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MySpace has plenty of flirts but seeks more profit - International Herald Tribune

Monday, June 16th, 2008

NEW YORK : When News Corp. added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 16 million users kept growing - and each user kept adding friends, sharing photos and swapping flirty messages - the advertising dollars >>> Read more ...

MySpace getting a facelift in effort to turn popularity into wealth - International Herald Tribune

Monday, June 16th, 2008

NEW YORK : When News Corp. added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 20 million users kept growing - and kept each interested by adding friends, sharing photos and swapping flirty messages - the >>> Read more SWIM ...

MySpace will redesign, streamline its site - San Francisco Gate

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

del.icio.us MySpace plans to begin remodeling its home on the Web Monday, simplifying how users navigate the site and design their personal profiles. "This is a pretty big overhaul for us," said Steve Pearman, MySpace's senior vice president of >>> Read more Facebook fanatics who have covered ...

Manners still matter when you’re poking on Facebook - Reuters

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Have no fear. Britain's etiquette bible has come to the rescue for social networkers who are at a loss about how to behave with online decorum. Debrett's have helped to compile a new set of "golden rules" for devotees of sites like Facebook and Bebo >>> Read ...

Tropicana Facebook support - Weston Mercury

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

AN ONLINE group has been set up for people lending their support to plans for a new Tropicana building in Weston. It is currently listed on Facebook, a social networking site, and has more than 600 members. Henry Boot Developments plans to build a >>> Read more ...

Internet Companies Aid Child Porn Fight - CBS News

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

What to say to your child about Web porn and online predators, and how to look for signs of porn on your PC. Plus: warning signs that an adult may be communicating with your child. (AP) Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed with New York ...

YouTube usurper to unleash the teenage paparazzi - Silicon Republic

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

10.06.2008 - A new video broadcasting service that enables anyone with a mobile phone or PC to became a live broadcaster is planning a monetisation strategy that could see teenagers everywhere armed with mobile phones emerge as the new paparazzi >>> Read more Email article Share Add ...

Jobs Apple as premier platform mantra to accelerate - ZDNet Blogs

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver another sermon to the Mac faithful at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), but amid all the pyrotechnics about the iPhone, App Store and third party software goodies keep in mind the big picture: There s a >>> Read more ...

Jobs Apple as premier platform mantra to accelerate - ZDNet Blogs

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver another sermon to the Mac faithful at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), but amid all the pyrotechnics about the iPhone, App Store and third party software goodies keep in mind the big picture: There s a >>> Read more ...

Facebook asks, ‘How do you like this ad?’ - Beta News

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Innumerable Web sites have been inviting readers to rate and comment about articles and blogs for ages already. Now, Facebook has added a considerably rarer function: Users can give "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to ads. Judging from a particularly >>> Read more The financial sector, eager ...