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Social-networking ban for sex offenders: Bad call?
cNet News — The just-signed Illinois law banning sex offenders from social-networking sites might seem like a good idea to protect children, but it will have virtually no impact on their safety and could wind up making things worse. The law, which was signed Thursday by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, would prevent registered sex offenders in Illinois
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White House using social media to debunk ‘myths’ about healthcare reform
LA Times — As right-wing pundits blanket the airwaves, relentlessly poking holes into every soft and squishy part of the Obama administration’s healthcare reform program, the White House is picking up a different megaphone — the Internet. And it’s doing a bang-up job of getting
Google Adds Social Networking To Personalized Home Page
Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek Google launched a suite of “social gadgets” for iGoogle, including games, shared to-do lists, and video-sharing on YouTube. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is giving people the option of adding social-networking capabilities to iGoogle, potentially expanding the personalized
Delicious Founder Frustrated… “I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo!”
Mashable – Back in 2005 (a long time in the social media world), Yahoo acquired Delicious, the popular social bookmarking website. Both Yahoo and Delicious founder Joshua Schachter had big plans to change the way we share, remember, and discover information on the Internet. Yahoo even promised
Developing a Social Media Strategy 101, Part 1
Search Engine Watch — With the growing popularity of social media, many businesses feel they need to integrate it into their marketing mix, but most aren’t sure where to start or how to develop a plan. Social media is useful for many types of organizations, whether it’s a big brand
Social Media Takes a Hit, Microsoft Fears Linux
PCWorld — While some parts of the world are enjoying summer, a season usually marked by a lack of major news, this week offered some interesting developments nevertheless. Twitter spent the back end of the week fighting off a DOS (denial of service) attack that also targeted fellow social-media
How to use Twitter to improve your shopping experience
cNet News/Webware — Twitter might just seem like a social place to converse with friends, but it’s actually much more. In fact, with the help of some Twitter services that help you either compare prices or the find the right product for any occasion, it has become an appealing shopping tool. So,
FriendFeed Adds A Mob Tear Gas Option With “Disable Comments”
The Washington Post – TechCrunch — Just to follow up on our story from Friday, FriendFeed has now implemented the feature that will allow you to disable comments on individual threads. This move is in response to ours’ and others’ concerns that while FriendFeed’s real-time
Fortune 100 Companies Use Social Media For Marketing
Twitter and other social media strategies have recently captured the attention of the Fortune 100 companies, who are increasingly using the technology for marketing. Social networking, no longer confined to friends and colleagues, has become an important marketing tool for businesses of all sizes, according
Internet Marketing, Social Media and the Power of Viral Marketing
PR-Inside — The jury is still out and the technology is too new to determine exactly how effective it can be as a medium. There are those in the internet marketing field who claim that they can produce guaranteed results with Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and others but these “predictable” techniques
