Social Blogging

"The Chinese Internet is on the verge of tremendous growth over the next 2-3 years to 250 million users"

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese online video Web site Hupo.TV, backed by Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan, landed an exclusive partnership with China government-backed pop radio station Music Radio, the company said on Wednesday.

Hupo.TV, which draws more than 30 million unique monthly visitors, will manage Music Radio's Web site as well as its online marketing and events. Music Radio is part of China Central People's Broadcasting Station.

Greenspan once ran the company that owned the top Internet social network MySpace and most recently staged an unsuccessful bid to snatch Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co Inc. from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Read more

A Marine based at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune traveled to Pittsburgh for a Christmas Eve encounter with a 13-year-old girl he met online, authorities said. via Wral.com

TEACHERS' leaders will today call on website owners to do more to combat cyber bullying. via Daily Record

"Police officers ask about specific things on our blogs when they call us in for investigation. They use IP-address tracking to find out who is writing which blog."

In Iran, a large red icon pops up on computer screens. In Syria, there's a discreet note from the filter. via McClatchy DC

Social software development now depends on effective online marketing and promotion more than any other components in its business development strategy. Photo credit: Jose Manuel Gelpi Diaz But what are the critical issues and problems a social media applications builder needs to face and how can they be avoided? Here are some good questions you may try to answer: Is it enough to launch your new social media application with a fanfare of posts and press releases? Is there more? Is it reasonable to expect early users to immediately find successful uses and applications? Where is your key focus after launch? On getting Slashdotted or in providing higher value to your niche audience? How do you survive until monetization day comes? Joshua Porter, adds more insight to its earlier high-value analysis of common issues and pitfalls that affect the successful development of social media tools. Again, by focusing on what is best not to do Joshua provides you with three more strategic tips on how to build a successful social web application that makes everyone happy: creators and users. Here Joshua's advice: Intro by Robin Good

"We have imposed certain criteria in order to keep the network exclusive. To join, you need to be invited by a trusted member"

Wednesday December 26, 2007 Care to rub shoulders, virtually speaking, with the likes of supermodel Naomi Cambell or fashion icon Jean-Charles de Castelbajac? If the answer is 'yes,' then the solution is ... via PakTribune

Posted Dec 24th 2007 12:43AM by Brad Linder Filed under: Internet , Social Software , Search Exactly one year after Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales first announced plans to create a human powered search engine, ... via Download Squad

"I'm resigning because I'm not worthy to carry on as Miss France"

Support for embattled Miss France Valerie Begue, whose title has been endangered by raunchy photographs, has poured in from community and church leaders. via The Post Chronicle

"Infectados pelo Virus do Orkut"

Users of Google's Orkut social networking site have been reminded of the perils of web applications after they were hit by a worm. via Techworld

End of year means one thing, predictions. Here are 10 things we predict: 1- Death of Blogs - Not Quite Wait, before Dave Winer has a heart attack, let me explain. via HipMojo.com

"The Internet's going to kill the mixtape."

Watch out mixtapes, Soulja Boy's taking a new path to hip-hop stardom: the Internet. via Asbury Park Press Online

"This is another precautionary tale for parents to know that if their children are on MySpace or Facebook they should not give out personal information or allow strangers to contact them"

A former resident was arrested Friday for allegedly using the popular website MySpace to lure an underage girl into having sex with him on three separate occasions, according to police. via The Citizen

A new Microsoft patent application has some interesting statements within it about blogs. via Seobythesea.com

"On the Web, you can get an immediate response"

Scripts by Marshall Herskovitz, the Emmy award-winning writer and producer, have drawn millions of viewers to movie theaters and television sets over the past two decades. via Times Daily

He was the first blogger allowed to cover a White House press briefing, and now Washingtonian magazine editor-at-large Garrett M. Graff is the author of "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race ... via Popular Mechanics