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Finding a mentor via online social communities
Finding a mentor via online social communities from yahoo news / Reuters By Kate Holton Thu Feb 21, 3:44 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) – “Lavenderblu” was a young girl when she got her first taste of domestic violence. After suffering at the hands of her father and witnessing repeated attacks on her mother, she ended…
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Google to sell display ads in Web videos
Google to sell display ads in Web videos found via yahoo news / Reuters Thu Feb 21, 1:35 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) – Web search leader Google Inc plans to start selling ads to appear in Web videos and has signed up 20 customers, as it aims to do for videos what it has…
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Your MySpace Web Browser Is Coming
Article found via digg Your MySpace Web Browser Is Coming readwriteweb.com — Flock, the Mozilla-based social web browser has made the announcement that everyone has been waiting for: they will now integrate with MySpace. Building on the MySpace Developer Platform, Flock will allow users to surf the web with their MySpace friends in their sidebar.…
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AT&T Looking at Internet Filtering
AT&T Looking at Internet Filtering Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:18 AM EST Article found via Newsvine / Associated Press AT&T Inc. is still evaluating whether to examine traffic on its Internet lines to stop illegal sharing of copyright material, its chief executive said Wednesday. CEO Randall Stephenson told a conference at the World Economic Forum…
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Americans more wired, new-media survey finds
Americans more wired, new-media survey finds From yahoo news / Reuters By Gail Schiller NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others,…
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It’s serious if you admit to your relationship on Facebook – and other social networks
From yahoo news / reuters For college students, if it’s Facebook, it’s love By Joanne Kenen Tue Dec 4, 7:20 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For the Facebook generation, love now comes with a drop-down menu. With profiles on the Facebook social networking site (http://www.facebook.com/) almost de rigueur on college campuses, students can define their…
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Google Making Street View Anonymous
Google Making Street View Anonymous from yahoo news / PcWorld Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Fri Nov 30, 2:50 PM ET In the face of ethical concerns, Google is considering changes to its Street View Google Maps feature that would protect the privacy of those it photographs. When Street View is rolled out in Europe,…
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Online Protests force Social Network Facebook to change
Protests force Facebook to change From the BBC News – UK Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked. More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology. When Facebook users shopped online, Beacon told…
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Blog Feeds Provide New Security Threat
How are we going to fix this one? Just keep turing off java, flash and every other cool web service that makes the net great? Blog Feeds Provide New Security Threat
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Download Google Videos As AVI Files
An excellent article and bookmarklet to allow google video files files to be saved as AVIs; very cool, big thanks to google system at blogspot for sharing Download Google Videos As AVI Files If you want to save videos from Google Video and you use Windows, you have the option to download them as GVI…