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AOL cracks open door to new Project Phoenix e-mail

You've still got mail - but AOL is redesigning it from the ground up to be faster and easier to use.

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created Nov 14, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Cyber crooks out for LinkedIn members' bank accounts

Cisco on Monday warned that crooks have inundated LinkedIn with emails crafted to trick members of the career-oriented social networking service into downloading software that loots bank accounts.

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created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Career networking service LinkedIn buys mSpoke

LinkedIn, the social networking service for business professionals, said Wednesday it is buying a startup specializing in digging valuable information from mountains of digital data.

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created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft adds Facebook to Outlook

Microsoft added Facebook to Outlook on Tuesday, giving users of its popular email program the ability to view status updates, pictures and wall posts from their friends on the social network.

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created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Gays more frequent blog readers, social network users

Gays and lesbians are more frequent blog readers than their heterosexual counterparts and are more likely to be members of a social network, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

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created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Divorce lawyers: Facebook tops in online evidence

(AP) -- Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.

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created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Website that rates people triggers controversy

Peter Kazanjy, a little-known San Francisco entrepreneur, has launched a controversial new Web site that overnight has turned him into a very public and not very popular figure.

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created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

When tweets can make you a jailbird

(AP) -- Maxi Sopo was having so much fun "living in paradise" in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor ...

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created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 12

Microsoft to pull Facebook, MySpace into Outlook

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is taking another step toward turning Outlook, its desktop e-mail program, into a hub for information from popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

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created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Handling emergencies online

Online social networking sites could solve many problems plaguing information dissemination and communications when disaster strikes, according to a report from US researchers in a recent issue of the International Journal of ...

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created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook blocks social network 'suicide' website

Facebook said Monday that it is blocking a website called "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" that helps users delete their social network profiles.

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created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Twitter links to LinkedIn

Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website.

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Affluent and urban drawn to online social networks: Nielsen

Market-tracker Nielsen reported on Friday that the ranks of US online social network users continue to grow, with cyber communities tending to attract people who are affluent and urban.

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created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

LinkedIn connects with ex-Yahoo exec as new CEO

(AP) -- After six months of grooming, LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo Inc. executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job running the Internet's largest site devoted to professional networking.

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created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Americans spending more time on social networks: study

The number of minutes Americans spent on social networking sites nearly doubled in the past year with Facebook and Twitter enjoying explosive growth, according to a new study.

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created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0