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A judge has ordered the reinstatement of 4 Belleville High School students who were expelled after photos of them with what appeared to be guns, drugs and piles of cash appeared on MySpace.com. Van Buren Public ... via WLNS-TV Lansing

"This has gotten completely out of hand. We got to bring attention to this matter."

More than a year after an eastern Missouri teenager killed herself because of mean messages she received over the Internet, a second St. via News Tribune

Those planning a winter vacation still can go online to one of the big Web sites such as Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity for hotel, rental car and air fare. via CourierPostOnline

A survey has found that phishing scams don't just hurt consumers -- the brands hijacked by criminals to launch attacks can also emerge with scars. via PC World

A Tuscola County teenager who flew to the Middle East last year to be with a man she met on MySpace.com has broken up with him on the "Dr. Phil" show. via WLNS-TV Lansing

The pioneering online social networking firm that operates Classmates.com has sought approval from US regulators to launch an initial public offering of stock valued from 120 to 144 million dollars. via TurkishPress.com

Online music sharing is easier than ever, but it isn't always legal. Ezmo provides you with an easy-to-use online music player that lets you share your music collection with up to ten friends without having to look over your shoulder. If you take a look at recent CD sales it quickly becomes apparent that a lot more people are listening to, buying and sharing their music in digital formats. There are now a great many legal - and illicit - ways to get hold of your favorite music with a simple download from the web, and services that help you to share and discover new music are also proliferating. Ezmo makes it easy for you to upload your entire music collection to the web, legally, and share it with up to ten friends or family members. In return, you can also share the music that they upload to the service. This gives you a potentially huge jukebox of music that you can access anywhere you have a web connection. If you want to listen to your music at work, in a hotel room as you travel, or anywhere else you can get an internet connection, Ezmo makes sure you have it to hand in a browser-based media player. If you then invite your friends to participate, you'll also have access to their music too. With a simple media player at the core of the application, and basic social networking features thrown in, Ezmo makes it easy to create playlists, search your tracks, and explore your friends collections in a familiar setting, without having to take up masses of space on your hard drive. And the best part of it is that the unlimited storage supplied by the service is totally free to use. Here are the details:

Molson Coors Brewing Co., the third- largest U.S. brewer, ended a Canadian photo contest on social- networking Web site Facebook Inc. via Bloomberg.com

Microsoft is preparing another update for the Xbox 360 Dashboard right now in the hope of making it even easier for gamers to expand their Friends network on the Xbox LIVE service by letting them check out the ... via Xboxic

"The concept of a news feed is something we are very focused on, and we'll be well down the path in the next 30 to 45 days"

News Corp's popular online social network, MySpace, plans to launch Facebook-style "news feeds" in the next 30 to 45 days, Fox Interactive Media President Peter Levinsohn said on Monday. via Reuters

"If Facebook's argument is that sharing private information with hundreds or thousands of someone's closest `friends' is not the same as making that information `public', that shows how weak Facebook's argument is"

Facebook recently issued a statement in response to online activist group MoveOn.org's charge that its "Beacon" advertising programme is a violation of users' privacy. via Travel Distribution News

"It's all about bringing attention to the strike and the power of the Internet"

Striking TV and movie writers kept up the pressure on studios by picketing and intensifying an Internet campaign that uses the very medium at issue in the contentious negotiations.

Both sides were set to resume contract talks Monday. The Writers Guild of America went on strike Nov. 5 over payment for work aired on the Web. Writers want more money when TV shows and films are sold on Internet sites such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes.

Studios, networks and producers, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, say it is too early to know which business model will succeed on the Web. They want flexibility to experiment without having to be locked into payment formulas. Read more

"The raths will try to cover all the 26 constituencies in the state and will have a major impact on the voters ahead of the elections"

Posted online: Monday , November 26, 2007 at 12:00:00 Updated: Monday , November 26, 2007 at 11:07:52 Rajkot, Gujarat, November 26: The Congress and the BJP have decided to take electioneering for next month's ... via Express India

"There's a fine line that gets crossed when behaviour data slips from being a convenience to being Big Brother. This is one of those times."

Submitted by Sui-Lee Wee on November 25, 2007 - 11:53pm. Facebook has a new enemy. via Theory B

"The cost to a person's future can be very high if something undesirable is found."

Young people are unaware that information they put on internet blogs and social networking sites can be used to vet them for jobs and university places. via Sky News