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When tweets can make you a jailbird

2010-03-16T20:45:06Z

<div id="subtitle">The feds turn to social networks to fight crime, hoping that tweet will give them a jailbird</div><div><p>Maxi Sopo was having so much fun "living in paradise" in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor in Seattle<...

Nearly one-third of Danes use Facebook at work: poll

2010-03-16T09:17:17Z

<div><p>Nearly one-third of Danes regularly log on to Facebook at work, mingling away the equivalent of about 1.5 billion euros in lost working hours each year, according to a poll published Tuesday.</p><p>The poll, conducted by the Dwarf and Userneeds institutes between February 2 and 8, showed that some 55,000 Facebook users spend more than 30 minutes of each work day logged on to the social networking site.</...

Break the law and your new 'friend' may be the FBI

2010-03-16T00:30:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Facebook feds go undercover: Report shows FBI, other agents dipping quietly into social media</div><div><p>The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Reuters) - The use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by militant and hate groups grew by almost 20 percent in the past year, a report by the Facebook opening operations office in India to support global growth</div><div><p>Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.</p><p>The office, in the southern Indian city of Facebook said Monday it would open its first office in India to help it tap the increasing popularity of social networking via the Internet in the country.</p><p>The office will be located in the southern city of Hyderabad and work along similar lines to other operation centres in the MUMBAI (Reuters) - Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages.</p><p>Facebook's office ...

Online Brand Management - Optimizing Facebook

2010-03-13T14:25:09Z

We've previously discussed the Web's amazing tendency to take very good ideas and adapt them to techniques largely unrelated to their original intent. Nowhere is this more currently prevalent than in the realm of Social Media Networking.<br><br>SM sites were intended to allow people to present a profile and keep in touch with interested parties. In essence a combination of email and webpage, they exploded in popularity with the sort of overnight success prevalent on the Web. Of co...

Personal Blog Positioning Will Make You A Social Media Pro

2010-03-12T15:33:02Z

So you have been hearing all the buzz about getting free exposure for your product or service by using the great social media platforms like Youtube & Facebook, right? Whether you have your Twitter, Youtube, or Facebook channel created yet, you probably have no idea how to piece them all together like a jigsaw puzzle to produce the most exposure to your product or service.<...

Lesbian Prom Date

2010-03-11T18:33:19Z

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, reads her many messages from Facebook and Myspace concerning her desire to attend her senior prom with a same-sex date ...

MySpace upping ante in online social games

2010-03-11T06:15:59Z

<div><p>MySpace began courting videogame developers as it moved to capitalize on the booming popularity of playing games online at social networks.</p><p>"We initially embraced games a few years back with a gaming platform, but at the end of the day it was fairly isolated in certain parts of MySpace," MySpace co-president Mike Jones told AFP at a Facebook? The answer is a resounding yes! In a 2009 survey of MDsearch physicians, 67% confessed to being regular Facebook users. Surprised? We were too. The idea of a busy physician taking time to update a status or write on someone's wall...well, it's hard to imagine. But when you consider that Facebook has over 400 million active users, well, it really shouldn't surprise anyone that physicians would be part of the ...

Classmates Sued Over Content-Sharing Arrangement

2010-03-11T00:15:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Complaint accuses site of improperly exposing personal information</div><div><p>Two Classmates.com members have sued the well-known social networking site, accusing it of exposing members' personal information to “unknown” parties without giving a proper warning.</p><p>The suit, filed in federal court in Seattle, concerns a January 30 e-mail announcing that the site was “coming up with ways to le...

MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up

2010-03-10T10:17:00Z

<div id="subtitle">MySpace outlines makeover after executive shake up in hopes of carving out entertainment niche</div><div><p>Long ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts t...

MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth

2010-03-09T19:30:28Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.</p><p>Mike Jones, who took over as co-president last month ...

Facebook, police under fire after sex offender kills girl

2010-03-09T09:16:07Z

<div><p>The safety of social networking sites was once again called into question on Tuesday after a convicted sex offender killed a teenage girl he had befriended on Facebook.</p><p> Peter Chapman, 33, was jailed for a minimum of 35 years on Monday after confessing to the kidnap, rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall.</p><p> Chapman, a co...

Cyber-bullying cases put heat on Google, Facebook

2010-03-09T01:30:11Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals.&l...

Courts finally catching up to texting jurors

2010-03-06T15:00:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Courts now barring jurors use of social media, blogs and Internet while serving on trials</div><div><p>Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches.</p><p>That's the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices continue to cause mistrials, overturned convictions and chaotic delays in court proceedings.</p><p>Last year a Sophos has promoted Chris Doggett to VP of global channels. He will work to grow global partnerships on a local level and to improve the efficiency and online sales growth opportunities for partners that cater to SMBs. Webroot, an internet security provider, has appointed Chris Benham as chief marketing officer, ...

Facebook in no rush to go public: Zuckerberg

2010-03-04T10:16:17Z

<div><p>Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says he is in no hurry to launch an initial public offering for the wildly popular social networking site.</p><p>"We're going to go public eventually, because that's the contract that we have with our investors and our employees," the Facebook co-founder told