The head of the Catholic Church in England is claiming that Facebook and other social networking sites are leading to teen suicide.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols claims that the rise of social networks means that teenagers aren't developing real ...
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MySpace, that social networking site you last looked at in 2006 before being seduced by Facebook's crisp blues and clean whites, is now looking to gaming to help it compete. Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference ...
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Abandon your MySpace account for Facebook? You might just be a racist.
At a keynote speech during New York's Democracy forum at Lincoln Center, Danah Boyd spoke of the racial disparity and possible reasons for mass abandonment of MySpace for ...
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Nearly 30% of MySpace staff will be unemployed by 4pm, PST today as the company lays of between 450 and 500 of it's 1,600 or so domestic employees.
It appears that the company decided to get rid of ...
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Actor Johnny Palermo has died after being involved in a car crash in North Hollywood June 8.
Palermo's girlfriend Alessandra Giangrande, who was driving the vehicle, was also killed in the accident. Details relating to the possible cause ...
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Video metrics firm Visible Measures has scored a new deal with MySpace. The company will provide all online video measurement services for the social networking site, it announced this morning.
As MySpace's "official provider of digital video measurement ...
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MySpace and Facebook have both announced new partnerships for rich media content within their networks. MySpace is teaming up with Microsoft to bring Silverlight functionality to its developer platform, while Facebook is introducing expanded Flash support for ...
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A 14-year-old girl is facing child porn-related charges over a series of nude self-photographs found on her MySpace profile. The teen was arrested and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
Social Network Investigation
The girl, from New ...
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MySpace has introduced a new option to let users edit photos from right within the social network. The built-in tool comes as part of a partnership with FotoFlexer, a Web-based image editing service.
The newly integrated MySpace photo ...
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MySpace Chief Operating Officer Amit Kapur is leaving the social network to start his own tech company. Two other senior MySpace execs will join him, according to published reports.
Kapur, engineering manager Jim Benedetto, and product strategy head ...
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As we have moved along the timeline of what we refer to as Web 2.0 and social media one of the big standbys of the movement has been that of openness and transparency. At the ...
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Apple has put the kibosh on Facebook usage in its U.S. retail stores, according to recently published online reports.
Apparently, Facebook surfing was eating up too much computer time in Apple Stores. It's a similar situation to ...
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Some of the 90,000 sex offenders banned from MySpace have headed to Facebook, according to an expert.
Internet security firm Sentinel have found over 8,000 known sex offenders on Facebook, and believe the true number could be as ...
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Social media advertising firm SocialMedia Networks has secured $6 million in fresh funding this Friday. The Series B dough comes from IDG Ventures SF and Charles River Ventures.
SocialMedia Networks serves ads in about 5,000 different applications on ...
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Meebo is on quite a roll this year. The messaging service announced a deal Friday in which it'll bring Facebook and MySpace IM capabilities into its meebo.com interface. It's the first company to offer such an option ...
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Sarah Perez has a post over on ReadWriteWeb that has been kind of bothering me for most of the day. The way the story goes is this
woman goes to a party
woman puts on a pirate hat
woman has ...
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Lindsay Lohan has addressed rumors of her breakup with Samantha Ronson, this time on her MySpace. We asked for more info, and we got it. This was characteristically succinct for Linds, but as long as it's not ...
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A Federal Jury in Los Angeles hearing the MySpace suicide case has found Lori Drew guilty of three minor offenses.
The MySpace Suicide made headlines last year after it was disclosed that a Missouri teenager Megan Meier ...
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There is a court case going on in the United States that could potentially make everyone with an alias or an anonymous account at any of the many social media sites a criminal. Anyone following the Lori ...
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What was Courtney Love doing this weekend, you ask? I just happen to have the answer for you, and it's kind of like what we do at The Inquisitr except, erm, she's almost entirely incoherent: blogging 60+ ...
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A global survey conducted by hi5.com among its members revealed that 83% favors Senator Barack Obama as the next president of the United States of America.
Although Obama had a substantial lead in all parts of the world, ...
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First it's the economy in a tailspin. Then it's web advertising heading for a decline and even people trying to figure out if lifestreaming is going to be the sperm that gives birth to the next generation ...
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