MySpace Music is about to get several hundred thousand more songs songs, as it has just made deals with Nettwerk Music Group, INgrooves, IRIS Distribution, and RoyaltyShare.read more

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First Ann Coulter, now Newsweek’s Dan Lyons, otherwise known as Fake Steve Jobs. The former cried banishment from NBC before clawing her way back onto the Today show. The latter confirmed to WebProNews he was banned from CNBC after a fiery tirade against Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Jim Goldman for getting “bullied,” “played and punked” by Apple about CEO Steve Jobs’ health. “It’s true I’m banned,” Lyons said via email. read more

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I've seen at least two stories today that remind us why social media can be a legitimate venue for good information. If you haven't been able to grasp the concept yet, perhaps this will help. read more

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Predators on MySpace, drive-by porn on YouTube, pervasive sexting, pop-idol vacuous value systems, self-esteem crushing reinforcement of preferred body-type hegemonies, and general lack of female role models. What’s the parent of a tween girl to do? If you’re Hilary DeCesare, or one of her cofounder moms, you take matters into your own hands and set up GirlAmbition.com, a website for tween girls a concerned parent can be comfortable with.read more

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Bill Slawski at SEO By the Sea talked about a very interesting concept today regarding a social fashion search engine in which you would submit measurements and create a 3D model of your body to create a profile. You would then more easily be able to shop for clothes and shoes online based on a variety of variables.read more

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According to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, "sources with knowledge of the product" say that MySpace is working on a full-fledged email product that would compete with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, etc. With this product, all myspace users would be assigned an email address that would be something along the lines of myspaceuser@myspace.com. read more

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Making money wasn't always the greatest concern for the founders of Twitter. It's success in terms of business interest practically came by accident, mirroring the thoughts of this post from Shomemoney. read more

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There was an incredible amount of Internet buzz about the plane "crash" in the Hudson river yesterday, which as far as I can tell, was really more of an emergency landing. I talked a bit yesterday about how social media contributed to the reporting of the incident. The story seemed to be all over Twitter before any major news outlets had picked it up. There were Twitterers on the scene. read more

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CMS Watch has released a report suggesting that LinkedIn is moving more rapidly to address enterprise social computing needs. While Facebook received much of the buzz in this area a year ago, LinkedIn is more appealing in an enterprise scenario, it implies. read more

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iLike, the popular maker of social applications, which supplies music to Facebook, now has a social playlist gadget for use with Google Friend Connect. Once implemented, this gadget allows site users to contribute to forming a soundtrack for the site that it is on. read more

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MySpace has partnered with Endemol to launch a new reality web series, "Get Married on MySpace."Engaged couples wanting to Get Married on MySpace can submit videos to the series profile starting in March. MySpace users will vote on the finalists to select the bride and groom.The series will debut on MySpace in May with the announcement of the chosen couple and wrap up in early August. Each week MySpace users will vote on two wedding details leading up to the event.read more

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LinkedIn announced a partnership with IBM Lotus today that will see integration between the professional social network and several IBM Lotus products."There has been significant demand from companies seeking to increase enterprise productivity by leveraging LinkedIn's powerful network of professionals," said Reid Hoffman, chairman and CEO of LinkedIn. "Today's announcement represents a step forward in addressing that need." read more

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If fortune favors the bold, Friendster is pretty much guaranteed to experience all sorts of success.  The social network has decided to defy economic trends by opening new offices in two different countries, and is also putting its media pull to the test by placing the announcement up against inauguration coverage.read more

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Hitwise has shared some data showing that Twitter has surpassed Digg in terms of market share of visits for the first time since its launch. They're not exactly the same kind of service, but it is still an interesting comparison between two popular social sites. read more

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The Better Business Bureau is warning users of social networking sites about a number of common scams that hackers are using to gain access to personal information.read more

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Hearing that the Digg crowd is set to hurl questions at a Congressional Republican, one’s first thoughts are “ruhroh” and “what was John Boehner thinking?” Even a hurried look at what gets dugg suggests a decidedly liberal stance among a crowd not known to hold back. Looks can be deceiving, though. This same crowd was made up of rabid Ron Paul fans. Liber-tarian might be a better blanket than liber-al. read more

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MySpace users in India have been offered the chance to watch new movies before they premeire in the country. The program is called MySpace's Black Curtain Screenings.read more

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Google has announced it is expanding YouTube's click-to-buy ecommerce platform it launched last October to now include Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in an effort to further monetize the property.read more

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Encyclopedia Britannica is finally giving in to user-generated crowd wisdom—to an extent but not without some harsh fightin’ words aimed toward Google and Wikipedia. read more

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In these uncertain economic times, advertisers need to make their ads count if they don't want to throw away precious dollars on ineffective Internet advertising. Online advertising is still a great way to market your business, as it is highly targeted, and can provide both an unparalleled branding appeal and instant conversion (depending on the nature of the ad). But effective ads must be engaging. They must give a viewer a reason to care. That is a large part of the battle. Caring and Sharing read more

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Digg CEO Jay Adelson announced some plans for Digg in 2009 today. They involve reducing workers in certain areas and adding workers in others. read more

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Traffic to the ever-popular Twitter has increased by 974% from the week ending January 19th 2008 to the week ending January 17th 2009. That's a pretty dramatic increase. This data comes from Hitwise, who reported the other day that Twitter traffic had surpassed that of Digg, a concept that some found hard to believe. Twitter's growth in general, is not so surprising, considering the non-stop talking about the service in recent memory.read more

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Sometimes we get so caught up with hunting down a remote few monsters, we forget about the gangs of gremlins lurking next door. A controversial new study from the Internet Safety Technical Task Force suggests minors face greater dangers from their peers than from predators.read more

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There it is again, you hear it? That’s the sound of consumer trust clinking against the sides of the shaft as it falls, down, down, down. Belkin is just the latest company to drop trust equity down the sewer. read more

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The Washington Post has launched a new site called WhoRunsGov.com that consists of comprehensive profiles of people in politics and the government.Currently the site is focused on people involved in the government and politics on a national level but plans are in the works to expand it to include state officials, experts at think tanks and interest groups.read more

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Chrysler didn’t want to appear ungrateful to the American taxpayers, so CEO Bob Nardelli took out full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today to thank them for putting up their money instead of well-heeled Cerberus putting up its own. Reposting the expensive thank-you note on the company blog showed, however, America hates huge wastes of money more than it hates ingratitude. read more

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The Vatican has launched its own YouTube Channel. Now the site is the destination of choice for both the President of the United States of America and the Pope.read more

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LinkedIn has had a bookmarklet available for Firefox for some time, but now it is available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Previously, the bookmarklet did not allow users to share news with user created groups. With this new release, users can share news with their LinkedIn Connections, Company Groups, or user Created Groups from anywhere on the web.read more

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Since President Obama was sworn in and Whitehouse.gov has switched to a new interface, there has been an endless amount of chatter about the state of the White House's technology. Some discuss the shortcomings, while others defend it as just fine. Tradition and Transition read more

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Fans of general resource material likely had mixed emotions about Encyclopedia Britannica president Jorge Cauz’s announcement and subsequent fightin’ words this week. Adding public editing Britannica.com is an exciting step, but bloviated rips on Wikipedia was all ooh and no ahh. That’s because there’s no need after all (for us, Google, or Wikipedia) to feel defensive—any thunder Cauz could bring down is still a long way out. Remember Scrappy Doo? Don’t know why I bring him up. Just thought of him for some reason. read more

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