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Social networking: Global phenomenon

News News Corp's MySpace, still the biggest social network in the US, is not doing quite as well internationally. MySpace, with its focus more on media consumption rather than communication, has launched several dozen localised editions of the site... [13 Aug 2008]

Businesses ignoring social networking potential?

News However, work in this area is still immature and in the meantime companies should be aware of what is happening in the world of consumer social networking and implement appropriate usage policies for employees' use of services such as Facebook and... [10 Jul 2008]

Get a Lively life, with Google avatars

News Users can also embed their Lively area into a blog or, using Google widgets, on MySpace and Facebook social networking sites. Google has unveiled an online 3D social arena called Lively, the internet giant's take on Second Life. [09 Jul 2008]

Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace

News New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed long-time rival MySpace in worldwide unique visitors for the first time. [24 Jun 2008]

Facebook is "educational", says US uni

News Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher from the University's College of... [23 Jun 2008]

Vodafone chief's departure is a sign of the times

Comment He told MWC: "We must as an industry learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience entertainment such as music downloads, mobile TV, user-generated content such as YouTube and social networking... [29 May 2008]

Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told

News Gartner's tips for retailers wanting to get in on the social network action include looking beyond the big names of Facebook and MySpace due to the huge amount of activity in the area. Analyst house Gartner says social networking sites are starting... [02 May 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The social websites are the big target now - MySpace, Facebook.People are less careful and more likely to click on a link or download something. Social networking sites as infection hotbeds Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer... [15 Apr 2008]

Call to increase online data protection for teens

News The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)- plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission this week to establish rules that will help protect teens from data collection and... [10 Apr 2008]

Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation

News and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on... [26 Mar 2008]

Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation

News Marks, a veteran of blog search start-up Technorati, now works on the search giant's OpenSocial initiative, which is working toward a universal standard for social networking standards and is slated to launch on MySpace.com and Hi5 as well as... [03 Mar 2008]

Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown

News In contrast MySpace has seen a nine per cent fall in the number of unique visitors year on year with around five million users. And Bebo is now hot on the heels of MySpace for second spot in the UK, enjoying a 53 per cent increase in users to 4.1... [22 Feb 2008]

Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat

News In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, Sarin said: "We must as an industry learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience entertainment such as music... [12 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up The CIOs questioned expressed a preference for LinkedIn and Plaxo which are, of course, very useful for networking but nowhere near as popular as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, mainly because they're full of IT people talking about work. [18 Jan 2008]

Social networking "white elephant" warning

News Issues that businesses need to consider before investing developing internal social networking tools include protecting personal intellectual property and people's preference for using existing non-professional external networks such as Bebo... [13 Dec 2007]

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