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An Amsterdam teenager has been arrested for allegedly hacking into other Habbo Hotel users? accounts and stealing €4000 worth of virtual furniture. Four other teenagers have been questioned for apparently moving the furniture into their rooms. It?s not clear whether the arrest is based more on hacking, the theft of virtual goods, or a combination of the two. -
1voteA team led by Carlos Guestrin, an assistant professor of computer science and machine learning, scanned about 45,000 blogs and ran them through an algorithm that measures how information propagates. (This is an example of blog research focused on filter, "A-list" blogs.)
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2voteMs. Hargittai says the results show that online social networks evoke real-world communities and demographics. “Online actions and interactions cannot be seen as tabula rasa activities, independent of existing offline identities,” she writes. “Rather, constraints on one’s everyday life are reflected in online behavior, thereby limiting—for some more than others—the extent to which students from different backgrounds may interact with students not like themselves.”
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1voteResearchers from New Mexico and Vancouver found that once players had an established relationship of trust based on many interactions — once, in effect, the two joined the same clique — they were willing to overlook four or five selfish violations in a row without cutting a friend off. They cut strangers off after a single violation.
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1voteOne hallmark of the new site will be the ability of users to “remix” content posted to Pronetos by others (with everyone involved getting proper credit, one hopes), creating new, custom publications that Pronetos will then market, with all editors and authors sharing in any revenues.
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1voteThe Atlanta teens are part of a group called HOTGIRLS (Helping Our Teen Girls In Real Life Situations). Although rap is often blamed for promoting degrading images of women, HOTGIRLS uses rap music to start conversations with girls about the challenges they face growing up.
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