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Social Networking Site: A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together. Members communicate by voice, chat, instant message, videoconference...; Full Social Networking Site Definition >>

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12 social networking sites for niche lovers: 12 social networking sites for niche loversWhere are the quiche lovers?Oh! I misread it. You wrote niche, not quiche. Nevermind. =)RE: 12 social networking sites for niche loversFor a second there, I thought you were talking about the French pastry! Now that we're on the topic, there are a couple...; Tags: niche lover, lover, social networking site, social networking; Discussion threads 2008-05-05
12 social networking sites for niche lovers: This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips. The huge popularity of sites like MySpace and FaceBook has spawned an array of niche social networking sites catered to those who want to reduce their exposure and connect with smaller,...; Tags: Talent, Network, Social Networking Site, Fuzzster, NurseLinkUp, Yub, MOG, Flixster, TravellersPoint, TalTopia, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Can the UK government regulate US-based social networking sites?: Can the UK government regulate US-based social networking sites?Home Office attention welcome but ignorantSteve, a good piece. I saw this covered today and my first though was how this could possibly be enforced on non-UK websites. My second thought was whether the same plans would extend to business...; Tags: social networking, social networking site; Discussion threads 2008-04-03
Can the UK government regulate US-based social networking sites?: For some time now, the social networking phenomenon and issues around safety - child protection, identity theft etc. - have been very much in the media spot light in my home country, the UK. And the past few weeks have been no different -- except it's the UK government that's...; Tags: Network, U.K., Social Networking Site, Rory Cellan-Jones, Government, Social Networking, Vertical Industries, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-04-02
66% of young Americans use social networks for candidate information: 24% Americans uses an online social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook, according to the Pew Internet Project. 66% of Americans age 18-29 say they use social networking sites, and 27% say that they have gotten information about candidates and the campaign from them - including 37% among those...; Tags: Network, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB; Blog posts 2008-02-07

Facebook to Scoble: all your data belong to us.: Facebook to Scoble: all your data belong to us.It seems his intentions were just .....I have just read a post by Robert Scoble (http://scobleizer.com/2008/01/03/what-i-was-using-to-hit-facebook/) that he was only trying to "export" his contacts details .. i.e. not trying to export the social graph etc. so I cant see why he...; Tags: Facebook, social networking site, social networking, Scoble; Discussion threads 2008-01-03
"Quarterlife" exclusive to MySpaceTV: MySpace has bagged itself some more professionally-produced online video content, to "air" exclusively on the social networking site. "Quarterlife", a production developed by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, creators of the TV shows "My So-Called Life" and "Thirtysomething", will debut on MySpaceTV on November 11. ...; Tags: Social Networking, Video, MySpace, Quarterlife, Social Networking Site, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2007-09-13
$3 million "Afterworld" debuts on MySpace TV; Windows Live Messenger comes to Bebo; New York Times launches personalized start page; Playboy creates social network for students: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… $3 million "Afterworld" debuts on MySpace TV. In what could be the most expensive online video production to-date, "Afterworld", an animated series about a man who wakes up to find...; Tags: Social Networking, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Network, IM, Microsoft Windows Live, New York Times Co., Microsoft Windows, TV, Playboy, MySpace, Social Networking Site, Steve O'Hear; Blog posts 2007-08-24
EXCLUSIVE: Salon is planning a social networking site: This is a bit off my beat, but since this is the weekend and I happened to notice this first, I thought I'd launch it into the blogosphere.It seems as though political/arts/culture news-and-views-site Salon.com is planning a Social Networking Site.That's obvious after reading the description of a newly posted today ...; Tags: Social Networking, Team, Marketing, Advertisement, Network, Salon, rnrnThis, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-08-18
First predator arrest via MySpace: Thanks to a joint collaboration between MySpace and state attorneys general, Connecticut authorities made its first arrest of a convicted sex offender, reports the Courant News.Christopher Montefusco 30, of West Haven, was charged with violating parole by creating profiles on the popular social networking site. Authorities believe that there are...; Tags: Law enforcement; Blog posts 2007-06-01
IL Senate wants to ban MySpace from schools: The Illinois Senate is extending its effort to protect children from sexual predators by banning MySpace from schools and libraries, reports the Chicago Tribune. Critics of the proposed legislation say that that banning those sites would affect those who cant afford the Internet at home, and schools already have...; Tags: Social networking, Education Technology; Blog posts 2007-02-19
LinkSViewer.com: follow the money around Silicon Valley: The New York Times recently argued that, when it comes to creating innovative technology, geography matters -- and that Silicon Valley is still the place to be for anybody with start-up ambitions.Give birth to an information-technology idea in Silicon Valley and the chances of success seem vastly higher than when...; Tags: Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-02-16
Adopt OpenID and live!: Fred Stutzman is on a mission to get emerging social networking sites SNS to adopt OpenID. His chief analogy: email addresses are more valuable because theyre open--so would SNS operations if they used an open profile. OpenID is one of the emerging open identity standards that I...; Tags: General, OpenID, Security, social networking, social networking site, social networking sites operator, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology; Blog posts 2006-11-30
DOPA bill would require schools to restrict online usage: MySpace.com and its ilk got a major fingerwagging recently as politicians accused the social networking sites of failing to protect minors from sexual predators and other bad social influences, reports News.com. A House subcommittee debated whether schools and libraries should require some form of Internet ID that would bar...; Tags: DoPa; Blog posts 2006-07-12
Reaching college students in style: The potential buying power of the 17- to 24-year-old demographic would have just about any advertiser vying for their attention. But there is a downside to advertising on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, where advertisers don't really know what kind of images and content their ad miight associated...; Tags: social networking site; Blog posts 2006-06-26
Potential employers lurk on MySpace, Facebook: With the explosive popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace comes the risk of a future employer finding out what a job applicant does in his or her spare time. More and more employers are using these sites, along with Google and Yahoo to screen potential applicants,...; Tags: social networking site, applicant, Facebook, MySpace, social networking, networking; Blog posts 2006-06-13

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Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect: A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists: Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware site, and third-party exploit detection tools are also detecting internal pages as exploit hosting ones, in this particular case Mal/Badsrc-A....; Tags: Redmond, SQL, SQL Injection, F**k, Mal/Badsrc-A, Programming Languages, Databases, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF: Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...; Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16