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  1. Added Aug 17, 2008 by dreig
    FOC08 (1): Groups to Communities.
  2. Added Nov 08, 2007 by ablanco and 1 other
    While the big public news for Ning this week is their participation in and support of Google's Open Social platform (will have to save talking about that for another day), yesterday they made a quiet decision which will greatly benefit the educational community: to provide ad-free student networks to K-12 educators.
  3. Added Oct 01, 2007 by fsheahan
    Change.org is a social network for social activism, incorporating nonprofits, politicians, and people across the globe.
  4. Added Sep 19, 2007 by spencech
    # Story Highlights # Freshmen will step onto campuses with a jump-start on their new social lives # Facebook allows them to form friendships before they attend orientation # Students can also find groups of friends based on interests
  5. Added Jul 07, 2007 by aseldow and 2 others
    The following 35 perspectives on online social networking sites can be sorted into different overall categories (or different actors or discourses). As a researcher I certainly do not agree with all of the mentioned perspectives, but some of them do represent the opinions (or prejudices) I hear when I am out giving lectures on social networking to adults. After my list, I propose six overarching categories.
  6. Added Mar 22, 2007 by battis
    Marc Hedlund, founder of the intriguing Wesabe, recently made this interesting observation: One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. [...]
  7. Added Mar 03, 2007 by battis and 1 other
    Geek reporter Annalee Newitz has a nice pair of articles on Wired News this morning about the way that scammers manipulate community voting sites like eBay, Yahoo Stores and Digg. In the first one, Herding the Mob, Newitz describes a variety of techniques used to manipulate rankings [...]
  8. Added Mar 02, 2007 by battis and 3 others
    Create Your Own Social Network for Anything
  9. Added Feb 25, 2007 by battis
    [...] A handful of police departments have used YouTube as a law enforcement tool, putting up videos of suspects and eliciting help from the Internet-using public in identifying them. Specialists say the idea has promise, but it's too soon to tell whether it will have staying power amid constantly evolving technologies. [...]
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