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Social Network Games: Fake Mobsters, Real Racket
You might enjoy raking in money as a fake mobster in Mafia Wars, or collecting cotton subsidies in FarmVille, but TechCrunch's Michael Arrington argues that the real racket in virtual games is for the companies that run them, and for the social networking sites that host them. More » -
privacy
Applying For A Job? Great, Give Us Your Google And Facebook Passwords
ReadWriteWeb has a scary article about the city of Bozeman, Montana. It doesn't sound like a scary place, but if you want to say, work for the City, you'll need to give them all your social networking usernames and passwords. More » -
time wasters
At Ease, Facebook, Twitter: Soldiers Can Access You On Base Now — MySpace? Not So Much
The Army's network administrators have stopped blocking base access to social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, as well as personal e-mail accounts, Wired reports. More » -
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How To Delete Your Online Accounts
PC Mag has assembled a list of instructions on how to wipe your account from a long list of websites, including Classmates.com (you'll have to call), Windows Live ID (it's complicated), and Friendster (ha ha ha). In many cases, canceling is as straightforward as clicking a link and authorizing the cancellation, but it's nice to see all the phone numbers and tips collected in one spot. More » -
crackdowns
MySpace Kicks Off 90,000 Registered Sex Offenders
If you notice a sudden dearth of cute and sensitive teenagers on MySpace today, it's because 90,000 sex offenders have been "identified and removed" from the site. The news has shocked the Connecticut Attorney General, who made the announcement.
This revelation is totally appalling and unacceptable, and this shocking revelation, resulting from our subpoena, also provides compelling proof that social networking sites remain ripe with sexual predators."
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MySpace To Launch DRM-Free Music Store
MySpace is starting a DRM-free music store, says the NYT.Exact terms of the deal and details about the new site, like prices for downloaded music tracks, were not disclosed. But MySpace did say the site would offer songs free of digital rights management software or D.R.M., which is used to prevent illicit copying but can create technical hurdles for buyers. The songs would be playable on any portable music device, including Apple's iPod.
The store will also feature ring tones, tickets, T-shirts, and all that other stuff the kids like. More » -
privacy
Anorexic? Your Insurance Company Could Subpeona Your Writings On MySpace And Facebook
How's this for twisted: An insurance company, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, have demanded that the parents of minor children who suffer from anorexia turn over their children's writings on MySpace and Facebook, as well as any emails where they discuss their problems. More » -
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Canceling Your MySpace Account Is F$%!@&*# Impossible
Reader Julian can't figure out how to cancel his MySpace account. More » -
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retail
Best Buy's Myspace Forum For Sharing Dumb Customer Stories
There's a forum on social networking site Myspace where Best Buy employees share the dumbest things customers have ever said to them. They range from the "I probably should find another job:"
wheres the bathroom
To the whimsical... More »EVERY DAY AND I WANT TO KILL MY SELF (NOT REALL) EVERY TIME CAUSE THEY ARE ALWAYS RIGHT NEXT TO THE FUCKING SIGN.
DUMB ASS BITCHES
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advertising
MySpace Advertising To Become Much More Targeted
The LA Times is reporting that MySpace ads are about to get much more targeted. Soon, small businesses and individuals will be able to use templates to create banners ads. They will then be able to specify the characteristics of users they want to reach. User's profiles will be mined for data that indicates their individual tastes and habits. More » -
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Apple Store Blocks MySpace
It's a sad day for cheap vain people, the Apple Store has blocked MySpace. One can no longer hog the computers taking pursed-lipped self-portraits with PhotoBooth and uploading them to MySpace. Apparently, such people were clogging up the Macs for hours at a time. More » -
cingular
Like, Cingular Friends MySpace
According to Reuters, Cingular has cut a deal to offer MySpace on almost all of its cell phones. For a measly $2.99 a month, people not old enough to have cell phones, let alone MySpace profiles, can update photos, check MySpace messages, and update their blogs...all from their phones! It looks like the holidays have come early for internet predators!—MEGHANN MARCO More » -
myspace
MySpace's Racist Ring Tone Ads
On one hand, it's hard to believe that MySpace endorsed or even saw this advertisement for cell phone ringtones that it's been displaying on their web page. On the other hand, this sort of big-lipped, bone-through-the-fro depiction of an African hasn't been acceptable since some of Louis Armstrong's more colorful Max Fleischer appearances. More » -
tvs
The News; Myspace Eats Lead
• Many a senior dance thesis will launch when feminism hits the Orient and all these Asian pixies introducing new gadgets get deconstructed. [NYT] "The New King of Big TV's Is Queen-Size" More » -
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Blogobitchin'!
• Forget a certain ISP, leaving Architectural Digest is like extricating yourself from a lover who wants to have dinner and talk about why you broke up, maybe see a movie afterwards? [Bonjour, PeeWee] "Architectural Digest eats its peas one by one." More » -
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180solutions' Serves Up MySpace Spyware
Just when we think that MySpace couldn't sink any lower in our esteems unless a gigantic bottomless pit opened up beneath the corporate headquarters and the tentacles of Cthulhu him/her/itself coiled around it to drag it into the chthonic pit... MySpace starts infecting users with spyware. More »
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