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[28 Jun 2009 | Comments | ]
Business Trending : Facebook and Twitter-style performance reviews

Most employees dread that one or two-time per year sit-down with their superiors in a lacquered room to discuss performance reviews. It is one of those times at work when silence can deafen and the cold still breeds beady sweat.

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[21 Jun 2009 | Comments | ]
Advertisers angry over Facebook click fraud

A number of advertisers are expressing their distaste for advertising over Facebook, when some of them have been cropping up with “click-throughs” to their respective sites that actually didn’t exist.

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[17 Jun 2009 | Comments | ]
Experts concerned about pornography over Facebook

Facebook has yet again been the target of speculation, this time by Indonesian experts concerned that children are getting very easy access to pornography over the said online social network.

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[16 Jun 2009 | Comments | ]
MySpace cuts 30 percent of workforce

MySpace’s staff is “bloated” considering the “realities of today’s marketplace,” which prevents it from operating with efficiency and innovation, Chief Executive Officer Owen Van Natta said in a statement.

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[16 Jun 2009 | Comments | ]
Iran bans foreign media from covering rallies

Journalists could continue to work in their offices and hotel rooms but they cannot go out and do any interviews as the authorities were revoking press accreditation of all foreign media, including Iranians working for the foreign press.

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[22 May 2009 | Comments | ]
Facebook’s New Features – Pointless or Convenient?

The social network Facebook is off to a great start; it stole MySpace’s spotlight and continued to rise in fame in what has been just a couple years.

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[30 Mar 2009 | Comments | ]
Earn a Master’s degree in Facebook, Twitter and Bebo for $6K

A university in the United Kingdom is to offer a Master’s degree in social networking, but it will cost students more than $6000. Through this program, students will learn how to set up blogs, publish podcasts, and make the most of the social media websites for communications and marketing.

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[16 Feb 2009 | Comments | ]
Australia’s Bushfire Arsonist Named

A court has lifted a ban on identifying the man behind Australia’s deadly bushfires, despite fears of possible attacks by angry residents.

The suspect, Brendan Sokaluk, a 39-year old man was named after the court lifted the ban to conceal his identity. An order banning the publishing of his address or his image is still in effect.

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[6 Feb 2009 | Comments | ]
PMS Buddy: iPhone app that tracks menstrual cycle

The app, which will be available some time next week, allows users to keep an eye on the mood swings, headaches and food cravings that often occur at “that time of the month”.

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[10 Jan 2009 | Comments | ]
Facebook accused of supporting the Mafia

Mafia investigators have accused Facebook of turning some of the country’s vicious mobsters into internet idols, by allowing them to maintain their own pages from their cells.

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[24 Nov 2008 | Comments | ]
Fake MySpace leads to death threats

Wicked hackers have stolen a woman’s life, creating a fake MySpace page that has prompted death threats.
The page on the phony social networking site included photos of the woman, personal information, the type of car she drove and explicit messages.

Shanae Starks told how she had been under attack for weeks after friends found the page and alerted her.
She said: “I thought, ‘Oh, this could cost me my life’. It’s not my page, but that’s my face.”
Her humiliation turned to fear when the messages started including threats and comments about gangs.
“I …

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