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Law enforcement officials in New York and Texas have extracted $750,000 from social networking site Tagged.com to settle investigations that the company engaged in deceptive email marketing.

Authorities in Texas and New York have reached agreements with a San Francisco social networking site that is accused of raiding its users' e-mail address books and sending deceptive ad messages to the people listed.

The fisherman had just one shot to mark the great white. Captain Bill Chaprales walked to the front of his 22-foot harpoon vessel, raised the 12-foot-long tagging pole, and threw it purposefully onto the back side of the enormous shark, which was 4 to 5 feet below the surface.

Give up control to achieve success in social media campaigns, because in the end, brands really have no choice.

Two California residents have sued social networking site Tagged.com for allegedly duping them into sharing their email contacts and then sending those contacts misleading ads.

Social-networking site Tagged.com has become a target of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the bane of a multitude of customers.

Social-networking site Tagged.com has become a target of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the bane of a multitude of customers.

Chandler, Nathan. "How Tagged Works." 14 July 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. 30 July 2009.

Tagged.com claims it is the third-largest social network in the U.S. in terms of total monthly visits.

Here's a clever idea to get subscribers to your web site: send someone a email purporting that his friends had tagged him in photos, as is done at Facebook and elsewhere, and encourage him to hit a link to see the pics; when he gets to your site, tell him to sign up to see the pictures.

Suing ... New York state Attorney general Andrew Cuomo has said the state will be suing social networking website Tagged.

Turns out our recent story on the spammy social network Tagged.com had a fan - Andrew Cuomo, New York's attorney general.

You open a friendly e-mail from a pal and it says they want to show you photos! But what's really going to happen if you say yes? 7's Hank Phillippi Ryan found: instead of looking at snapshots, you're looking at big trouble! For the scoop on Tagged.com, she's got the 'Real Deal.' You get an e-mail with a friend's name on it that says... "Want to ...

A reporter with the newspaper weighs in today with her own experience on Tagged, the social networking site we reported on a couple of times this past week.

I THOUGHT it was a little strange when I received separate e-mail messages from two people I knew only slightly asking me to click and see their photos on a social networking site called Tagged.

Harsh words from peHUB yesterday about social networking site Tagged . They took an article complaining about invitation spam and drew a line practically putting the company into the deadpool .

SAN FRANCISCO : A social networking Web site launched to compete with MySpace is turning into a spam generator, according to PEHub's Connie Loizos.

When I was introduced to the San Francisco-based social networking startup Tagged.com , it was 2005 and the company, then less than a year old, was differentiating itself from other social networks by limiting its service to pre-teen and teenage users.

As a child, the main point of playing tag was to avoid being tagged. Many people are learning lately that the same thing applies to Tagged.com, a social networking Web site that has made the experience of being tagged anything but fun.

The e-mail came across my screen innocently enough. A former boss, Dinda, whom I hadn't heard from in some time, was sending me pictures through some social-networking outlet called "Tagged." Interesting.