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Why is MySpace News a ghost town?

When MySpace News launched last month, I described it as the latest move to turn News Corps social networking site into a one-stop-shop, providing as many reasons as possible for its users to stay within the site. MySpace keeps adding new features and content previously provided by 3rd party sites,...

Tags: MySpace, Social Networks, Social News Sites

Blog posts 2007-05-15

MySpace News goes live

Following the rumors last month that MySpace was getting into the news aggregation game, MySpace News has now gone live. Built on technology developed by Newroo (which News Corp. acquired last year), MySpace news combines the aggregation functionality of Google News, with user voting similar to Digg.From Londons Times newspaper...

Tags: Social News Sites, Social Networks, MySpace

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Digg gets more political; USA Today disowns readers; Wordpress supports OpenID

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Digg gets more political. Not sure how I missed this, but the social news site, Digg, has added a new section dedicated to stories covering the 08 US presidential election....

Tags: Social networking, Blogging, OpenID, USA Today, Wordpress, Digg

Blog posts 2007-03-09

USA Today adds social networking features

The online version of USA Today has undergone a major redesign, adding a bunch of social features to allow readers to create a profile, write a blog, comment and vote on articles, upload images (citizen journalism-style), and send each other messages. The general response throughout the tech-blogosphere has been positive,...

Tags: Blogging, RSS, networking, USA Today, social feature, blog, social networking

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Should Yahoo kill the Flickr and Delicious brands?

One of the points made in Brad Garlinghouses so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto is that Yahoo is spreading itself too thin, with a number of competing and overlapping products. The problem of course has been exacerbated by acquisitions, where the company has sought to buy the best of breed web 2.0...

Tags: Social News Sites, Social Networks, Yahoo

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Additional Resources

Photos: Top 10 newly discovered species

What do a killer jellyfish, shocking pink millipede, and a duckbill dinosaur have in common? They're all species that were discovered in the past year. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Species, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-06

Google trying to take privacy seriously

This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary the same on that affected CNET earlier last month was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before December 31, 2005. There's nothing Google could have done about it, but it's...

Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Social Security, Security, Government, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Photos: Army designates year's best inventions

Every year, the U.S. Army designates a set of top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-05

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

CNET Reviews rates the Garmin Nuvi 880 car GPS gadget, a Panasonic Viera flat-screen TV, the Asus Eee PC 901 laptop, and more. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, GPS, TVs, Handhelds, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-05

Internet abuse and Cloud Computing

A recent uproar in the right wing blogosphere about the shutdown of anti-Obama sites on blogger.com has some serious implications for those considering cloud computing. What seems to have happened there was a simple, if pernicious, denial of service attack carried out for political reasons - but there's not much...

Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Photos: Up close with the Blue Angels

News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels. by CNET News.com

Tags: Angel, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-04

Photos: Cracking Open the Apple Macintosh Classic

TechRepublic examines just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever manufactured--and what tech was like in 1991. by CNET News.com

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Photograph, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-04

Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign

A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what looks like over five different exploits attempt to automatically infect the visitors next to the malware binary fireworks.exe. Historically, Storm...

Tags: Software, Malware, Worm, Exploit, Storm Worm, Day Vulnerability, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Stolen: Google employees' personal data

Stolen: Google employees' personal dataCould be worse...Having them stolen isn't as bad for reputation as losing them... yes, I'm looking at you, British Home Office...RE: Stolen: Google employees' personal dataWow, they can't even secure their own data yet they want you to trust them with your email, documents, and health...

Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Google Inc., Google Employee, personal data

Discussion threads 2008-07-04

Flash Video MX Std (exe)

Flash Video MX Std is to help you to place your video on your personal web pages, eBay auctions, company Web sites and blogs with ease. In addition to convert video to Flash swf, Flash video flv, this program provides a Flash Player with various skins, dazzling video effects, subtitling,...

Tags: Video, Moyea Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Exit Reality (exe)

Exit Reality is a free Internet plug-in that allows anyone to view any Web page in 3D. View any Web page in 3D every website is now an online world. Turn your standard 2D Web page into your own unique 3D space. Takes online social networking to a whole new...

Tags: 3D, Web Page, Exit Reality

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Website Submission Shareware (exe)

Website Submission Shareware promote your software on the Web. Helps you find more than 2000 up-to-date shareware download sites, Website Submission Shareware helps you distributing programs to many shareware download sites on the Internet. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Shareware, Web Site, Website Submission Shareware, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Samsung SGH-T339 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Samsung SGH-T339Several months after it came out with its HotSpot @Home service, T-Mobile introduced two new Wi-Fi-equipped cell phone, the Nokia 6301 and the Samsung SGH-T339. Though the features between the two phones are largely similar, the SGH-T339's red flip design calls more attention to itself. Call quality...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, WIRELESS, T339, Samsung SGH-T339, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., T-Mobile, phone

Product reviews 2008-07-03

Stolen: Google employees' personal data

Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Security, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Sales, Finance, ZDNet Australia, Privacy & data protection

News items 2008-07-03

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?AVG Freeware Ain't So Free After All...Man, am I shocked that AVG is doing this. Of course I don't use the product but have made recommendations in the past to folks who could not afford to purchase good...

Tags: Scanners, Web browsers, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Badware, server log, AVG, AVG LinkScanner

Discussion threads 2008-07-03