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Nielsen: MySpace, Club Penguin growth static, LinkedIn soaring (20 May 09:30) |
| Music-focused social networks Imeem and Buzznet are also growing fast, Nielsen finds, and Facebook continues to grow, but not as quickly as one might expect. |
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Exploring the music industry's other alternatives (20 May 08:33) |
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Exploring the music industry's other alternatives -- Don Reisinger has some ideas for the music industry. Do you have others?
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OMG! InterActiveCorp buys teen fashion site (20 May 08:19) |
| IAC's latest purchase of GirlSense shows its faith in burgeoning teen market, signals that media conglomerate's snap-'em-up strategy may be back on track. |
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Outside.in raises $3 million, hires new CEO (20 May 06:54) |
| Former About.com general manager Mark Josephson is now in charge of the local news and community start-up. |
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Web monitoring for ads? It may be illegal (20 May 01:40) |
| NebuAd and other companies have been offering broadband providers a way to monitor customers and display relevant ads. But the legality of it is anything but settled. |
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Court: Don't blame MySpace for offline sexual assault (20 May 01:18) |
| When a 14-year-old girl was assaulted by a man she met on the social network, her mother filed suit against MySpace. No can do, an appeals court ruled--especially since the girl had delibera... |
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Bebo president: We're not just for kids anymore (19 May 11:18) |
| Now that the social network's acquisition by AOL has gone through, it's time to focus on expanding to new regions and new demographics, says Joanna Shields. |
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Intel Itanium to go quad-core in early 2009 (19 May 11:18) |
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Intel Itanium to go quad-core in early 2009 -- Alliance to promote use of Itanium says quad-core version of chip will come out in early 2009, d... |
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Joost: New hires, lots of video, still no Web-based version (19 May 07:05) |
| Hype has long since died down for the well-funded video start-up, but Joost wants you to know that it's still alive and kicking. |
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Joost: New hires, lots of programming, still no Web-based version (19 May 07:05) |
| The hype has long since died down for the well-funded video start-up, but it wants you to know that it's still alive and kicking. |
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Vodafone acquires contact management service ZYB (17 May 01:28) |
| The European mobile phone giant plans to integrate the Plaxo-like ZYB, which it acquired for $48.7 million, into its Internet service offerings. |
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Why Sega should release a new console (16 May 09:57) |
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Why Sega should release a new console--In an environment where we're seeing a significant push towards consolidation, the company really only h... |
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Charter's Web monitoring draws intervention from Capitol Hill (16 May 09:36) |
| Two members of Congress ask Charter Communications to "not move forward" with its plans to track customers' Web browsing and display relevant advertisements.
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Yahoo teams up with ad powerhouse WPP Group (16 May 06:39) |
| Three of WPP's subsidiaries will have access to Yahoo ad inventory and will connect to its Right Media exchange platform. |
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RIAA defendant Jammie Thomas may get new trial (16 May 06:11) |
| Federal judge who presided over first RIAA peer-to-peer trial says he may grant new trial because of possibly flawed jury instruction.
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Hey Facebook: No beer pong for you (16 May 01:42) |
| Now-corporate social network reportedly pulls plug on a New York office beer pong tournament against InterActiveCorp's CollegeHumor for "legal and PR" reasons. |
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Q&A with Charter exec over Web monitoring to show advertisements (16 May 01:00) |
| News.com talks with Ted Schremp, a senior VP at the third-largest U.S. broadband provider, who says there's a lot of 'misinformation' about his company's plans to monitor customers so approp... |
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Your Web activity, logged and loaded (16 May 01:00) |
| Charter exec Ted Schremp talks about the ISP's plan to "model" your online interests for ad purposes and also protect your privacy. |
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Q&A with Charter VP: Your Web activity, logged and loaded (16 May 01:00) |
| Charter exec Ted Schremp talks about the ISP's plan to "model" your online interests for ad purposes and also protect your privacy. |
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Facebook suspends participation in Google's Friend Connect (16 May 12:43) |
| Citing a terms-of-service violation and concerns about user privacy, social network opts to pull out of the data portability project until further developments are in place. |
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Bubble 2.0 Watch: Aggregation site Brijit shuts down (15 May 10:35) |
| Apparently, a destination site for 100-word abstracts of news stories wasn't a viable business plan. The site closes its doors after running "out of money." |
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Alienware says that game PCs need more than faster chips (15 May 09:39) |
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Alienware says that game PCs need more than faster chips--Fast silicon is hitting a wall in game PCs, according to the Dell unit, which is look... |
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Google Maps lets loose a Flash-y API (15 May 06:58) |
| Flash developers can now include Google Maps data in their applications, thanks to a new application program interface. |
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Report: Digg walked away from $100 million offer from Al Gore (15 May 01:12) |
| Executives Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson took issue with the level of control that they'd have over their social news site if it were acquired, writer Sarah Lacy says in her new book. |
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BlackBerry 9000 will get iTunes sync (14 May 09:01) |
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BlackBerry 9000 will get iTunes sync--Research In Motion officially announced the BlackBerry 9000, its best answer yet to the iPhone. But music... |
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Zoho now accepts Google and Yahoo logins (14 May 08:53) |
| The online productivity suite has synched up with two of the biggest names in Web 2.0 user accounts--even though Google operates rival Google Docs. |
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Kluster launches social-news site (14 May 08:25) |
| Giving users a cut of the Knewsroom ad revenue is an interesting new take on social news, but Kluster is a small site without the eyes to pull in that revenue. |
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Kluster.com launches social news site as part of 'restructuring' (14 May 08:25) |
| Giving users a cut of the ad revenue is an interesting new take on social news, but Kluster is a small site without the eyes to pull in that revenue. |
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Facebook Chat to work on Jabber IM clients (14 May 06:19) |
| After launching with few features and very little developer support, the social network's internal IM client is already announcing future upgrades. |
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Facebook Chat working on Jabber support (14 May 06:19) |
| After launching with few features and very little developer support, the social network's internal IM client is already announcing future upgrades. |
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For developers, the Facebook hype machine is slowing down (14 May 04:30) |
| As one developer points out on his blog that platform activity is slowing, Facebook and the people making a living off it will have to adapt to a more crowded market. |
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The who, what, and why of Where 2.0 (14 May 05:30) |
| The ongoing conference in San Francisco maps out the ever-maturing market for geo-enabled Web applications. |
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Online advertising showing signs of economic wear? (14 May 03:01) |
| Research from data analysis firm PubMatic says that between March and April, online ad monetization rates dropped 23 percent across the Web. |
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Facebook pulls 'stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it (14 May 01:37) |
| Some users of the popular social-networking site panicked when the media gossip blog claimed it would show a list of the five people who visited a given member's profile most frequently. |
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In a crowded market, Wetpaint's colors look solid (14 May 12:44) |
| One blogger theorizes that the small wiki-building start-up could be positioning itself to take on niche social site creators like Ning. |
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StumbleUpon's Stumble Video adds new content partners (13 May 11:31) |
| CollegeHumor, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and a handful of other video content and hosting sites now turn up in the "discovery" site's video section. |
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Photobucket to launch group albums (13 May 09:30) |
| The News Corp.-owned photo-sharing site will let members collaborate on photo groups--something that most of its rivals already do. |
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The market's irrational expectations of open source (13 May 09:30) |
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The market's irrational expectations of open source--The very thing that the companies most need to do (i.e., take a long-term view of open sou... |
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Scarlett Johansson album debuts on Imeem (13 May 09:28) |
| It's the latest high-profile music release to use a streaming music site for a preview, which pulls in ad revenue while making users wait for a physical download. |
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Hello, lover: HBO-iTunes hookup is official (13 May 06:52) |
| Episodes of six shows from the premium-cable network are now available (some at a premium price) on Apple's Store, including all 94 episodes of Sex and the City. |
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Jackpot! $15 million in funding for the Social Gaming Network (13 May 06:30) |
| Yes, folks. The parent company of Jetman and Super Snake has pulled in more money than the average American can expect to make in a lifetime. |
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Jackpot! $15 million for Social Gaming Network (13 May 06:30) |
| Parent company of the Warbook, Jetman, and Super Snake apps clunking up your friends' Facebook profiles has pulled in first-round funding. |
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Who will reign over Digg: Obama or Jobs? (13 May 07:59) |
| Digg's second quarterly "town hall" Webcast reveals that the site's geeky core hasn't been universally happy about the onslaught of politics-related stories in recent months. |
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Digg Town Hall: The pseudo-live blog (13 May 05:29) |
| Tracking the second "town hall" meeting that the social news site has hosted, led by CEO Jay Adelson and founder Kevin Rose. |
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Welcome to the social mess? (13 May 01:05) |
| With new data portability projects from Facebook, MySpace, and Google, the social-networking experience is on the verge of getting either a lot smoother or a lot sloppier. |
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AMD adds low-power quad-core chips (12 May 09:29) |
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AMD adds low-power quad-core chips--AMD introduced energy-efficient quad-core Opteron processors targeted at servers.
Wanting the conseque... |
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Bringing Google into the kitchen (12 May 04:30) |
| CNET News.com's Caroline McCarthy tests out Food 2.0: Secrets From the Chef Who Fed Google, the new cookbook from former Mountain View executive chef Charlie Ayers. |
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As Facebook goes corporate, Mark Zuckerberg loses an early player (12 May 11:48) |
| It's part of the natural evolution of a fast-growing company for some early execs to jump ship when they no longer recognize the start-up they helped build. That might've been why longtime F... |
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Facebook to open the gates with 'Facebook Connect' (10 May 01:02) |
| Hot off the heels of rival MySpace's announcement that it would be connecting its profile content with other social-networking sites, Facebook revealed its own plan for exporting data to oth... |
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Report: Rumored Google, News Corp. bids make Blinkx shares soar (09 May 11:09) |
| Following rumors that the video search engine is looking for a buyer and Google and News Corp. may want it, Blinkx stock rose 50 percent. |
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