Archive for January, 2008

Ahhh! A clown.

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

HamptonRoads.com - There's a debate right now about the Facebook application "Scrabulous" and the board game "Scrabble." The Facebook app is blatantly a rip-off. But this article raises some good points on how Hasbro could play the situation to their benefit. We've all >>> Read more ...

Aboriginal college dealt financial blow

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Globe and Mail - outreach strategy PM puts onus on military to explain prisoner policy The new weapons in crime fighting: YouTube and Facebook In a recent letter, Mr. Strahl expressed the hope that the institute's fundraising efforts will ...

Digg joins Microsoft, Facebook in data portability group

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Australian PC World - With Today's announcement that Digg is joining the Data Portability Project , the group added another firm to its roster of technology heavyweights lobbying for standards that would allow users to control content they create on social networks >>> Read more The Independent ...

PermissionTV Redefines Online Video With SmartPlayer(TM)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Forbes - Syndication - enables all capabilities to travel with the video for distribution to other sites, blogs and social networks including MySpace and Facebook "It's all about creating a direct, two-way communication channel between the >>> Read more Forbes - its debut last ...

New ads may track cell phone’s location

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Baltimore Sun - One thing I can guarantee Verizon Wireless will not do is get a bump of short-term advertising dollars while scaring and losing our customers in the process." Businesses would want to avoid the type of backlash that online hangout Facebook recently >>> Read more ...

Ribbit injects phone, voice mail features onto Web

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

ZDNet - Ribbit plans to showcase how users of personalized Web pages from Facebook, Google, MySpace, or Netvibes, as well as business-contact management applications like Salesforce, can take phone calls via their Web pages using Amphibian. As a demonstration >>> Read more Forbes - Social network-applications developers ...

Huddle.net Launches the First Free Facebook Team Workspaces for

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Forbes - PALM DESERT, Calif. and LONDON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- DEMO CONFERENCE, Station #35 -- Huddle.net, the provider of collaborative team workspaces for business and play, announced today the launch of free Facebook virtual team workspaces at the DEMO >>> Read more Sponsored by: ...

Young voters seen - and heard

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

San Francisco Gate - While much has been made of the influence of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, Starkey and other post-college professionals in the Bay Area said they are exploring the candidates the "old-fashioned" way - by reading media coverage >>> Read more ...

Personal DNA analysis reveal everything you wanted (or didn’t want) to

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Georgia Straight - And, in a nod to Facebook, the company has also set up a social networking utility which allows you to compare DNA with perfect strangers and bond over that pesky little genome rs3751812. Of course, with DNA taking the blame nowadays for issues >>> ...

On the trail of trader Kerviel

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

BBC Business - Others have tried to glean information from his page on the social networking site Facebook. Those he had previously listed as friends quickly ran for cover. At the start of the day, Mr Kerviel had 11 so-called Facebook friends listed on his page. By ...