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Ning’s 200,000 active social networks are starting to add up
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Ning lets anyone (not in the porn business) create their own social network and the company says that sometime today the millionth social network will be formed on the site. Some 200,000 of these networks are currently active out of one million total,...
Tags: Gina Bianchini, social networks
Former AOL head to run News Corp. digital
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Jonathan Miller, a former head of Time Warner online unit AOL, was named by News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday to oversee MySpace and other digital businesses at the media giant. Miller, 52, will serve as chairman and chief executive of the...
Tags: social networks, News Corp.
BBC News: Social sites dent privacy efforts
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The anonymised data is produced by social sites who sell it to marketing firms to generate cash. The results suggest web firms should do more to protect users' privacy, said the researchers. Circle of friends Computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Dr...
Tags: social networks, anonymous data
Cautionary tales from the social-networking universe
Toronto :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility But as lovely as social networking may be, there are a few problems. One of the biggest appears to be that you can kiss your privacy good-bye. Now, I’m not talking about the predilection of some people to share intimate details about themselves on social...
Tags: social networks
Social Networks Now More Popular Than Email, Report Says
Paris :: France | 9 months ago
Credibility Report Says from the you've-got-a-poke dept A new report says that "member communities" -- sites like social networks and blogs -- are now more popular than email . The Nielsen report says that two out of three internet users, in the eight countries it...
Tags: social networks, report says
Watford Observer, UK: Herts police launch Facebook page
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Hertfordshire Constabulary says it has joined the trendy online social networking site in a bid to engage and interact with members of the community more effectively...James Garley, web editor for the force, said: “Myself and a colleague did a lot of...
Tags: social networks, networks sites
Social networks are telcos' new best friend (Reuters)
Barcelona :: Spain | 9 months ago
Credibility Everybody at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wanted to be the new best friend of the social networks. From the world's biggest phone maker, Nokia, to tiny Irish semiconductor start-up Movidia, delegates to the wireless industry's biggest...
Tags: social networks
TMCnet.com: Spiceworks to Present on Social Business Applications and Participate in Panel on Advertising in Social Networks at AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC Conference
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility The �Advertising Meets Social Networks' panel discussion will explore if ads have shown traction on major social networks and if not, how can they be optimized. Speakers include: Moderator: Peter Kafka, Senior Editor, All Things Digital Jay Hallberg,...
Genes may determine popularity, researchers find
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Researchers at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego report that popularity seems to have an inherited component. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard, along with Christopher Dawes and James Fowler of UC San Diego, studied 1,110 twins in a population...
Tags: Nicholas Christakis, social networks, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, National Academy of Sciences, UC San Diego
Canada.com: Canadian podcasting royalty down, but not out
Ottawa :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility This includes commercial sites that may have background music, podcasters, online video sites, as well as social networks...First -- and likely most importantly -- a majority of the board was clearly concerned with the impact of such an unexpected tariff.
Tags: social, video, social networks
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