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1. Internet users do have friends

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... "However, we find some evidence that use of social networking services - for example, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn - substitutes for some level of neighborhood involvement." Read the full report here. ...

2. How Smart are Twitter's Investors?

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... Price and Insight Venture Partners last week? With 25 million users, Twitter lags behind the 300 million Facebook friends. Plus, using Twitter requires a different type of person than Facebook or MySpace. ...

3. Employers peek: It's not just YourSpace, you know

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... percent use MySpace. Eleven percent search blogs, while seven percent follow candidates on Twitter. The industries most likely to screen job candidates via social networking sites or online search engines ...

4. Rumor: MySpace to buy iLike for $20 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   MySpace is reportedly in talks to buy iLike for a lucrative $20 million. The music recommendation service - which launched in 2006 - boasts more than 50 million registered users and is the top music application ...

5. MySpace generation too shy for real world

   (Software/Software Features)

   More than a third of young British MySpace users find it easier to talk online than face-to-face. London, UK - More than a third of young British MySpace users find it easier to talk online than face-to-face. ...

6. Facebook membership swells to 250 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... people on Facebook," added Zuckerberg. As TG Daily previously reported, Facebook recently managed to oust MySpace as the reigning US social networking champion. According to ComScore, FaceBook attracted ...

7. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... you want to send out an e-mail, a message to Facebook friends, invite them to our group, place a note or bulletin on your Myspace page, Twitter account, blog or anywhere else you’ll receive “1 entry” for ...

8. MySpace fires 400 employees as ad revenue declines

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   MySpace has responded to declining advertising revenue and a decreased market share by firing 30 percent of its staff. San Francisco (CA) - MySpace has responded to declining advertising revenue and a ...

9. Facebook ousts MySpace as reigning US social networking champion

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Facebook has finally managed to oust MySpace as the reigning US social networking champion. According to ComScore, FaceBook attracted 70.278 million unique US visitors in May, compared to MySpace's 70.237 ...

10. MySpace co-founder stands down

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    News Corporation has confirmed that MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe will be "stepping down" in the near future. However, DeWolfe will continue to advise the company and serve on the board of MySpace ...

11. Conficker worm activated, TrendMicro says

    (Security/Security Features)

    ...  According to the company, the new worm opens port 5114 and serves as HTTP server by broadcasting via SSDP request; it then tries to connect to Myspace.com, msn.com, ebay.com, cnn.com and aol.com. As ...

12. Analysis: Mobile games as Microsoft's new weapon against iPhone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Marketplace for Mobile. Most announced titles so far are either entertainment or social networking apps. New Microsoft-created Facebook and MySpace apps will go live later this month, and in the summer, respectively ...

13. Microsoft kills Encarta: Is society getting dummer?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... Encarta at its former place of respect and glory.Over time, the online generation lost interest in favor of new exciting web phenomenons like Google, Flickr, MySpace and Facebook. Despite being online, ...

14. Social networks a security threat to businesses

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... a plethora of other communication methods, including social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Nielsen Online's article entitled "Social Networking's New Global Footprint," ...

15. YouTube viewers in U.S. exceed 100 million for first time

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Google and Yahoo as the only two websites with more daily hits. Facebook and MySpace fall immediately behind it.  ...

16. A game without a point hits the iPhone and is well worth the wait

    (Software/Software Features)

    Imagine a game where you have to wrap a 3D object with a rope to achieve set coverage before advancing to the next level. Sound stupid? While it sounds very odd on a paper, just like all great ideas ...

17. Mixing Gen Y with big business: It is all or nothing

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... utilizing tools such as blogs, Facebook, Myspace and other sites I am used to sharing my life, my photos, my ideas, and my thoughts with friends. Even though I don’t want to turn my personal blog into ...

18. Warner Music videos removed from YouTube

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... through other websites such as AOL and MySpace Music. Artists will continue to have their music streaming on their own websites as well. There is no indication as to when Warner Music and YouTube may ...

19. Opinion: People still have pen pals and keep in touch via snail mail

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... reasons that websites such as MySpace, Tumblr, and Facebook do so well. It is that same kind of need, that same desire to remain connected which causes individuals to continue sending letters and greeting ...

20. Power.com aims to become a one-stop social networking portal

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... more than likely once you’ve joined one social network you’ll join them all. The majority of individuals use at least two. In October 2008 alone, 49 million individuals visited both Facebook and Myspace, ...

21. Woman cleared of felonies in MySpace suicide case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      A 49-year-old Missouri woman who prosecutors say drove a lovestruck 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona was acquitted on Wednesday of the most serious charges ...

22. Barack Obama’s Top 5 technology promises

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... YouTube channel to Obama pages on Facebook and MySpace as well as Twitter feeds, in addition to the Obama '08 application for the iPhone that displays updates and important stats and allows supporters ...

23. Blackberry Storefront takes on App Store and Android Market

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... first software batch includes applications for AOL, Facebook, MySpace, Gmail, Hotmail and Flickr. "The introduction of more consumer-friendly features in Blackberry smartphones has clearly helped generate ...

24. Lala's music service tries one more time

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... credits. Lala could run into some competition in this arena as sites such as Imeem, MySpace Music and Last.fm offer such a service for free. Lala has its own MP3 download store, with prices that are ...

25. Motorola jumps on Android bandwagon

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... most of the plethora of social networking media currently hot on the internet. Users will apparently have life made easy for them in their attempt to connect to social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. ...

26. YouTube surpasses Yahoo as world’s #2 search engine

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... (434 million searches), Craigslist (335 million), Facebook (186 million) and MySpace (585 million).  ...

27. Despite Chrome, Google continues to feed Mozilla - but for how long?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... by default on many new PCs, it has partnerships with industry giants such as MySpace and Ebay, it owns YouTube, it works on integration its software in gas station pumps there is a mobile search deal with ...

28. Google ends an era of ad-free RSS

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... feeds. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, FeedBurner traffic recently grew at a rate of 385% rate, exceeding MySpace and Digg. FeedBurner recently closed its ad network called FAN, claiming "the new AdSense ...

29. Security guru describes DNS flaw, says Internet Armageddon narrowly averted

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... Hat had patched their servers and Kaminksy has stayed in constant contact with major web companies like MySpace, Craigslist and eBay, all in the hopes of educating IT administrators of the problem.  ...

30. Facebook Connect: laying the seeds for revolution

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... It doesn’t belong to Facebook, MySpace, Google, or anyone else for that matter. It just sits out there for everyone to mess with. My privacy cannot be protected by a Privacy Policy. This kind of rush to ...

31. App Store to launch tomorrow with 500 iPhone/iPod touch applications

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... shopping, Facebook with an application that discovers friends nearby and sends pictures taken with the iPhone camera directly to user's Facebook account. There is also a MySpace Mobile application that ...

32. UK’s most spammed person bombarded with 44001 emails a day

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... with huge fines and promises of prison time against spam email senders.  Just last month, MySpace won a landmark judgment of $6 million against the so-called ‘King of Spam’ Scott Richter.  Other ...

33. 10 things you didn’t know about … Derek Perez

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... it.      A technology I have no use for … This is easy: It’s the Internet refrigerator!  What the hell is that all about: “hmmmm … I need a beer, wait: Let me check my MySpace while ...

34. The five big technology trends of 2008

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... HD video on demand will be good enough for most of us.  4. Affinity Social Networking websites.   Facebook and MySpace continue to be growing like blockbusters, but as they grow, they ...

35. CBS to buy Cnet for $1.75 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... print and broadcast formats, media companies have been rushing to the Internet to claim a stake there. Fox's parent company News Corp acquired online destinations Myspace and IGN over the past few years.  ...

36. Music store to launch on Myspace

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sony, Vivendi, Universal and Warner are all expected to be part of the launch of a new channel of Myspace, allowing users to stream and download music tracks in a direct competition to other digital media ...

37. AOL to pocket Bebo social networking site for $850m

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    AOL has announced that it will acquire the social networking site Bebo for $850 million, more than $200 million over what News Corp paid for Myspace last year.  Bebo currently has the strongest hold ...

38. News Corp will not fight Microsoft for Yahoo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... with Yahoo over a transaction to combine News Corp's MySpace Internet social network and other Internet assets with Yahoo, a source familiar with the talks said earlier. Read the complete story here. ...

39. Unreal creator Tim Sweeney: "PCs are good for anything, just not games”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... This is unfortunate, because PCs are more popular than ever. Everyone has a PC. Even those who did not have a PC in the past are now able to afford one and they use it for Facebook, MySpace, pirating music ...

40. Game console players set themselves apart at GDC

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... on the cusp of the newest tech generation.  The Xbox Live community is the closest thing any of the consoles has to Myspace-esque social networking, and the Live Video Marketplace has become a critical ...

41. Hasbro, Mattel demand Facebook remove Scrabble app

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... protects its brands and trademarks," said a spokesperson for Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble in the UK, where Facebook is actually more popular than Myspace. Facebook is not commenting ...

42. Ron Paul hauls in $6 million in one day via Internet

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... handing out flyers. Anti-apathy Many of these personal efforts are fueled by the reverse of apathy.  Volunteers see the many communities springing up on YouTube, MySpace, Meetup, and independent ...

43. Analysis: The YouTube effect - Changing the face of elections

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a significant influence, as it was the first one to see YouTube and official candidate MySpace pages.  However, because of the increase in popularity in these and other online services, and by the ...

44. Hackers implant malicious code on Alicia Keys Myspace page

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Myspace appears to be a popular new vehicle for spreading malware, as professional artists find their profile pages being hacked. New York (NY) - Myspace appears to be a popular new vehicle for spreading ...

45. Yahoo Kickstarts new social networking platform

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... company's attempt to cash in with the social networking phenomenon. Yahoo has tried with limited success to compete against the big boys like Myspace and Facebook, but it hopes Kickstart will be different ...

46. The California fires: Why backup and recovery should be your top priority now

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... done backups right now as their memories are mostly lost forever. For some who have posted pictures on Windows Live, or Facebook, or MySpace or any one of a number of photo sites at least those pictures ...

47. MySpace to add casual games channel in 2008

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Santa Monica (CA) – MySpace and Oberon Media have agreed to develop a casual gaming channel for the world’s most popular social networking website.  Dubbed MySpace Games, the channel will ...

48. Internet growing at record pace, Apache losing ground quickly

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... is currently growing at a rate of 5% a month and is adding more sites per month than in any other month in the survey’s history. The main drivers behind this new growth are MySpace, Microsoft Live ...

49. TG Video: Wirelessly hacking Gmail and more - tutorial

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... Clicking on an IP address will bring up a list of websites that the victim has surfed.  You can verify this by going to popular webpages like MySpace, Slashdot and others on the victim laptop.  ...

50. MTV to launch own social networking site

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... against giants like Facebook and Myspace, MTV is taking a different approach to set itself apart from the basic friend-connecting style of the existing sites. ThinkMTV will be a place for users to meet ...