Archive for July, 2008

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Google KNOL - “Opportunity Kicks Down the Door”

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Today Google launched their KNOL service. A user contributed knowledge base that can take a huge bite out of for instance Wikipedia.

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You’ve got too much e-mail

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

There's a growing backlash against our growing in-boxes. A new crop of entrepreneurs has sprung up with antidotes -- some of which create more e-mail. It happened with cigarettes.

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NowPublic identifies the web’s most influential in Silicon Valley

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Participatory news network NowPublic announced its second MostPublic Index, identifying the 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco.

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Study: Web sites, open source, social networking at risk

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Open source software makes IBM, Websense half-yearly security trend reports for the first time.

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State reviewing Myspace accounts for sex offenders

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Attorney General Tom Corbett announced Wednesday authorities are reviewing the Myspace.com accounts of 185 Pennsylvania sex offenders to see if they violated terms of their probation or parole by using the ...

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Arrest Made in Murder of Colorado Transgender Woman

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

An arrest has been made in the murder of Angie Zapata , a transgender woman who was beaten to death last week in her home in Greeley, Colorado: "Alan Ray Andrade, 31, was arrested in Thornton on Tuesday and ...

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New Attempt to Regulate Blogs Won’t Work

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The Telegraph tells us this morning that a new regulatory body is about to be set up to police blogs and social network sites.

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FBI Warns of Storm Worm Virus

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center , have received reports of recent spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software, known as malware.

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Volantis Announces the Social Storefront

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Volantis launches the social storefront. What is it? Well it is a more storefront that connects subscribers with social network Facebook .

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RNC launches Obama Facebook parody site

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

' The Republican National Committee stepped up its efforts Tuesday to use social networking technologies that Barack Obama's presidential campaign has effectively embraced in order to criticize the presumptive ...

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Flickr, Library of Congress find something in ‘Common’

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

A collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Internet photo-sharing community Flickr is giving photography enthusiasts a chance to play history detective.

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Polish policemen barred from social networking site

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Poland's national police headquarters has banned officers from using a popular social networking site similar to Facebook because they were spending too much time using it, a newspaper said Monday.

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Facebook hires Mozilla engineer

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Facebook has hired Mozilla technology veteran Mike Schroepfer as a director of engineering, as part of the social network's recent executive shuffle.

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Cellspin for the iPhone: Post and Upload Everywhere at Once

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

We already published about Cellspin, this cool phone application that allows users to publish audio, photo, and text simultaneously to their favorites blogging or social networking websites in a few clicks.

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Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook.