Facebook leads police to Scottish gang members

Police in Scotland have arrested five people after tracking pictures of weapon play on Facebook and other internet sites. " FOUR men and a child have been arrested after police saw pictures of weapons being wielded...

Kirstie Foster Did Not Die in Front of Her Computer Headmaster Reveals

The headmaster of Ellesmere College, where tragic 15 year-old Kirstie Foster was a £16,500 per year student, Brendan Wignall, has revealed that the girl was not sitting in front of her PC when she was...

Is twitter a serious business tool or just a complete waste of time?

Like many people reading this item, I first came across Twitter when reading a story about web 2.0 and the "Facebook phenomenon". Twitter is normally mentioned in the same sentence as these other websites - but is...

Stealth Pool Parties: Run SIlent, Run Deep

Pool parties organized online and held in strangers' pools. ... Whoah. I've used Google Earth to find optimal parking spots downtown (just look for bikes in the aerial photos), but this is next-level.As a teen,...

Facebook to help find missing children

Facebook and Bebo is now being used to trace missing children such as Madeline McCann, as her parents are the first to back the idea."The charity Missing People has set up an application for Facebook users...

Lonelygirl15 Creators Launch 'Social Entertainment' Company

After successfully pushing the online entertainment envelope with Lonelygirl15 and the Bebo-branded KateModern, I'm very curious to see what new ideas will emerge from the folks at Eqal.They've got a great...

More children joining social networking sites

A study in the UK has shown that more children than ever before are nowa member on at least one social networking site. That means that morethan a quarter of eight to eleven year-olds have a profile on a...

Struggling AOL Acquires Bebo

Apparently, there's still value in the mostly ad-supported Internet business of social networking.Yesterday AOL announces a plan to acquire Bebo, the third-biggest social networking site in the United States, for $850 million in cash. It's reported that: "AOL has spent close...

AOL to buy Bebo for just under 1 billion

"NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give...

AOL Buys Bebo for $850 Million

Paying close to a billion dollars cash, wounded Internet giant AOL (itself owned by Time Warner) has bought Bebo, a popular social networking site.This deal bears out the theory that social networking sites' value...

SAI 25 Update: Now Analyzing Our Finalists...And We Need Your Help!

We made the list (so far):"2008 SAI 25 Finalists (Partial List, Alphabetical Order*) 4INFO56.comAdconiumAdifyAngelsoftAssociated ContentBeboBetfairClickableCTS MediaEfficient FrontierEtsyFederated MediaGlamHuffington PostiPart.cnKickAppsKooXooLiba.comLinkExpertsLive...

Facebook loses 400K UK users

After nearly a year and a half[ of steady growth in the UK, Facebook is experiencing a slump: 400,000 fewer unique users accessed the site in January than in December of last year."Facebook has suffered its first...

Has Bebo Been Bought for $1 Billion?

TechCrunch is spreading some big buck tech gossip by suggesting that the social network site Bebo.com has been (or is about to be) acquired for a cool billion dollars."Following up to our post last week talking...

Social Networks Losing Steam

The big three social networking sites (Facebook, Bebo, and Myspace) are seeing their pageviews decline. Between a fickle user base and  high-profile security problems, more and more users are either not...

12 years of social networks - who was first?

Word "Social network" was first introduced by J. A. Barnes in 1954. Which one was first social network on the web?

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