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R&B recording artist Alicia Keys' MySpace page was hacked not once but twice this week, according to Exploit Prevention Labs. The first attack, likely done early in the week, affected visitors viewing virtually any part of Keys' page, Exploit Prevention's Chief Technical Officer Roger Thompson r...
MySpace and Facebook are the clear winners -- so far -- in the social networking wars, but Yahoo has fired an opening salvo in what may be the next heated skirmish: business and employment networking. Yahoo's Kickstart is meant to help college students launch their professional careers. To be sure, ...
Anticipation is building as Google prepares to formally introduce its social networking platform. Called "OpenSocial," it provides tools for developers to create applications and widgets that can be ported to any participating network. Partners that have signed on range from Friendster to Plaxo to S...
Google is getting set to make a splash in the burgeoning social networking space with the introduction on Thursday of OpenSocial. It is rare for Google to be behind the curve of any Internet trend -- much less one that has become nearly mainstream in the last few years. However, it's making up for l...
To mark its second birthday Monday, Meebo unveiled a surprise for its users -- applications for the Meebo platform. With the announcement, the instant messaging site joins social networks such as Facebook and MySpace that have opened up their platform to third-party developers. The first round of ap...
The introduction of the online customer review system on Amazon.com more than seven years ago marked the ascension of the consumer as purchase influencer. This trend has continued, with social media and Web 2.0 tools enabling more buyers to speak out and be heard. Today it can be argued that a consu...
Facebook members can now access the social networking site on the go -- as long as they have a BlackBerry smartphone. Facebook Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and Research In Motion President and Founder Mike Lazaridis demonstrated the new service Wednesday during the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment...
MySpacers who want a little more drama in their lives will be able to get their fill from a new Web series launched on MySpace TV Monday. Sponsored by Ford Motor, "Roommates," an original scripted series, will roll out over the next nine weeks with daily weekday updates on the world's most popular s...
In a move echoing one made by rival Facebook earlier this year, MySpace plans to open its platform to third-party application developers. The wildly popular social networking company owned by News Corp. plans to formalize its relationships with developers and will release a MySpace application progr...
MySpace users will soon be able to chat by phone thanks to a new partnership between Skype and the popular social networking site, the companies announced Wednesday. MySpaceIM with Skype is a new product that integrates MySpace's instant messaging client with Skype's free voice-calling capability us...
Don't look now, but social search is pervasive. It's taking hold in large part because the Web itself is changing. What is social search? Broadly speaking, social search enables the masses to have greater influence on the results of a search, and in so doing, enables better, more interesting and mor...
Google has launched a beta version of video identification technology designed to flag unauthorized content on YouTube. The move follows its implementation of audio fingerprinting software from Audible Magic earlier this year. By filtering out pirated videos, Google aims to further cement YouTube's ...
Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2007 is You. To summarize their lengthy coverage of this topic, it's all "Web 2.0" technology that enables user-empowering Web tools and Web sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, Google Maps, Twitter, Pandora, Last.FM, Digg, and Del.icio.us. These We...
New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has launched an investigation into social networking site Facebook and its claims that it is a "safe" site, the AG's office announced Monday. At issue is the company's alleged failure to adequately respond to complaints from undercover agents working for th...
Hoping to ride the rising mobile Web wave, Fox Interactive Media is offering free mobile access to MySpace and several other sites. The free mobile Web versions of the sites will be supported by advertising instead of user subscription fees. However, the fee-based versions of the sites will remain a...
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