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Teenage girl blogged about her painful road to death

For one year 18 year old Regine Hansen Stokke in Norway blogged about her fight against cancer. Thousands of people followed her blog  up to the day of her death. A longer version of this story can be found in...

Chicks Rule in Social Web

Social Web is currently used to describe how people socialize or interact with each other throughout the World Wide Web. Such people are brought together through a variety of shared interests. There are different...

Burberry Goes into the Social Media Trenches: Art of the Trench

Burberry, the chav staple, is going into the trenches of social media embarking on a new social networking venture called Art of the Trench. The century old brand is getting with the times and unveiling...

Qeep and ZestADZ partner up for mobile advertising

Cologne, Germany / Chennai, India – Thursday, 20th of August 2009 – Qeep, the U.K. and South Africa’s fastest growing mobile gaming and entertainment community has signed and extensive partnership for mobile advertising with ZestADZ– a global mobile ad marketplace...

Criminals Using Facebook for Identity Theft to be Punished

Criminals are moving online in greater numbers looking for easy targets.  Unfortunately, many people using social networking sites likes Facebook and MySpace make it too easy for criminals by freely...

What's the Use of Online Social Networks In Your Life?

Most people nowadays have online social networks. While browsing the net, I saw this diagram of what a social network means to us. But suddenly, my mind asked a burning question..what do you call that region where all of them intersect? "This is the diagram of a normal and...

Tweet This: You are being sued!

Can you defame someone in 140 characters or less?  Apparently so, according to designer Dawn Simorangkir, who has alleged that eccentic rocker Courtney Love has started a smear campaign against her on Twitter...

Are Facebook and Twitter really that bad for us?

"s it me or do we appear to be having a “moral panic” around social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter? Personally I think it the age old adult trait of ” if you don’t understand it…slam it” maybe if we do this enough the youth will get it!"

Facebook Lives Up To Its Name, Recognizes Faces

Everybody's least favorite social network is at it again with more anti-privacy fun and add-on application antics. In today's edition of 'hey-look-it's-me' technology, two 'face' sites have joined forces to identify...

Find "Where's the Party At..." in NYC & SF - Hot Spots Locator

It is common knowledge that in the course of every day, people are engaging in all kinds of activities and around different parts of a city.  From morning until night, people travel to work, while at...

Facebook to Allow Users to Participate in Policies, Terms of Use

After much back and forth (and backlash) regarding the recent launch — and subsequent retraction — of its allegedly restrictive 'new' Terms of Service, social networking giant Facebook announced Thursday that it...

Stop bashing social networks

"First it was privacy concerns (not that they’ve gone away, but they aren’t front page on Google News anymore). Now, apparently, social networks, like every other bit of technology young people embrace, rot our minds. ZDNet’s Andrew Nusca summarized the report out of...

arcalife.com: Just In Time For Recording Holiday Memories

A New Family Community To Store and Share Your Family Experiences arcalife is a new online family community where you can store all of your life's greatest memories, photos, videos, events and moments, while connecting with your family, searching your family genealogy and...

Obama Wiki White House?

Dan Froomkin proposes ideas for how the Obama White House can live up to Obama's pledge to be transparent and responsive to the American people; make whitehouse.gov include staffer blogging about policy issues and what they're working on, enable RSS feeds, twitter and email...

'Facebook to Buy Twitter' Rumours Begin to Fly

We picked this one up from CNET and are simply passing it along: Facebook maybe might possibly one day begin to consider the potential of buying Twitter.So, don't shoot the messenger. Or, in this case, the second...

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