Archive for October, 2007

NU vegetarian fare wins PETA’s praise

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Chicago Tribune - He said PETA chose the schools based on comments students made through the social networking Web sites MySpace and Facebook, as well as e-mails sent to the organization. PETA also looked over university menus. Berry, the sophomore eating pasta on >>> Read more Forbes ...

Google faces up to Facebook

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The Inquirer - MUCH EXCITEMENT in California where it has been announced that Google is building its own answer to the Web 2.0 dream machine that is Facebook. Regular readers, and some irregular ones too, will recall that last week s Microsoft stake in the firm ...

ReliefInsite Launches First Patient Health Record on Facebook(R

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

PR Newswire - ALBANY, N.Y., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ReliefInsite ( http://www.reliefinsite.com ) today unveiled a new release of the ReliefInsite pain management diary built on Facebook Platform, a new way for companies and developers to integrate with the >>> Read more Daily Telegraph - The Royal ...

Cell phones add tracking capability

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Two new questions arise, courtesy of the latest advancement in cell phone technology: Do you want your friends, family or Vikings will look for QB for next year Stephen Colbert clobbers rivals on Facebook C.J.: Puck didn't stop almost anywhere at Walker ...

Campus massacre: Turning to technology

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

eSchool Online - April 19, 2007 Almost immediately after the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech University on April 16, Virginia Tech students created an "I'm OK" page on Facebook to let one another and their loved ones know that they survived. Other students posted >>> ...

Is Facebook really worth $15 Billion?

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

ZDNet Blogs - After last night s announcement that Microsoft had beat rival Google to become a minority investor in Facebook, and with it secure a long term ad partnership, the question on everyone s mind this morning: is Facebook really worth 15 billion ...

Microsoft befriends Facebook with stake that values social networking

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Times Online - Only in the relaxed world of social networking could a deal valuing a company at $15 billion ( 7.3 billion) be revealed so casually. Eschewing formal announcements, Facebook informed the world that Microsoft would buy a 1.6 per cent stake when its >>> ...

Presidential candidates you’ve never heard of.

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Slate - For instance, you can see what percentage of Fred08.com visitors also checked out Daily Kos (5 percent), Facebook (19 percent), or the Fox News site (24 percent). (See other comparisons here .) The study's most interesting results deal with the social >>> Read more MSN ...

Facebook extends mobile reach with BlackBerry version

Friday, October 26th, 2007

San Francisco Gate - del.icio.us Not only does it have a real bank account now, with Microsoft's infusion of $240 million, but it's wooing older customers. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, speaking at a cell phone convention in San Francisco Wednesday morning >>> Read more Sponsored ...

Windows and Halo boost Microsoft

Friday, October 26th, 2007

BBC Business - ahead the firm raised its forecast for the financial year to $58.8bn in sales from a previous estimate of between $56.8bn and $57.8bn. The results come the same day that Microsoft announced it had paid $240m ( 117m) to buy a 1.6% stake ...