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"He had basically tweaked the beat and had the exact hook on (his version). We've had the song on our page for months."

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" Soulja Boy has hit back at claims his song "Swag" plagiarizes a track by the Ohio Boyz, insisting he has no idea who ... via 95.7 The Beat

"It's hard to know who they're contacting online."

Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter came to Jeffersonville yesterday to urge support for legislation to make it illegal for a convicted sex offender to use social networking Web sites frequented by children, ... via The Courier-Journal

"Everybody could agree that this was hurtful speech"

Three teenagers who called a teacher a pedophile on a Facebook page reached a settlement in their federal lawsuit against the school district that suspended them, attorneys in the case said Thursday. via Nbc4i.com

"It's a natural extension for us to now offer them an aggregated channel where they can be in control of their own image."

At Celebrity.MySpace.com, consumers will find entertainment culture and related news, blogs, videos, and events contributed by both users and celebs. via MediaPost Publications

Find out in less than 3 minutes what online photo sharing is all about. Lee and Sachi Lefever have done it again as they have just published a new short and cool video clip explaining to the non-tech crowd what online photo sharing is, why you'd want ot use it and how to move your first online photo sharing steps. Photo credit: Lee and Sachi Lefever - CommonCraft Show Sharing your photos online has recently become not just a techno-fad of those early power adopters of all things Internet, but an increasing sheer necessity for everyone owning a digital photo camera, as the number of shots taken and the cost of going to traditional prints make the traditional approach a disaster in terms of costs and manageability. You live now in an age where sharing and collaborating are at the heart of all successful activities. Even if you work in a very traditional environment, you can't avoid noticing how much more sharing and cooperation is being supported around you, as both in the private and professional spheres, sharing is always a path to enhanced collaboration and deeper, more reliable and trusted relationships. Here in a simple and plain words short video, Lee Lefever, explains what online photo sharing is, why you would want to consider it, what are the benefits of using it and which online photo sharing tools you can use to get your hands dirty right now:

"Cyber-criminals go where opportunity lies and take advantage of any and all vulnerabilities"

The latest Internet Security Outlook Report issued today by CA, Inc. forewarns that online gamers, social networks and high-profile events like the U.S. presidential election and the Beijing Olympics are among ... via TMCnet

Some students are planning to walk out of Eden Prairie High School Thursday morning.

They plan to protest after school officials discplined students allegedly seen partying with alcohol in Internet photos.

School officials say 42 students were interviewed and 13 face some discipline over the pictures.

The party photos were seen on the Facebook social networking site.

Some students think administrators went too far with the discipline, which includes suspensions from sports and other activities. Read more

"Many news outlets declined to publish the parents' name, out of consideration for their teenage daughter. I call bullsh--, as do many other outraged news-readers. Other blogs and comments on news threads have outed these parents, as have I."

Death ... Tina Meier holds pictures of her daughter Megan who took her own life in 2006 / AP THE woman linked to the suicide of a 13-year-old girl who was tormented through MySpace could be charged with fraud ... via News.com.au

"It is interesting to see that some of the most popular networking sites turn out to be some of the worst performers"

Research from the leading website monitoring company has shown that Web 2.0 sites often lag behind other commercial sites in performance - they are often slow to open or fail to load properly. via PR-inside.com

"If the sites are listing themselves on search engines like Google, it can slow down the process"

The Internet is a graveyard - so to speak. Littered all across the World Wide Web are thousands of abandoned and neglected Web sites, providing outdated information and taking up space - somewhere. via The Tuttle Times

"Each of them will manage. They don't need me."

Barry Diller, the media mogul who runs the Internet conglomerate IAC, told investors Tuesday that after the company spins off four divisions, he would stay involved in the management of the restructured IAC, ... via BusinessWeek

"I expect Yahoo's implementation to be a major influence in encouraging OpenID 2 adoption"

Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites. via PC World

"Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"

When it comes to music, the web can be like a giant megaphone that ratchets up the decibel level of buzz to deafening proportions.It's a bumptious noise increasingly sounded online by the blogosphere and ... via The Canadian Press

What makes great teams be such? Is it a matter of coincidental matters that some teams perform systematically above average or being a high performance team is due to specific traits of those that make the team up? Photo credit: John Konuadeas Ken Thompson, with whom I have co-authored the Bioteaming Manifesto, has really gotten this recipe under control. Great high performing teams leverage strong shared beliefs and goals among other key characteristics to perform systematically above others. Generally, high performance collaboration teams have very strong motivation for what they do and for the end result that their work produces. They deeply share a common set of beliefs and support each other under all circumstances. But which are the unique characterizing beliefs so vital to the smooth and efficient performance of this new popular animal which is the small work team? Ken Thompson, author of the breakthrough Bioteaming Manifesto, has nailed this belief set down and provides an academic, but very punctual and precise roundup on its makeup. If you are into growing your first extended collaboration team, I strongly suggest you look into this and take the words in it as rare and precious advice. In my personal experience, the great teams I have worked in, even in very recent times, have all shared, often very openly, the set of common beliefs that Ken has identified so well. Here the details:

Teen Sentenced For Making Threats On MySpace Published Date: 01-09-2008 01:12 PM CT A Minnesota teenager will serve 100 hours of community service for using another student's MySpace page to threaten students ... via KEYC