Archive for March, 2008

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CareerBuilder, Facebook in job ads venture

Monday, March 31st, 2008

"CareerBuilder is spending a considerable amount of money to promote on the Facebook site and the Facebook network, and then we'll have the ability to resell certain units to continue that promotion for our clients"

Internet jobs site CareerBuilder.com is teaming up with Facebook to help clients run job recruiting campaigns within the online social network, the two companies said on Monday. via Reuters

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Family Seeks to Revive Suit Vs MySpace

Monday, March 31st, 2008

"It has a responsibility to (protect) children"

The family of a teenage girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on MySpace.com asked a federal appeals court Monday to revive their lawsuit against the social networking Web site. via KVML

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Facebook girl beaten and shot dead by her father for talking online

Monday, March 31st, 2008

"Saudis live more of a virtual life than a real life. I know people who are involved in online romances with people they have never met in real life."

Comments A leading Saudi preacher believes the Facebook website is a 'door to lust' A woman was beaten up and shot dead by her father for talking online with a man she met on the website Facebook. via Daily Mail

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Dangers of the Internet is focus of teen summit in Dallas

Monday, March 31st, 2008

"If you have inappropriate material on your pages, clean it up because it will affect you moving forward."

By RACHEL SLADE / The Dallas Morning News rslade@dallasnews.com Dallas teenagers and parents crowded the Dallas City Council chambers Saturday to discuss the power of the Internet and how to use MySpace and ... via Dallas Morning News

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Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Mar31 08

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Create your own videoconferencing room, annotate and mark up multimedia files and easily record all of your Skype or other VoIP calls. More juicy stuff as I have new tools also to send and share very large files without using email. All of the above and more in this week collaboration tools Picnic. videoconference_id197665_size485.jpg Photo credit: Sean Nel Here my selected online collaboration picks for this week:
  1. Vawker: Create your own room and have video conferences with your team
  2. Cozimo: Web-based collaboration tool enables you and your team to collaborate on multimedia files in real-time
  3. FileCrunch: Upload and share any file up to 250 MB via a sharing link
  4. Taskbin: Create groups, share tasks, set their priorities, and get notifications for your and other people's tasks
  5. Jajah Buttons Place a button on your website allowing anyone to call you without giving them your phone number
  6. EasyVoipRecorder: Record and export in multiple formats any VoIP conversation
  7. Soashable: Meebo open-souce clone lets you connect to major instant messaging networks
  8. Slick: Mobile instant messenger for Symbian based phones enables you to access ICQ, Yahoo! and AIM
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Verizon Wireless’ is getting more social

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Verizon Wireless' is getting more social Posted: 28-Mar-2008 [Source: Verizon Wireless] [Verizon Wireless announces the launch of MySpace Mobile and the Loopt social-mapping service.] MySpace Mobile: Mobile Web ... via MobileTechNews

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Woman sues over bogus sex-site profile

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

"The plaintiff asserts that this message was itself false in communicating that she was a member of the service and that the profile had been hers in the first place"

A woman who lives somewhere near Dartmouth College is suing an online sex site, claiming it identified her in her area even though a nude photograph purporting to be her was not. via The Citizen

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Pick-up flips over on A14

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The pick-up truck flipped over on the A14 westbound A PICK-UP trick flipped over on the A14 westbound near Ipswich today. via Ipswich Evening Star

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Top 12 Internet Marketing Advertising Destinations for Fairfax County Businesses

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Following up on our quarterly Loudoun Online Advertising reviews, here's a top 12 listing of Fairfax Internet Marketing online local community destinations for business advertising dollars. via Gateway to Loudoun County

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Announcing the integration between Telligent Community Server 2008…

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The official blog of the SharePoint Product Group Syndication RSS 2.0 News © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. via Blah Blah Blog [Ryan Rogers]

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IBM project seeks privacy controls for users

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

"The project aims to provide some technology to address these problems"

Audio IBM project seeks privacy controls for users European Union helping fund effort to protect users of Web 2.0 technologies By John Fontana , Network World , 03/28/2008 A three-year project to infuse ... via Network World on Security

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Dave Stewart, Nokia envision brave new mobile world

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

At first glance, Nokia's Tero Ojanpera and Dave Stewart might seem like an odd pair. via Reuters

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Museums exhibit high-tech appeal

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

"There are about 65,000 objects in our collection but only a small percentage of those are displayed at any time. The Web is a great way for people to see what we have to experience"

Moreover, these institutions are finding that rather than diminishing the number of museum visits, the Web is actually boosting in-person attendance. via The Globe and Mail

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Saturday, March 29th, 2008

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Ivo was right about Facebook

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

One contemporary cultural phenomenon that he was dead right about is Facebook . In 2007, when Facebook was peaking, Ivo started warning that Facebook was way more sinister than it appeared. via Limbicnutrition Weblog