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Smelling Vs. Social Networking: Kids Prefer The Technology

in a survey, more kids aged 16-22 said they would rather have Facebook than be able to smell.

Harold Camping wrong again: A new 'blah by blah' account of how he spent May 21 false doomsday

Harold Camping, who prematurely sold the idea of a doomsday to gullible millions, is refusing to fade away from news. He is still a hot search topic on the Internet and is still routinely discussed in social networks even after he rolled in the mud and bandied out the most incongruous explanations for his failed May 21st Doomsday prediction

Twitter, TweetDeck $40 million deal - good for Tweeters, bad for TweetDeck users

Twitter's acquisition of third party client TweetDeck for $40 million has caught the attention of social network users because it is good news for Tweeters but not for TweetDeck users though both TweetDeck founder and Twitter CEO have called the acquisition an add-on for Twitter power users.

Windows Mango Follows In Android’s Footsteps With Web Marketplace

Windows details its web-based app store; similar to the one introduced by Google in February.

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President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East: FULL TEXT

Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East, as prepared for delivery.

LinkedIn CEO: This Is Not The Start Of Another Tech Bubble

LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner promises his company's high IPO doesn't mean another tech bubble is on the horizon.

Study: African Americans More Into Twitter Than Whites

A new study from Northwestern found more black college students are into Twitter than whites because of a stronger interest in celebrity and entertainment news.

Facebook opposes California bill on social network privacy settings

Facebook and other social network giants are opposing a new Californian bill, which requires all social network websites to make users' information private by default. A spokesman claims that the bill would be a big threat to their businesses.

LinkedIn IPO price range boosted by 30 percent

Social networking company LinkedIn Corp raised the expected price range of its initial public offering by 30 percent on Tuesday, a sign that investors remain eager to bet on social networking companies.

Social network Viadeo shelves IPO plan

Viadeo, the world's second-biggest social network for professionals behind LinkedIn, is deferring a plan for an initial public offering , preferring instead to focus on growth in emerging markets, its chief executive said.

'Cyber Scout' volunteers to protect King in Thailand

The surging rebellions through internet urging to overthrow the political coup in the middle east has probably motivated the Thai justice ministry to patrol cyberspace in search of anybody violating the kingdom’s strict lese majeste rules, an offence punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

Facebook Ads to Grow by 35 Percent in One Year: Analyst

Wedbush Securities said the Digital Hollywood surveyed respondents are bullish on Facebook advertising growth next year (2012) with median response of up 35 percent while average was up 63 percent.

More parents lenient about young Web use: poll

Despite age restrictions on some social media sites, the number of parents who would allow children 10-12 years old to have a Facebook or MySpace account has doubled in a year, a new survey showed.

Apple Passes Google In Brand Value

Apple is the number one brand in the world according to a report; Facebook is in the top 100 for the first time.

Pepsi's New Vending Machine Meets The Social Network

Even vending machines have become social, thanks to Pepsi's latest invention.

Twitter challenge: Canada election rules face test

A ban on early broadcasting of election results that dates from the 1930s puts Canada on a collision course with social media like Twitter and Facebook, making a scofflaw of anyone who tweets too soon.

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

Physicians Should Create ‘Dual Citizenship’ On Social Media, Researchers Say

Researchers assert that there is an increasing need for physicians to create a healthy distance between their work and home online identities with ubiquitous social media sites like Facebook and Twitter blurring private and professional lines.

UAE To Block Some BlackBerry Services

The United Arab Emirates reportedly plans to stop individuals and small businesses from using certain BlackBerry messaging services, but the government says that no customers will be affected.

Real-time search market worth $11 bln a year: study

Updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other real-time content sites could be worth more than $30 million a day, or nearly $10.9 billion a year, to advertisers, researchers say.

Report: Cyber Criminals Targeted Enterprise, Social Networks, Mobile In 2010

According to a new report from Symantec cyber criminals aimed at big business with targeted attacks.

Twitter experiment proves benefits to professors from personal tweets

A recent novel experiment conducted by an assistant professor in communications at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania found that personal tweets on the social media platform raise the credibility of professors in the eyes of students.

Salesforce.com To Acquire Radian6 for about $326 mln

Salesforce.com said it agreed to acquire Radian6, a social media monitoring platform, for about $326 million in cash and stock deal a move that will help Salesforce to effectively market its cloud-based products.

Real-time, dynamic social networks with Color

A new app has hit the smartphone market aiming to allow users to take and share photos in social networks but there's a twist: the networks you create are with complete strangers.

Washington titled 'most socially networked' city

Washington D.C. has emerged on the top of the 'most socially networked' cities of America. Men's Health has put together a list of 100 cities in a study that rates El Paso as the 'least socially networked'.

What is SCVNGR? (Featured at SXSW, VIDEO included in article)

SCVNGR is essentially a physical location-based communal game that connects social media with the offline world.

Sony may be the second to embrace Facebook in the war against Netflix

Sony Pictures may become the second movie giant to embrace the social networking site Facebook in the ongoing war between the Hollywood film industry and the video rental service Netflix.

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