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NEW YORK - The social networking site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after an attorney general alleged that the Web site essentially stole the identities of some 60 million Internet users.
Get your pocket change ready: the Salvation Army expects to kick off its annual holiday bell ringing on Friday with the help of the world's tallest red kettle in downtown Detroit.
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason announced that three Ohio Department of Transportation officials and five ODOT vendors were indicted on corruption charges for using a wide-variety of scams to illegally steer ODOT contracts and business to friends and associates from 2000 to 2007.
Dallas Mavericks players, Mavs owner Mark Cuban and Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert got the voting started today for the upcoming 2010 NBA All-Star game, which will be played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on Feb. 14.
A group is recommending the measure to prevent swine flu.
Photo by Flickr user rleigh Phillyist's quick-picks for your evening agenda. Maryland rockers The Dangerous Summer and North Carolina's Mercy Mercedes will be doing an emo-riffic double bill at the Troc (1003 Arch St.) balcony bar. Between the Trees ( MySpace ) and Single File ( MySpace ) will also perform. 7 p.m., all ages, $12 . Folk-rockers The Bridge ( MySpace ) and progressive bluegrass ...
Hundreds of Facebook groups were turned into zombies on Tuesday in an attempt to display just how vulnerable social networkers can be. Using a design flaw in Facebook's groups feature, a group called Control Your Info found Facebook groups where the administrator had stepped down, joined the group, claimed the vacant administrator spot (which is open to any group member when the administrator ...
Blogging and stuff sharing service Posterous.com now publishes real-time PubSubHubbbub feeds for every site in its domain, the company announced yesterday in a blog post about a number of major revisions to the site. That means that real-time savvy content aggregators will receive Posterous content almost instantly after its published, instead of waiting as much as half an hour to poll the site ...
Beginning in June 2010, Drury University's department of communication will offer a certification course for social media, the first of its kind at any higher education institution in the four-state region, a Drury news release said.
Don't be surprised if MySpace experiences a big traffic spike on Monday, November 16th. The social network intends to host a live stream of red carpet arrivals at the world premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon . In one sense, this could have been something of a cheap trick; it's a good bet that boatloads of young girls would tune in even if they could only catch a glimpse of Robert Pattinson ...
Even David Beckham might not want the publicity, the notoriety, that has the United States fixed on Elizabeth Ann Lambert, a women's college soccer player.
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Connecticut native Joseph Young Jr. is turning his graphic novel, based in Hartford, into a full-length movie
Palo Alto Networks, an enterprise firewall provider, has released their Application Usage and Risk Report for Fall 2009. The biyearly report, which looks at application usage on 200 different enterprise networks around the world, found a dramatic increase in social media usage inside the enterprise. Since their last report just 6 months ago, Palo Alto Networks found that Twitter session use grew ...
The film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” continues to take over MySpace . Last month, the first “New Moon” trailer premiered on MySpace, and the social site also served as home base for the “New Moon” soundtrack . On November 16 at 6:00 PM PT, MySpace will stream the red carpet arrivals for the film’s world premiere. The program will feature interviews with celebrities and stars from the film ...
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance.
DE PERE St. Norbert College will bid farewell to its unofficial campus mascot, an Albino squirrel, with a memorial service at 4 p.m. today.
Teacher Greg Van Vooris from the "Save Mr V" group on Facebook Following the suspension of a Bronx English teacher who assigned 11th graders a short story about tragic masturbation attempts , students have defended the instructor while adults have expressed skepticism over his decision. Louella Hatch, whose grandson attends the Bronx School of Law and Finance, is one of the adults who objects to ...
DANVERS, Mass., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts high school principal said he banned the word "meep" because it was being used to disrupt school.
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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - A Cleveland firefighter in treatment after he was arrested for drunk driving and suspected pot possession.
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