War on Reason Quote of the Day

"First in a Series of Quotable Attacks on Upcoming Ben Stein MovieToday’s quote comes from a blogger responding to a suggested link to Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed."Ben Stein lost any...

R.E.M. Releases New Album on Facebook App

So if I like the album does that mean I have to post my comments to Michael Stipe's SuperWall?"REM have become the first well-known rock band to release a new album on a social networking site.Fans can now listen...

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...

Student Faces Expulsion over Facebook Study Group

I have to side with the undergrads on this one: study groups have been around for as long as there have been universities, and using Facebook for this purpose should be applauded, not punished. It would only...

Google Founder Lands In Forbes Richest List

Meet the world's youngest billionaire: 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg launched the social-networking site from his Harvard dorm room in 2004, . Now it's worth a whopping $1.5 billion,...

TMZ, MySpace To Unveil Web Channel

MySpace and TMZ are set to launch a branded channel Wednesday on the social networking site's TV page. TMZ will contribute two or three clips per week to MySpace TV.

Web 2.0 Announces it is Now Possible to Own a Day

International Date Registry today announced the launch of MyDayRegistry.com, a new web 2.0 interactive website and unique gift service. People now have a place to share the most important days of their lives with family and friends that is truly unique Paso...

MySpace Adding a Warning Splash Page to External Links

Back in July, MySpace started converting external links on profiles and comments to first re-direct to an “msplinks.com” address in an effort to presumably cut down on spam and provide the social networking...

More social networking?

There's been a release of a new social networking site by smashlab called MakeFive. What makes it different from the rest? Instead of connecting with existing friends, the site encourages you to make new ones...

Anti-social networking: e-hate your friends

Better wedding story than meeting on Facebook: "How did you two meet?""Hatebook. I would have had no idea Tom even knew I existed if it weren't for that site. But magically, the hate was mutual and here we...

2007: the Year of Facebook

This is essentially a case study highlighting a Facebook success story--successful in that thousands of people quickly mobilized around an issue and had their voices heard.Note the use of the NowPublicism...

Commentary: Doing an About Face(book)

"I had signed up for Facebook some time ago in preparation for a privacy presentation I gave at the University of Georgia's New Media Institute (NMI). I had pretty much forgotten about it until someone in the Lotus Software community found it. Soon, my friends list was...

Second Life set their sights on Korean Market

Second Life has set its eyes on entering the hyper-competitive Korean market.  A new wave of social network services have set their targets  in Korea, including:  Second Life, Myspace, Youtube,...

MySpace Teams Up With Google On Sharing Interactive Applications

Internet social networking leader MySpace is joining Google''s platform for sharing applications across the Web, in a concept that threatens to undermine the rapid growth of their common rival, Facebook Inc.

DatersBlueBook site goes live

DatersBlueBook.com launched it's site officially today giving users a humorous rating scale on the person you are dating.  You fill out a short survey and it outputs a widget that you can place in your blog, MySpace or other webpages. They also have two more quizzes...

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