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By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent Published: April 30, 2008, 16:55 Cairo: Apparently unfazed by the detention of some bloggers last month, Egyptian youth are spearheading a campaign for a general strike on ... via Gulfnews

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“Rather than being considered as contrarians, this group should be regarded as the precursors of what is to come”

Despite the huge growth in new applications such as Internet video and social networking, most consumers indicate the main reason for accessing the Internet is to use e-mail and gather information, according to ... via Government Technology

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Police have arrested a 21-year-old Gadsden man on charges that he raped a 14-year-old South Carolina girl he met on MySpace. via WLOX

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Police are looking for a man who allegedly offered a plane ticket and a break into showbusiness through his MySpace page to lure a 15-year-old girl from California to South Florida. via Floridatoday.com

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“This partnership adds tremendous value to advertisers working with ScanScout”

' Some online videos spread like viruses all by themselves. Others need a little push. via Adotas

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“Finally, immediate gratification at its finest. It's the easiest mobile application to use for sharing ALL four media types. You don't have to know HTML, calculus, 15-step combinations, or have any programming skills.”

PRESS RELEASE CELLSPIN SOFT, INC. ************************** CellSpin launches the first MySpace and Facebook instant mobile posting application for audio, video, photos and text on 300+ phones worldwide ... via SooToday

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“She can't ever see Blake again for her own good. If Amy wants to start over she needs to bury her past.”

Amy Winehouse is set to divorce her imprisoned husband and "start over" with a new lover, it has been claimed. via The West Australian

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A New York woman is accused of developing an online relationship with a 15-year-old boy, then traveling to Eau Claire with plans to have sex with him. via The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

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“In a way it really keeps us up to the mark”

A man displays a Nonomars solar backpack equipped with a 5V/1000mA Lithium battery to power a mobile phone, PDA and MP3 player. via The Epoch Times

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“I don't want to have to worry about all the different online scandals and problems”

Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as ... via ABC News

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“Project Playlist also has begun optimizing its site for use on iPhones and iPods”

Nine major record labels filed suit against an online music provider on Monday, accusing Project Playlist of a "massive infringement" of their copyrights to the songs of artists such as U2 and Gwen Stefani. via XtraMSN Real Estate

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“On MySpace, we actually filter and take down content (without licensing)”

You're sitting at home online and suddenly you get an irresistible urge. You absolutely have to belt out R. Kelly's 'I Believe I Can Fly' and share it with the world.

You now have that ability, thanks to the new MySpace Karaoke, to be launched Tuesday by the social networking site.

MySpace Karaoke (ksolo.myspace.com) debuts nearly two years after Fox Interactive, a division of News Corp., which owns MySpace, purchased the karaoke site kSolo.com. The combination of MySpace and kSolo allows users to upload audio recordings of them singing everything from R. Kelly to Richie Valens to their profile page. Read more

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“Listening is a powerful method to retain the meaning of the story and to turn people on to the concept of well-chosen words”

This undated photo provided by Creative Labs shows the ZEN Stone Plus MP3 player with built-in speaker and display. via Buffalo News

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A CYCLIST who fell from his bike has died in hospital, it emerged today. The 55-year-old man from Bury St Edmunds fell off his bike while cycling on a roundabout leading on to the A14 at Tut Hill, Fornham All ... via Ipswich Evening Star

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Cyril Daniels: friends pay tribute with T-shirt made in his honour. Friends of a Maple Cross teenager who died this month have come up with a novel way to remember him - by printing more than 500 T-shirts ... via This Is Hertfordshire

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“If consumers are talking to each other about your brand, you should participate in that conversation and have a good story to tell.”

Most afternoons, the Internet in Sarah Chambers' office at iFractal in Philadelphia crashes and leaves her cyber-stranded without e-mail or online communication with clients. via The Seattle Times

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“Miss you tuns (sic) Mindy!! Tomorrows Saturday! YAY”

More than 25 people wished Mindy Erickson a happy birthday Dec. 20, 2007, a tally large enough to make any 19-year-old girl blush. via WisInfo

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Yahoo Inc plans to make its Web site a social hub by hosting applications from other online services, part of the Internet pioneer s effort to spawn more advertising opportunities. via The Taipei Times

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A few ways social networkers can help protect their privacy: _ Provide enough information for your friends to be able to identify you - but not so much that someone could use information to steal your identity. via StarTribune

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They are friends, fellow Michigan Democrats and, after moving to Los Angeles, die-hard Dodger fans. via San Jose Mercury News

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“They like to reminisce and have a good time. They come to share stories among themselves and with the community.”

MANITOWOC - You couldn't blame Earl Johnson if he wanted to stay in Thaxton, Miss., this week. via WisInfo

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“RIP travis & cristina. Why is this happening again?”

Two recent Coppell High School graduates who were home from college died within hours of each other Friday morning, sending this small community into mourning over a tragic double loss. via Denton Record-Chronicle

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“It's really important to us that we show up in those search results near the top because it draws an awful lot of traffic”

Have you Googled yourself lately? Do you know what people are saying about you on the Internet? Managing your Google reputation can help you avoid mistakes that can cost you a job. via KVAL-TV Eugene

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"In the past, Facebook has prospered because it created a comfortable environment, in which users could feel safe sharing information. via Flying Hamster

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An Israeli soldier has been jailed for 19 days for putting a picture taken on base up on Facebook. via Digital Trends

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“Do you really want Facebook to manage it for you in the outside world, or do you want to do it yourself so you have control?”

News WEB 2.0 - Firms Getting Blind-Sided By Social Networking By James Niccolai Still thinking about building a social-networking site for your employees? Sure they haven't started without you? Check Facebook, ... via CIO

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Yahoo's CTO Ari Balogh and Chief Architect Neal Sample filled in a few more details today around their new Yahoo Open Strategy . via TechCrunch

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A WORKER has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after some palettes fell on top of him in a warehouse. via Ipswich Evening Star

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Posted on Apr 25, 2008 at 6:33 UK time in For Immediate Release Content summary: Dan York and Sallie Goetsch are your guest co-hosts; NewComm Forum, including an audio segment from Shel; Twitter outage; ... via Neville Hobson

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“This time it's for real, Everyone dies, April 18, 2008.”

St. Joseph County prosecutors Thursday said they have detained a Penn High School student on charges that he was planning a Columbine-like mass murder at the school. via WSBT

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Not really, of course, but Kyte 's naughty word protection TM seems to think so.

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With more than 69 million users, Facebook is primed to become one of the most widely used unified communications platforms, particularly as the social networking site adds chat functionality this month, ...

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Join our Facebook Group Connect to CFRB and other listeners. All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. via CFRB

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This year's Launchpad at Web 2.0 Expo SF features six new Web 2.0 startups that have captured our interest and attention: Here's a brief description of each of these cool new companies: Acquia is an open source ... via O'Reilly Radar

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“With the information we have received, we will be able to strike a major blow against the pedophile network acting in the country”

Felix Ximenes, Google's chief flack in brazil, yesterday gave the Brazilian government DVDs containing information on 3,261 allegedly child-lusting users of its social network Orkut. via ValleyWag

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“The MySpace Application Gallery enables the most meaningful and diverse online experience available on the Internet to date”

And now for your daily dose of minor social-networking developer application announcements: MySpace.com announced on Thursday that the "application gallery" for its developer platform has made its official ... via CNET News.com

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“This is just the tip of the iceberg”

Yahoo took the wraps off of its Open Strategy on Thursday at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. via ZDNet

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“If you find that in a child's or student's writing, that's an opportunity to address the differences between formal and informal writing. They learn to make the distinction ... just as they learn not to use slang terms in formal writing.”

The Pew Internet and American Life Project, in a study released Thursday, also found that teens who keep blogs or use social-networking sites like Facebook or News Corp.'s MySpace have a greater tendency to ... via ABC News

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“The Sonar Dashboard is our way of addressing the problems of expertise location and contact finding, which are pretty much universal among all large enterprises”

With social networking sites becoming more and more popular for business users, British company Trampoline Systems has released a new program it hopes will become the Facebook for the enterprise. via Infoworld

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John Colley, managing director of security skills body 2 claims companies will have to contend with increasing amounts of legislation around IT security. via ZDNet UK News

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“With the information we have received, we will be able to strike a major blow against the pedophile network acting in the country”

Google's Brazilian subsidiary on Wednesday handed over information on more than 3,000 of its users to a Brazilian Senate panel investigating pedophilia. via Press-Enterprise

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“But there wasn't anything created typically for them.”

GetBack Media, a social network from the founders of DVD company Shout! Factory that's geared for people over age 35, is set to launch Wednesday stocked with music and TV content. via Hollywood Reporter

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“The power used by the fan is proportional to the cube of the fan speed, so if you want to double the fan speed you have to use eight times the power”

IBM has designed a new type of rack-mount server specifically for companies running heavily trafficked "Web 2.0" sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company announced Wednesday. via PC World

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“Social networking sites are soft targets for criminals to spoof as their pages are trusted by netizens ”

BANGALORE, INDIA: If you belong to the generation of net savvy Indians , beware of browsing social networking sites for long as your PC or laptop could easily fall prey to cyber attacks from hackers . via CIOL

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NBC News and msnbc.com have entered a collaboration with MySpace to supply the social network with political coverage of the US presidential election campaigns. via Journalism.co.uk

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ZYB, a service that lets you backup your mobile phone contact and access them on the Web, has branched out and made a company purchase. via Digital-Lifestyles

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Google has a social network: orkut , but it's only successful in Brazil and India, without gaining too much traction in the US. via Google Operating System

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“The health care industry seems to be lagging behind other industries.”

Suzanne Kreuziger is a registered nurse who uses e-mail almost exclusively to communicate with friends. via WSLS

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“We want to extend Photobucket's relevance for our users”

Photobucket plans to release an API on Tuesday that will allow external developers to create applications that include content and functions from the photo- and video-sharing Web site. via PC World

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“If I wanted to be anywhere in the Web 2.0 economy, I'd want to be on the enterprise side”

GM is among companies showing a keen interest in Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is set to be embraced by Enterprise 2.0 as businesses prepare to spend nearly $5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools. via World Edition

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“This is an amazing opportunity to help brands reach their target audiences and leverage the 'viralocity' of our ever-expanding global community.”

Social network MySpace has promoted Jeff Berman to president of sales and marketing, a new post. via PROMO Magazine

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“The 2008 election is proving to be the most youth- and technology-driven race in history, and MySpace is a significant forum for political discussion today”

Social network MySpace might've chosen MTV as its media partner for the 2008 presidential primaries, but on Tuesday it'll be launching an election news hub in conjunction with the more traditional NBC News and ... via CNET News.com

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“Which of the following technology tools do you believe will be most useful in your firm's recruiting efforts in the next three years?”

Job seekers should tap into online networking sites to help hunt down potential employers, new surveys suggest. via Canada.com

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News By Juan Carlos Perez MySpace is testing what it calls a new advertising platform designed to let marketers build and manage profiles for their brands in the social-networking site, the News Corp. via CIO

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MySpace is promoting Jeff Berman from EVP-marketing and content to the new post of president of sales and marketing. via PaidContent.org

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A SHIP had to be towed by a lifeboat after it ran aground five miles off the coast of Harwich. via East Anglian Daily Times

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“Organizations now understand the value of collaborating using public consumer tools like Facebook. We find many such organizations that leverage the free infrastructure provided by consumer services in order to complete tasks at work”

Greater Manchester Police has become the first UK police force to exploit social networking site Facebook to help crack crime. via Datamonitor ComputerWire

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