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- Scammers trick users to ship stolen goods
- A society of victims...If people stopped being a victim by wanting someoneto do everything for them.Use commonsense, if it is too good to be true thenit is.The entire public Internet is a sewer of sortsfull of spammers, criminals, and imposters.Only fools act naive in using insecure passwords,and posting private data...
- Tags: Social networking, Google Inc., social networking site
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Enterprise architecture pitfalls: the obvious, and beyond the obvious
- This is why we don't use twitter.140 characters isn't enough to present anything but abbreviated thought and maybe your grocery list.Trying to discuss something like EA being limited to 140 keystrokes is a joke. And trying to carry on any kind of business transaction with this limitation is a...
- Tags: Social networking, social networking site, enterprise architecture
- Discussion threads 2009-09-06
- Will Facebook 'infantilize' the human mind?
- Social network sites risk infantilizing the 21st century mind, leaving it characterized by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathize and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist profiled in the Guardian UK. A professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford says there...
- Tags: Facebook, Identity, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts
- The concept of building a fraudulent ecosystem by abusing legitimate services only is nothing new, and as we've already seen numerous times throughout the year, malicious attackers are actively embracing it. Bebo, the popular social networking site is currently under attack from spammers that are automatically registering thousands of bogus...
- Tags: Bebo, Spammer, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Pre-university jitters: join a student social network
- Pre-university jitters: join a student social networkWhy another social networking site?To avoid the hassle of yet another social networking site, many seem to just create groups on facebook etc (e.g. "Starting at My University 2008")
- Tags: Social networking, Pre-university, student social network, social networking site
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- 42% of Internet users do not know what social networking is
- Across the 17 global markets surveyed, 42% of people know what online social networking is, says Synovate. The Dutch were most likely to know the term with 89% answering ‘yes’, followed by Japan at 71% and Americans with 70% answering in the affirmative. 26% across the markets surveyed are members...
- Tags: Internet User, Internet, Network, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- 42% of Internet users do not know what social networking is
- Across the 17 global markets surveyed, 42% of people know what online social networking is, says Synovate. The Dutch were most likely to know the term with 89% answering ‘yes’, followed by Japan at 71% and Americans with 70% answering in the affirmative. 26% across the markets surveyed are members...
- Tags: Internet User, Internet, Network, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Google's Tim Armstrong on YouTube; IE 8 and Microsoft Cashback
- Google's Tim Armstrong talked up YouTube's profit potential and dished a bit on Microsoft's cashback program to gin up search market share. Armstrong also declined to chat about IE 8 and the possibility that Google launched the Chrome browser to combat its privacy feature. Armstrong, speaking at...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Armstrong, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Web Browsers, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
- Top social networking sites in France in April 2008Facebook on the riseThanks for this "Top Social Networking Sites" table. The growth of Facebook is exponential, this site having already overtaken Myspace.
- Tags: social networking, social networking site
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Cool Tools - Plan a festive Fourth of July with social apps
- The Cool Tools feature is taking a long weekend with the rest of us so it's making its holiday splash today. This week in Cool Tools I explore ways that we can leverage the social Web to plan for a fun and festive Fourth of July celebration. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Barbecue, BrightKite, Cool Tools Feature, Festival, Friend, Jennifer Leggio, Marketing, Online Communications, Productivity, Social Networking, Social Networking Site, Tool
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- 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
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