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Internet And Social Networking Good For Kids Says Research

Desire Athow — Mon, 24 Nov 2008

Offering a bit of relief to parents who are worried about their kids wasting considerable amount of time on the internet, a study from McArthur Foundation revealed that spending time on the internet can actually help kids developing social skills needed for later stages of life

Live Teenager Suicide On Justin.tv Highlights Online Social Phenomenon

Desire Athow — Sat, 22 Nov 2008

The suicide of Abraham Biggs on Live video streaming website Justin.tv has apparently been watched by more than 1500 viewers

Google Closes Lively, Ends Virtual World, Social Networking Experiment

Desire Athow — Thu, 20 Nov 2008

Within 24 hours of announcing Gmail Themes, Google has decided to shut down Lively, its short-lived Second-life'esque world that was launched back in July 2008.

Microsoft To Turn Windows Live Into Social Networking Service Provider

Desire Athow — Thu, 13 Nov 2008

Microsoft is set to massively update Windows Live and finally bring all the bits together, breaking apart the silos that have been preventing communication tools from working together and creating what they call an "integrated personal communication service"

Myspace Mulling Plans for An iPod Rival; Will It Make (Free) Calls As Well?

Desire Athow — Sat, 08 Nov 2008

Myspace co-founder Chris DeWolfe has not ruled out plans to sell a MP3 player or a similar device that could compete with Apple's iconic iPod as he replied to John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit

MySpace finds a way to keep user-uploaded videos online

Team Outlaw — Fri, 07 Nov 2008

Social networking site MySpace will place advertising on some user-uploaded videos that will be recognised by advertising software

Social media and privacy

Alex Eckelberry — Mon, 03 Nov 2008

Shelly Palmer blogs about privacy and Twitter, as regards marketing companies mining the data:

Virgin Atlantic Sacks 13 Cabin Crew Over Facebook Remarks

Desire Athow — Sat, 01 Nov 2008

13 Virgin Atlantic flight attendants have been dismissed following comments left on popular networking website Facebook in which they described passengers as "chavs" and lashed out at the airline's safety standards

Linkedin Launches New Applications To Boost Membership

Desire Athow — Thu, 30 Oct 2008

The popular social network for professionals, Linkedln, has started to offer third party productivity application over its network

Facebook Good For Businesses and Firms Says Thinktank

Desire Athow — Wed, 29 Oct 2008

Social networking could be more than mere time wasters according to a highly-respected thinktank which thinks that they are essential to spread and evangelise ideas and thoughts