout is stealing the spotlight from Google. Google Inc. is used to being the center of attention, the giant that executives at other Internet companies wish Silicon Valley would shut up about already.
From: www.latimes.com

Confessions on Myspace

Police officer Lt. Charles Cohen poses by a squad car in Indianapolis. The Indiana law enforcement officer teaches classes designed to help cops who are not Internet specialists become better at using online sources in working cases.
From: www.tulsaworld.com

Cops mine Web for case clues

Police officer Lt. Charles Cohen poses by a squad car in Indianapolis. The Indiana law enforcement officer teaches classes designed to help cops who are not Internet specialists become better at using online sources in working cases.
From: www.tulsaworld.com

The Facebook betrayal - users revolt over advertising sell-out

It used to be a great way to swap student party drinking stories. Office workers embraced it as a chance for a quick escape from the daily drudgery ? until their bosses banned it. And 50-something parents marvelled at a virtual window on what their children were up to. That is the appeal of Facebook, which in little more than a year has exploded from an elite student-only club into a global ...
From: news.independent.co.uk

Why Facebook was worth the bet for Microsoft

Why Facebook was worth the bet for Microsoft
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Facebook targets ads to users? behaviors

NEW YORK (AP) ? The online hangout Facebook said Tuesday it plans to help companies target their advertisements on the site based on what its users and their friends buy and do on the Internet.
From: www.dailylocal.com

? Analysts Say Google?s OpenSocial Could Invite Trouble

Online social networks are tangled in a fierce battle to determine who can be the friendliest. Facebook welcomed developers last May to build applications for the site in exchange for revenue.
From: www.turks.us

And Its Users) Not Getting Any Younger

I tend to blink a few times upon receiving a handwritten letter, but there?s an increasing realization that really young people - and I?m only in my 20s - might have the same reaction to an email. With social networks like Facebook and MySpace providing messaging options, youngsters have been given one alternative; in the UK , it seems they?ve already taken advantage of it. Various ...
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MySpace SelfServe Ads to Challenge Google AdSense & Facebook Flyers

Taking a page from their search partner Google and main competitor in Facebook, MySpace plans to launch their own ?do-it-yourself? contextual targeting & advertising platform : MySpace SelfServe Ads. MySpace is now letting its current advertisers test their contextual and group targeting system, which lets advertisers target direct groups and sub-groups, with targeting broken down to [...]
From: www.searchenginejournal.com

Search Could Be Winning Play for Facebook in Battle with Google

Facebook has added a new option for its search bar, allowing users to search for advertising pages. This continues a steady creep in search options, which already includes tabs to search for people, groups, events and applications.
From: www.localtechwire.com