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Second Life Finds Gaining Residents as Simple as Redesigning Home Page
Written by Rick Turoczy / December 23, 2008 10:27 PM / 7 Comments
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Sometimes, no matter how compelling your service, it all comes down to the basics. When the buzz begins to die down, you have to resort to compelling content to sell Continue reading »


Even More IM at Meebo: Facebook and MySpace IM Added
Written by Rick Turoczy / December 23, 2008 1:02 AM / 7 Comments
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Meebo, the leading Web-based IM service, has reached its current level of popularity by providing Web access to popular IM interfaces like AOL, MSN, and GTalk. Meanwhile, in parallel, there Continue reading »


XING Acquires Socialmedian
Written by Rick Turoczy / December 19, 2008 1:00 AM / 5 Comments
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Socialmedian, a social news site designed to allow users to group around news networks, has been acquired by the German social network XING, a major international player with more than Continue reading »


Facebook Growth Explodes, Site Reaches 140 Million Active Users
Written by Sarah Perez / December 18, 2008 5:51 AM / 13 Comments
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If there's any doubt that Facebook is rapidly becoming the next big thing in social networks, you only need look at their recent statistics. According to new reports, in recent Continue reading »


Forty Million Americans Now Contribute to Social Networking Sites: Who Are They?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 11, 2008 1:45 PM / 3 Comments
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According to a new report from Netpop Research, 76% of all U.S. broadband users actively contribute to social media sites in one form or another, and 29% contribute regularly to Continue reading »


Facebook Shuts Down "Pro-Genocide" Group
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 11, 2008 10:50 AM / 44 Comments
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A fast-growing new group of Facebook users from Bosnia called on Facebook to shut down another group on the site that celebrates the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Continue reading »


Smiling in Your Social Network Photos? You Probably Have More Friends
Written by Sarah Perez / December 11, 2008 8:11 AM / 3 Comments
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Researchers Nicholas Christakis and James Folwer recently published a paper in the British Medical Journal where they examined how a person's happiness is related to the happiness of their friends Continue reading »


MySpaceID: MySpace Sides with the Open Stack
Written by Rick Turoczy / December 8, 2008 10:50 PM / 1 Comments
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A few months ago, MySpace began to reveal details about its answer to Facebook Connect - MySpace Data Availability. At the time, we were left to guess what the offering Continue reading »


The Distributed Social Networking Puzzle: Putting The Pieces Together
Written by Richard MacManus / December 3, 2008 2:25 PM / 19 Comments
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Distributed social networking - where users can connect their profile, friends and other data across multiple sites - is still a relatively new concept and not fully developed. There are Continue reading »


Dopplr City Pages Offer Interesting View of Techie Travel Patterns
Written by Rick Turoczy / December 3, 2008 1:00 AM / 2 Comments
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With the relative freedom provided by laptops, mobile devices, and more affordable transportation, people have become more migratory and, yet, better at remaining connected - or at the very least, Continue reading »


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