Social Networking

Power.com aims to become a one-stop social networking portal

MySpace boasting leads to tax woes for partiers

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A group of college students who boasted about their keg parties on a social networking site fought with state tax officials at a hearing over taxes the state says the group owes.

Updated 12/2: Adults are finding the joy of online social networking

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Yahoo's Top 10 Mobile Searches for 2008: Local Info and Social Networking

Yahoo just announced the top 10 search terms on its mobile search engine . The top mobile searches are either for social networks (MySpace, Facebook), or searches for local information (Craigslist, movies, weather). A lot of of mobile searchers were also looking for auctions on eBay. The top 10 is rounded out by searches for more time sensitive topics like the Olympics, AIG, and The Dark ...

New Social Networking Site to Bring Central Florida Boaters Together

BoatBrevard.com announces its official launch and plans to be the best online boater resource and connection site for Central Florida boaters. BoatBrevard.com is Brevard County's newest free online community for Brevard boaters. Find out all the hot spots, islands, and upcoming events. Get involved to connect with other boaters, share your photos, plan get-togethers, share knowledge and ...

Minneapolis can be your snow emergency BFF

Minneapolis is turning to America's two most popular social networking Websites in an effort to reduce the number of curbside towings during snow emergencies.

Wednesday December 03, 2008 - 14:05 EST

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- – Netlog, Europe's leading social networking platform, and Swedish online game developer Jadestone have joined forces to bring innovative new multiplayer games to the Netlog online community.

Woman, 18, admits to stabbing 12-year-old over taunt on MySpace

An 18-year-old woman pleaded guilty today to stabbing her boyfriend's 12-year-old sister in Dover, a crime authorities said was in retaliation for the victim calling the defendant "immature" in a message sent through the social networking Web site MySpace.

Web Users Filtered Info About Mumbai Terror Attacks

Chaotic, disorganized but useful — that's how one user described the flood of information to social networking website Twitter in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks.

Conde Nast to shutter teen site Flip.com

The teen girl social-networking site plans to shut down on December 16, according to an e-mail sent to users.

ArenaFest Aims To Bring Social Networking, Unsigned Bands (And Lacrosse!) To Live Events

Next summer, you and all your so-called friends from Facebook and MySpace will be able to finally meet in a giant arena, where you ill be able to play dating games, compete against each other in Guitar Hero or Lacrosse, listen to live bands, or check out the modeling contest. The event will be called ArenaFest , and will eventually be held at 50 major sports arenas around the country. Next ...

MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe: Mobile Advertising Still "Undeveloped"

There's no doubt that people want to access social networking sites from their phones. Just yesterday, when both Yahoo and AOL released their top searches for mobile, social nets dominated the lists.

MeetingWave Files Geo-Location Social Networking Patent Application

TTB Technologies, LLC, the owner of the online tool for offline networking www.MeetingWave.com , announced that it has filed a patent application entitled “Computer-Based Networking Service and Method and System for Performing the Same” with claims covering methods for facilitating face-to-face meetings comprising determining the location of one or more users and sending meeting notifications ...

The Powerful Promoter Promotes Himself Straight to the Top of Twitter - Matt Bacak Achieves Another Social Networking ...

First Facebook, now Twitter. The Powerful Promoter, Matt Bacak, has taken himself to the top of the social media networks yet again, this time beating out 99.9% of the fastest growing site's members. (PRWeb Dec 2, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/frontier/marketing/prweb1686664.htm

Microsoft Releases Next Wave of Windows Live Services

Microsoft has released a new wave of its Windows Live services that adds more social-networking qualities to its set of online...

UNLV students take tuition protest online

Talk of a tuition increase at UNLV is spreading through inboxes and dominating social networking sites frequented by students.

The warm, yet difficult, business of friendship

So I recently joined Facebook, a social networking Internet site where you connect with old friends and make new ones in the process. For a hipster Internet dude in his 20s (albeit late 20s), joining Facebook this late in life is kind of embarrassing, but it has also prompted an important question.

SNAP Interactive Expects Fourth Quarter Revenue to Exceed $900,000

SNAP Interactive, Inc., a leading provider of online dating applications for social networking websites, today announced that it anticipates revenue for the quarter ending December 31, 2008 to exceed $900,000, yielding the Company's 6th consecutive quarter of revenue growth.

Facebook Gets A Browser

The social networking site is rolling out a system that allows users to browse other sites, turning it slowly into a Web portal.