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Privacy is not dead: SXSWi keynoter Danah Boyd
Cnet News &bull 4 Hours Ago
That was the message Saturday from Danah Boyd, a social media expert who works for Microsoft Research and who was Saturday's keynote speaker at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival here. Boyd is one of the original social media researchers and has spent years studying the dynamics of how systems like MySpace and Facebook impact on teens and youth culture, and how that culture is impacting such services. But she also has demonstrated over the years a keen sense of… Full Story »
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MySpace Musical Chairs: Will the Partovis Stay or Will They Go Now?
All Things Digital Boom Town &bull Mar 12, 2010
While there have surely been a lot of departures of talent at MySpace over the last year-including two major shifts in top management-one of the more interesting guessing games of late concerning the social networking company has been over the fate of the well-known tech… Full Story »
Theodore R. Hart, Sheeraz D. Haji, James M. Greenfield - People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities
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Aol Lifestream
Museum of Modern Beta &bull Mar 11, 2010
Get all your updates in one place. Lifestream. Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. Full Story »
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AOL Launches Standalone Lifestream: This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been
Seeking Alpha &bull Mar 11, 2010Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say Aol. Like Friendfeed, Lifestream aggregates a number of third party social networks - Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare, Delicious, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, etc., so if you follow a Lifestream… Full Story »
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MySpace first to drop pants on Outlook
The Register &bull Mar 11, 2010
MySpace for Outlook enables you to view activity updates for friends and colleagues in the People Pane, synchronise your MySpace contact list to your Outlook contacts, and get one-click access to profiles," said Microsoft program manager Michael Affronti. In February… Full Story »
Drew Smith - Social Networking for Genealogists
sponsored listing • Shopping.comUsing genealogy-related examples, Smith demonstrates how many social networking and Web 2.0 sites and services can be used to share resources and communicate with other genealogists....Full Story »
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The Day Abu Dhabi Became an Unlikely Crossroad For Search Wars
Paid Content Social Media &bull Mar 11, 2010
At the powerhouse Abu Dhabi Media Summit here at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, two of the biggest third-party search deals are being negotiated behind the scenes, we have learned. It just so happens that all the players involved were… Full Story »
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News Corp. Mulling Sale Of Struggling Mobile Content Properties
Paid Content Social Media &bull Mar 10, 2010
News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) may shed the ailing Fox Mobile Group, including the Jamba and Jamster brands, to focus on digital properties, like MySpace, reports The Financial Times. A sale would not be a big surprise. After News Corp. acquired… Full Story »
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Microsoft Outlook makes friends with MySpace
Cnet News &bull Mar 10, 2010
Microsoft and MySpace said on Wednesday that they are ready with the beta version of a tool that lets Outlook users see their MySpace connections within the e-mail and calendaring program. A new "social connector" feature for Outlook lets users… Full Story »
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Biz Break: Google to the bike path; plus: Valley's painful jobless rate
Silicon Valley &bull Mar 10, 2010Today: Google adds bicycling directions to Google Maps. Silicon Valley's jobless rate jumps to 12.4 percent in January, mostly from employers' seasonal cuts. Plus: More Google, MySpace, Silicon Valley tech stocks. Google worked with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, which advocates for… Full Story »
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MySpace Revamps Games Home Page
Socal Tech &bull Mar 10, 2010
Los Angeles-based MySpace said today that it has launched a new, revamped version of the firm's game homepage, as a new MySpace Games site, to provide a more social gaming environment. According to the social networking site, it has made… Full Story »
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Back to the future at MySpace?
Cnet News &bull Mar 10, 2010
Earlier this week, BoomTown visited MySpace headquarters in Beverly Hills, Calif., to interview its new co-presidents, Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, and get a look-see at its evolving revival plans to stop the social-networking ship from sinking further. Thus, I… Full Story »
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RockYou's Deal of the Day is new way to monetize social games with ads
Venture Beat &bull Mar 10, 2010
As Facebook has moved away from letting app developers spam users in their apps, RockYou has had to adjust its business away from purely viral apps such as hugs or gifts. And one of its great new schemes to keep Facebook users engaged in its apps is the Deal of the Day. This promotion is a special offer embedded inside a social game that lets users engage with a brand advertisement… Full Story »
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Study: $48 Billion In Value Created Over 15 Years In SoCal IT VC-Backed Firms
Socal Tech &bull Mar 10, 2010
A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. The study, conducted by Jon Funk of… Full Story »
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Video Tour of Redesign: Back to the Future at MySpace? Or Just Another Retread?
All Things Digital Boom Town &bull Mar 10, 2010
Earlier this week, BoomTown visited MySpace HQ in Beverly Hills, Calif. to interview its new co-presidents, Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, and get a look-see at its evolving revival plans to stop the social networking ship from sinking further. Thus,… Full Story »
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Why the explosion of social games excites veteran developers
Cnet News &bull Mar 10, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO--For game developers whose industry experience predates not just Facebook but even Mark Zuckerberg, you might expect that abandoning making big, complex games for simple titles like Farmville and similar social projects would be anathema. But to hear a panel of respected industry veterans who spoke before a packed house in a huge room at the Game Developers Conference here Tuesday, the truth is exactly the opposite. In fact, to these four speakers at least, transitioning from working on $25 million console-level games that take years to build to small… Full Story »
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Why MySpace Co-Presidents Aren't Worried About Growth
Paid Content Yahoo &bull Mar 10, 2010
MySpace (NYSE: NWS) pulled up the curtain a little this week, letting in some light on a makeover still very much in progress and marking a debut of sorts for Co-Presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn as a team. By walking reporters through their road map, the two hope to move the story from "oh woe is MySpace" to "look at MySpace go." It isn't going to be easy and it isn't going to be fast. MySpace's problems were legendary before Jones and Hirschhorn arrived last year as part of a turn-around triumvirate-and even more so with the hasty departure… Full Story »
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MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up
Examiner: Technology &bull Mar 10, 2010
Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to those sites more easily and carve… Full Story »
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MySpace outlines makeover after exec shakeup
Aol Money Tech &bull Mar 10, 2010
LOS ANGELES -Lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning updates it hopes will restore some of its luster. Full Story »
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Video: New MySpace Co-Presidents Hirschhorn and Jones Talk About the Past (Troubled!), Present (Work in Progress) and Future (Revival?)
All Things Digital Boom Town &bull Mar 10, 2010
On Monday, as part of a press hello-there it is doing this week, BoomTown traveled to Los Angeles for the day to finally check in with the new management at the turmoiled-plagued MySpace. That would be new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn… Full Story »
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MySpace: We're Tops On Android Market
Socal Tech &bull Mar 10, 2010
Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace reported Tuesday that the firm is now the top, social application on the Android platform, and is the third most popular downloaded application overall on the Android Market. MySpace trails T-Mobile's account information app… Full Story »
