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Jessica Zenner, an employee of Parker Services (a technical recruitment contractor for Nintendo) was fired on the 31st of August by her employer following concerns expressed by Nintendo about posts on her blog “Inexcusable Behavior“.
On the blog, where she talks about herself, her friends and co-workers (none of whom are mentioned by name), Zenner [...]

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Sun has launched a social (and organisational) networking service called OpenEco.org, which is aimed at helping companies and organisations to improve their environmental footprint through best practice sharing.
The site was launched at a New York event attended by members of the Carbon Disclosure Project, and a presentation was given by former US President Bill [...]

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Here are two news stories of note related to social networks during the past few days.
Firstly, rumour has it that Microsoft is cosying up to Facebook and wants to negotiate some small stake in the site for around $400 million.
Secondly, and certainly more exciting from my POV is the story that Google is thinking about [...]

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Developers at Intel Corporation’s research lab at Berkeley have created the Mash Maker extension for Firefox.
The blog post about Mash Maker says that the extension enables mashups to become part of your normal browsing experience - the aim being that mashups can be used by anyone, not just techies. The Mash Maker toolbar displays [...]

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According to comparison figures from August 2007 released today by Nielsen//NetRatings, US teenagers aged 12 to 17 who visit both MySpace and Facebook spend more time at each site than those who visit just one site or the other. During that month, teens who visited both sites spent on average 20% more time on MySpace [...]

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97th Floor, a US-based SEO firm, have recently released what they call their “Social Media” extension for Firefox, which adds a new toolbar to the bottom of your browser window for fast posting of URLs to Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us. The toolbar can also display stats if a page has already been [...]

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Two articles about two different technologies both bearing the name Atom caught my attention recently.
The first was a blog entry on the 24th of July by Tim Bray on the approval of the Atom Publishing Protocol as an RFC standard by the IETF’s Internet Engineering Steering Group. You may already be familiar with [...]

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Dublin, Ireland saw one of its largest web technology and business gatherings last Thursday evening (September 13th). At least 200 Web 2.0 professionals from all over the country and Europe, plus others interested in the web application industry, converged on Ely HQ in the docklands area of the city for a series of events.
To [...]

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A problem exists with most social networking services (SNSs) in that they usually do not work together and therefore you are required to re-enter your profile and re-define your social connections when you register for each new site. There have been a lot of complaints about these so-called “walled gardens”. Although many of the most [...]

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French site “Skyrock Network” has lived up to its name and held onto its place at the number one spot in France’s list of top social networking sites, based on recent statistics from ComScore gathered since the start of 2007.
The site, which currently has over 9 million total unique visitors a month, has had [...]

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