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RSS myspace socialMySpace gets on board OpenID
News News Corp's MySpace social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again. The move comes after the network decided in May to let its... [23 Jul 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. According to the study, social networks build beneficial technological, creative and... [23 Jun 2008]
LinkedIn hits billion-dollar valuation
News The site currently has 23 million members, small compared with Facebook or MySpace. LinkedIn is more profitable than most of the social-networking fray. Business-networking site LinkedIn announced on Tuesday evening it had netted $53m in a Series D... [18 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]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment Musician Billy Bragg, who has already fought a campaign against MySpace on the pages of UK newspapers, recently wrote in The New York Times bemoaning the financial return for artists from user-generated sites. [22 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News However, modifying the URL runs a script which attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in various applications, including AOL, Microsoft Internet Explorer, MySpace and RealNetworks RealPlayer. It is also interesting to note the move from simply using... [07 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. Retailers need to wake up to the potential of social networks... [02 May 2008]
Tech Futures: The talkification of the web
Comment One-touch calling from your MySpace page is already available, and Facebook developers have integrated voice application features for community users that want to post calls for friends to track. The new platform has generated e-commerce and social... [01 May 2008]
Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web
News Bebo is fifth in the ranking, while MySpace is eighth. The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK. The top two searches on the operator's mobile internet service - which launched last summer - are social... [01 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]
