social Networking

Social networks are the Internet-powered relationship engines of the twenty first century.  Popular sites like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn are all examples.  These services specialize in facilitating connections between people who share similar interests or professional pursuits.

The magic of social networking lies in its interconnected nature which constantly delivers updates on the background and daily activities of users’ “friends.”  Social networks make it easier than ever before to stay in touch with old friends and make new ones, too.

The rapid adoption of social networking services worldwide demonstrates the hunger for human interaction that we all share.  While these services are quickly changing the definition of a “friend,” they are concurrently exciting online marketers with the promise of extremely targeted customer audiences for their products.

Whether for fun, family, or business purposes, social networks are the online rolodexes, resumes, singles bars, career fairs, and watering holes of the digital age.

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• LinkedIn 3.0

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 136
  LinkedIn updates its iPhone app : follows the Facebook app design , adds more communication abilities; http://j.mp/4CRspZ
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• Escaped Inmate Taunts Cops with Facebook Pictures and Status Updates [Oversharers]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 862
  Remember how, in Catch Me If You Can , fugitive Leonardo DiCaprio kept calling Detective Tom Hanks to taunt him? Here is a convicted burglar doing the same thing, in real time on Facebook. Should we celebrate or fear him? Craig Lazie Lynch has been rising to folk hero status after absconding, in early September, ...
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• Finding Your Double

  
  Internet News — Authority: 139
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• George Clooney named most kissable mistletoe hunk

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 29 (ANI): Most American women would like to kiss George Clooney under the mistletoe this year, says end-of-year honours list by Parade magazine.In order to come up with list, the popular U.S. supplement asked readers to vote in a range of quirky categories, including most surprising celebrity split of ...
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• Mp3 Portal

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 182
  Looking for something very similar to mp3va.com, however should be able to have a 5-10 second preview of each song, and a digg style rating for each mp3. would also like to include profile pages for artists, which would include links, blogs, and an area for upcoming shows, with a social networking share link next to ...
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• Mp3 Portal

  
  ScriptLancer Blog — Authority: 176
  Looking for something very similar to mp3va.com, however should be able to have a 5-10 second preview of each song, and a digg style rating for each mp3.would also like to include profile pages for artists, which would include links, blogs, and an area for upcoming shows, with a social networking share link next to ...
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• What does tiffany have to do with missional?

  
  Khanya — Authority: 465
  The Missional Tribe social networking website seems to have been hijacked by spammers, who are starting a new blog every five minutes and swamping it with irrelevant trash about “tiffany” and other such junk. Is anyone in charge there? Is anyone maintaining the site? Does anyone know?
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• The Queen on Real Time Web.

  
  Sliced Bread — Authority:
    LeWeb09  is the major European internet conference and the 09 event was recently held in Paris. The theme, Real Time Web , threw up a plethora of thought provokers, utopian extremists and creative start up predictions. All valuable brain food on the internet melting pot. If you can, find a spare ...
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• call out bad taxi drivers, find parking

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  “Government 2.0” has been a big buzzword of 2009, with thought-leaders like Tim O’Reilly and The Sunlight Foundation showing the way. It’s a movement that pushes public institutions to use technologies that have thrived in the last five years (like social networking and blogging) to foster closer relationships ...
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• New to the Net – What to bookmark

  
  The Broad Brush — Authority: 124
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• Women and the Social Media Grapevine

  
  Marketing Relevance — Authority: 115
  Women outnumber men on social networking sites, AND they influence more than 85% of consumer product purchases. Does your business have a plan to interact with this powerful consumer group (women) in the places they already are?The average family does 8 to 12 loads of laundry a week. How can knowing that help you ...
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• Its Funny Because its True

  
  Womens Post - — Authority: 141
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• Four Groundbreaking Innovations from the 2000s (And One More Life-Changing Event)

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 668
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• What can you do with city data? Call out bad taxi drivers and find parking

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• 7 LinkedIn Strategies For College Seniors

  
  SayCampusLife — Authority: 125
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• Ways To Succeed in Facebook Marketing

  
  Money Critics Money Critics — Authority: 128
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• Tech trends for 2010 - a Netscape moment coming up

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 165
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• BioWares Ray Muzyka on how to make single-player gaming more social

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 766
  The good folks at IncGamers had a chat with one of BioWare s founding medical doctors, Ray Muzyka , about the companys history of classic single-player gaming and its upcoming foray into the world of massively multiplayer with Star Wars: The Old Republic . Muzyka says that the line between solo and collective ...
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• Published In Online Newspaper

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 182
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