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WERE Henry Ford brought back to life today, he would most likely be delighted by the Internet: the uninhibited way many people express themselves on the Web makes it easy to supervise the private lives of ... via New York Times

"We see people who have connected with people from their past and, given how mobile we have become, being able to stay in contact friends and family from across the country and around the world - all via this easy to use and engaging platform."

PRESS RELEASE ZINC RESEARCH ************************ 7 million+ can't be wrong - Facebook continues to take Canada by storm Survey shows half of online Canadians are members of Facebook Calgary, AB - Over the ... via SooToday

"Anything we can do to protect children from online predators, we're all for"

A southern Indiana sheriff's department has created a MySpace page, using the social networking site as a way to protect children from online predators. via WHAS-TV Louisville

Online professional independent publishers rejoyce! 2008 promises to be a year of great innovation for everyone publishing online as opportunities to expand or start your own micro publishing company will only increase. New powerful publishing and content distribution tools will make their debut in 2008 while some of the existing technologies and services will greatly refine, consolidate and expand their present offerings. Change is the name of the game, meaning that in as much as you can't follow, participate and understand fully the logic of today's web, the changes search engines are going through, the rise of social media, it is going to be increasingly hard for new publishers to successfully enter and survive in this extended marketplace. As opportunities and tools to do better as an online publisher will dramatically increase, also the number of independent web publishers failing will skyrocket due to many having come late to the game and not having really understood fully how things are changing. This is why as we progress it becomes increasingly critical to leverage pivotal business opportunities situated not exclusively in the creation and re-distribution of fresh news and information but rather more in the direction of aggregating, contextualizing, explaining and "making-sense" of all this information effectively. For however this may appear simple and obvious to the non-expert mind, these are truly the crucial innovation areas in which I expect to see major innovations and changes coming next: Making sense of things in new highly effective, interactive, just-in-time, informal and entertaining formats. Isn't that promise of the Semantic web anyhow? So, what has 2008 in store for you? Here's in a two-part summary report, check out at a glance, what I see ahead:

"There is a massive opportunity here"

Forget Second Life . The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set. via CNET News.com

Just read an interesting blog post by Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 . He's talking about generational digital communication preference patterns. via The TrueTalk Blog

Posted: Today at 11:03 a.m. On December 14, Google's RSS feed reader application, Google Reader, introduced a new way for "friends" to see your "shared" feed items. via Local Tech Wire

"We think it's fantastic that people can use technology and the internet ... to catch up with and reunite with loved ones"

WHILE most Australians spent Christmas Day pulling crackers and sharing jokes, nearly 100,000 others spent it alone. via News.com.au

"Mummy to Archie-Lee", she wrote that she loved it when he "does his little giggle". "I don't no what I'd do if I didn't have him"

Archie-Lee Hirst died from multiple injuries Dozens of internet tributes have been posted after a one-year-old boy was mauled to death by a family dog. via BBC

"These kids have figured out a way to use technology to help them assess and establish their identities"

You can't beat them, so go on and join them. That's among the primary messages of a new book by CSU Dominguez Hills psychology professor Larry Rosen, who targets parents in his discussion of how and why the ... via Daily Breeze

"Cuomo is about confiscation. The Chinese are capitalist. We've got a Communist here."

Andrew Cuomo is 'the star for 2007' In a political turnaround, New York attorney general shows success in new post. via Star-Gazette.COM

Ionut Alex Chitu at Google Operating System has been spending some time poking around in the entrails of the Javascript code behind Gmail, and has found what he believes are signs of forthcoming chat-related ... via Mathewingram.com

You may remember that it was among the first social networks to sign on ValidationID for the protection of its users, as well as capabilities to note the authentication of other Yuniti members. via Mashable

"There are all kinds of things they're opening themselves up to"

Identity thieves increasingly troll Facebook and other social networking web sites to find easy victims and harvest personal information, the Better Business Bureau of Mainland B.C. warned Tuesday. via The Chilliwack Progress

"Key trends for businesses will include managing the attention wars, time-shifting, the whole emerging mashup culture and the coming trust economy"

From a distance, it often seems that Google has all but cornered the market on Internet advertising, but plenty of entrepreneurs believe opportunities remain. via E-Commerce Times