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Auckland, Oct 31 : A 16-year-old student from an Auckland school was stabbed in a public fight that was organised through the social networking website Facebook.

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It may be a little safer to log into Facebook at coffee shops again. A student at the University of Iceland has programmed a potential antidote to Firesheep, a hacking tool that can access social networking accounts over unsecured WiFi networks.

Google Inc. spent at least $1.6 billion on a streak of relatively small individual acquisitions during the first three quarters of this year, according to a regulatory filing made by the company Friday.

Tickets agencies are struggling to cope with the “sheer volume” of Take That fans trying to buy tickets for their tour.

The social networking phenomenon has nowhere to go but up as computer use becomes more mobile, according to leading figures in the development of the popular sites Facebook and Twitter.

Zynga makes several popular games for Facebook, among them the almost omnipresent Farmville.

Yahoo Inc. is turning to a former Internet sharpshooter at News Corp.’s media empire to fill a big hole on its management team.

The most popular couple on XTube has the balls to go into publishing. Will the millions of online views translate to hard copies or fall flaccid? It’s up to Cole and Hunter to prove they really deserve to be called the Maverick Men.

Popular Facebook game “Pet Society” lets players decorate a virtual apartment and clothe a virtual pet.

What are P2P and open infrastructures? Can open knowledge and peer production subvert the economic system of physical production? Is there a chance for the “society of openness” to ever come of age? Robin Good interviewed the P2P Foundation evangelist and founder Michel Bauwens to find out.

Photo credit: itestro

With the visual aid of a very in-depth mindmap entitled “Everything Open and Free“, Michel thoroughly touches base on the eight core processes representing the cycle of reproduction and growth of openness inside societies:

1. Aspects of Openness: the demand for open access, spontaneous participation, transparency, full shareability and ‘changeability’ of the common material. All these represent new social expectations and are key ingredients of the Commons-based peer production.

2. Enablers of Openness: social charters that determine the boundary conditions of the open communities and which define the minimal conditions for openness to be recognized; open code, open licenses, and open standards; as well as the basic conditions which are open access and open data.

3. Infrastructures of Openness: infrastructures in which enablers of openness are embedded. Open platforms, both virtual and physical, to produce in a open way: open collaborative technical platforms, open places where to connect local production with global open design communities, open media and communication infrastructures, open and free software, knowledge and scientific data.

4. Open Practices: all the preceding enablers of openness foster the engagement in open practices, especially open design and open manufacturing, but also free currencies and new forms of sharing (ownership).

5. Open Domains of Practice: embedded in topical domains, such as education and science, where these practices are contextualized and made real to finally result in all kinds of Open Products.

6. Open Products: actual ’social artifacts’ like the Apache server, the Linux operating system, etc…

7. Open Movements: new social movements, dedicated to increasing ‘openness’, tackling the social awareness concerning this shift, strengthening and increasing the numbers of people who see this as a new mode of life and ethical ideal and as their default social practice.

8. Open Consciousness: all the efforts devoted to change subjectivities and how to relate to each other, reinforcing new iterations of the Open Cycle.

Here is the full video interview (with a full text transcription):

Australian model MIRANDA KERR is urging fans to log off social-networking sites for one day to raise awareness for autism charities.

The social networking site Twitter is seen on a computer in Westminster Abbey in London, England, March 2009.

Labour MP for Bristol East Kerry McCarthy has been given a police caution after illegally revealing election results online.

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