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Smiling on Facebook costs Canadian her insurance
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 2:08 pm ET
Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.
Salesforce To Let Companies Chatter Away
Linux - Fri Nov 20, 3:16 pm ET
Salesforce.com is going the way of Facebook and Twitter with a reportedly secure private social networking application called Chatter that companies are supposed to use internally so their people can “collaborate” in real-time, but potentially the techzoid equivalent of the old-fashioned water cooler. In a statement trying to explain Chatter’s aetiology, CEO Marc Benioff said, “Why do I know ...
FiLife.com Launches Question and Answer Platform, Only Site to Offer Social Networking Centered on Personal Finance ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Nov 19, 9:00 am ET
FiLife.com , one of the fastest growing personal finance sites and a joint venture of Dow Jones and IAC , today introduced a question and answer platform and two-way API that allows users to tap into the expertise of seasoned financial advisors and the broader personal finance community of individuals who face similar challenges with their 401Ks, credit cards, mortgages and other financial issues.
Rippol Launches Video Discovery Service
socalTech.com - Fri Nov 20, 5:18 pm ET
San Diego-based Rippol, a new startup looking to help people discovery and find online videos, is launching today at the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. The new site uses social networking features, including links to Facebook and Twitter, to help users find and discover video based on information from friends and family. Rippol said its algorithm--which is it billing the ...
Group uses social-networking site to form nonprofit, send care packages to troops
This Week Gahanna - Wed Nov 18, 2:38 pm ET
Service people stationed in other countries soon will receive packages from Gahanna, thanks to local people who formed a group on Facebook.
Microsoft To Offer Free Xbox Live Weekends To Silver Members
Gamasutra - Fri Nov 20, 12:21 pm ET
Starting this weekend and in the days ahead, Microsoft will offer free Xbox Live Gold services to Silver members on the weekends, giving them a chance to try out recently-launched features. New social networking features like Twitter and Facebook just launched on Xbox Live on November 17, and Silver members will be able to try them in addition to the online multiplayer normally only available to ...
The Business Use of Social Networking
IT-Analysis - Wed Nov 18, 10:07 am ET
There is untapped business potential in using social networks. The consumer world has enthusiastically adopted such tools as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter but the uptake within organisations has been sluggish.
Attack on Calabasas boy probed for tie to Facebook group
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour 14 minutes ago
L.A. County sheriff's detectives are investigating Friday's beating of a 12-year-old as possibly being tied to a message targeting redheads. Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old middle school boy in Calabasas who may have been targeted after a Facebook group urged students to beat up redheads, a sheriff's official said Saturday.
Ektron to Assist Customers in Defining Successful Social Networking and Web Content Management Strategies
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Nov 19, 11:59 am ET
NASHUA, N.H.----Ektron Inc., a market leader in enterprise Web content management and social software, today announced the launch of a social media strategy practice. Ektron’s unique combination of Web content management, social software and strategy will offer its customers a complete social solution, both internally for enterprises and externally for communities.
Twitter Sales Top $4 Million; Ad Business Planned (Update1)
Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 2:56 pm ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, is generating sales of more than $4 million a year.
Phishing Scams Edge Into Social Networks
Enterprise Security Today - Sat Nov 21, 3:07 am ET
The report, titled "No, Your Social Networking 'Friend' Isn't Really in Trouble Overseas," describes the scam.
Social networking media enhances your job search
New Hampshire Business Review - Wed Nov 18, 5:58 pm ET
Editor's note: This is the third article in a series focusing on the job-search and application process. The days of simply answering a help wanted ad in the newspaper with a faceless resume to find a new job are long gone. And e-mailing your information to a Web site isn't enough anymore, either.
Johnson County schools ban social networking sites
WTHR Indianapolis - Tue Nov 17, 3:59 pm ET
Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are all easy and instant ways to keep in touch, but they've all been banned in the classroom.
Social networking played big role in WCSA election
The Transcript - Wed Nov 18, 10:59 pm ET
On Nov. 11, the executive officers for the next calendar year were elected. Kyle Herman was elected as president of WCSA, and Sharif Kronemer was elected as vice president. The pair ran against Spencer Meads and Tim Carney.
MySpace to Feature 'New Moon' Takeover Ads
Mediaweek - Thu Nov 19, 10:57 pm ET
The News Corp.-owned social networking site is set to roll out a new, highly intrusive homepage takeover ad for The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Dragnet via Facebook? Medina police use online tool to nab outlaws
The Medina Sun - Thu Nov 19, 10:29 am ET
On a planet of a billion watching eyes, via Facebook and other social-networking services, there is no hiding.
Mplayit Launches Newest App Store on Facebook
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Nov 19, 12:59 pm ET
Mplayit , the new online destination that seeks to transform the mobile content discovery experience, today unveiled its revolutionary "playable" app store on Facebook. The social networking features will help to build mobile app discovery among consumers in a way that can potentially challenge the App Store.
Illegal immigrant flees before arrest
NBC 2 Fort Myers - Fri Nov 20, 6:27 pm ET
The NBC2 Investigators find an illegal immigrant wanted for killing a Naples mother of two can be found smiling on a social networking site.
Lifetime Brands Brings Its Cooking, Entertaining and Home Décor Expertise To Social Networking Sites
PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 3:00 pm ET
Informational pages launching on Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and Flicker
Oddball gifts for techies
MSNBC - Fri Nov 20, 10:18 am ET
You know what to get your book-loving dad and social-networking sister, but what about that seriously geeky pal? PC World’s found gifts even geeks who have everything would like.

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