My Space Friend Adder Stuff: 3/9/08

Saturday, March 15, 2008

eDemocracyCamp: CRM and Social Networks

Alan Rosenblatt from the Center for American Progress leads a discussion on How do you get your activists to talk about your message in their own language.

'Saigon' protests split San Jose's Vietnamese community

Something unusual has emerged in the "Little Saigon" debate. After three bitter months of recriminations and demonstrations, the tireless group of Vietnamese-Americans pushing the "Little Saigon" name - ...

Happy Birthday Mercy Lounge

Dearest friends and readers, I have come to pay tribute Mercy Lounge and to those who performed at the filled-to-capacity, fifth-year celebration of her day of establishment.

KMA Records starts video service for independents

Nashville Business Journal - by Cynthia Yeldell Nashville Business Journal Mike [left] and Keith Bradford of KMA are focusing on the MySpace generation with videos from independent musicians.

Singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards speaks her mind

Kathleen Edwards: Hear her at www.myspace.com/kathleenedwards . Kathleen Edwards, the smart, scrappy, hockey-loving, Canadian singer-songwriter, was in town recently promoting her third album, "Asking for ...

Wired 13.11: The Hit Factory

... How MySpace became the MTV for the Net generation. ... No wonder: His photo shows up at the top of every MySpace user's "friends" list. ...

MySpace hosts dev Jam

SF Chronicle : MySpace hosts dev Jam. Just as Facebook opened up its platform to outside developers last year, MySpace unveiled its platform to developers in early February.

Heard the Music

West Baltimore's best unlicensed venue sure knows how to terrify the neighbors -this New York City-based trio specializes in delay loops, cacophonous feedback, and thundering machinations reminiscent of ...

Jesse Malin venue change

Last Friday's Rock Picks column led with an item on Jesse Malin, the former D Generation frontman who was scheduled to play Chapel Hill's Blend nightclub on Thursday.

Is the Obama Campaign Really Different?

It was almost a year ago that Phil de Vellis let loose into the world his " Vote Different " mash-up of Apple's classic 1984 Super Bowl ad for the Mac.

A New Kind of Business Video Network Launches

FastCompany.TV , a new online video network featuring coverage of bleeding edge technology trends, interviews with leading executives and business people, reviews of the latest technology products, and ...

Sickened, Devastated': Parents on MySpace Suicide

Death - Harry - 0 Comments Tags: hoax , Suicide , St. Louis , myspace Should Those Who Posed as 'Cute Boy' Online Be Held Responsible for 13-Year-Old's Death? It's a picture-perfect all-American neighborhood, ...

Everclear's Favorite Covers Collected by Art Alexakis for 'The Vegas...

Produced by Everclear's Art Alexakis, Exclusive CD & Digital Album Features Band's Take on 14 Classic Hits, Including Two Exclusive Recordings HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Never shy about their ...

Heavy Accelerates Momentum With Key Hires From Doubleclick, Myspace, Purevideo, Veoh And Webmd

February 25, 2007: Heavy.com , the web's leading independent video site, today announced another robust round of hires, including: former COO of Panther Express and Engineering VP of DoubleClick, Anthony ...

NBC to - Quarterlife': Here's the Only Bravo You Get

The series, spawn of the web, drew just 3.1 million viewers last Wednesday night, the worst in-season performance at 10 p.m. by any peacock-network show in at least 17 years.

MySpace Considers Online Music Venture

Home : Features : News : MySpace Considers Online Music Venture MySpace Considers Online Music Venture 3-Mar-2008 Written by: Heather Chin MySpace plans free ad-supported music streams, MP3 downloads and music ...

People in the News

The Diablo made her do it Topless photos of Diablo Cody that are circulating on the Web came from an unlikely source: the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno herself.

Myspace Sticky Notes Graphics Added

We have added 30 new Sticky Notes graphics. You can use these graphics and graphic codes to comment your friends or post the Sticky Notes graphic in your myspace profile. Sticky Notes Graphics

If you like that ... you'll love this

Online communities are leaving advertisers with a headache - but helping PR to thrive through links and recommendations Vast communities of online social networkers obsessed with sharing recommendations but ...

Myspace Tour Kick-Off

From the promoter: MySpace, the world's most popular social network, today announced theSpring 2008 MySpace Music Tour, featuring the Grammy-nominated French electronic duo JUSTICE with support from Diplo, DJ ...

Reunions

Planning a reunion. Please contact Kathy Nisun at 363-5679 or e-mail: Kayninilu@aol.com or Kathy Shoebridge @ Klivingston@nu-core.com . Class of 1963 A 45-year reunion is being planned for 2008.

The Post-Journal-Directory Home

Horsemen's Spring Round-Up , Sinclairville Fire Hall, 30 Main St., Sinclairville, NY 14782, Sinclairville , Chautauqua County Starting at 1:00 p.m. we will have a speaker on equine supplements, horse clubs will ...

eBay Bares Its Ugly New Face

John Donahoe, eBay's newly elected CEO and president, has yet to take his role, and yet has caused the largest rift between eBay and the eBay community ever.

Wired 14.08: How To: Optimize Your Web Site

... How To: Optimize Your Web Site. Make your blog popular, trick out your MySpace page, and more. Page 1 of 1. ... What's your excuse? Trick Out Your MySpace Page. ...

Friday, March 14, 2008

Photos on MySpace

I've just uploaded nearly a dozen additional photos to my MySpace site . These photos are, for the most part, nothing that hasn't already been posted on this blog.

Jamie Delargy's Business Blog

BUSINESS NEWS TUESDAY 04 MARCH 2008 Currently no News MONDAY 03 MARCH 2008 VIRGIN PLAYS DOWN 'OPEN SKIES' AGREEMENT Virgin Atlantic warned today that the transatlantic 'open skies' agreement due to come into ...

PawsConnect.com Launches Brickfish Campaign to Inspire Puppy Love

Brickfish , the social media advertising platform, and PawsConnect.com, a new social networking Web site for connected pet people, today announced the "Pet Personals by PawsConnect" campaign featuring profiles ...

[CONTEST] Win A Copy Of Randy Jackson's Music Club, Vol. One From 411

One From 411 Posted by Mitch Michaels on 03.03.2008 New compilation by American Idol judge stacked with stars... On March 11th, Concord Music Group will release Randy Jackson's Music Club, Vol.

Christ on a bike, The Jonas Brothers are coming to the UK

Remember The Jonas Brothers ? We wrote about them almost two years ago when they were covering lots of Busted songs but changing them to make them not as good.

Howard Dean's redemption

The race for the Democratic nomination is a window into how the candidates view the future of the party, which is being shaped in large part by Dean's efforts.

Sandro Perri

Yes, I know, that's pretty much the same thing, but no other music has impressed, appealed, and lingered in me as Perri's has since discovering it late last year.

Fresh Four ineligible for ASWSU election

The ticket was ruled unconstitutional because of the group's multiple members. Alex Schwappach The Fresh Four, a group campaigning as a four-person ASWSU executive write-in ticket, was declared unconstitutional ...

More By The Numbers

Can't Get No Satisfaction Advanced models of cell phones increasingly are on consumers' shopping lists and the iPhone and BlackBerry are the beneficiaries, according to ChangeWave's latest consumer survey.

Lucid Live at The Whiskey 1803 on 2007-12-01

Lucid Live at The Whiskey 1803 on 2007-12-01 embedding and help Description Lucid December 1st, 2007 The Whiskey 1803 Annapolis, MD Taper: Timothy Brown Location: SBD Area, slightly ROC Source: AKG 460/Ck61s ...

March 2, 2008

Just a short note to say issue seven of phlegm comic is out now! I've also got a new website up packed with new photos and all that jazz.

REAL play Ronnie Scotts with Sola, Rob and Derrick

REAL, the band set up by ex-Jamiroquai band member Winston Rollins are performing three gigs at the world famous Ronnie Scotts jazz club in London's Soho on 17, 18 and 19 April.

'88 Dansville classmates sought

The Dansville High School of 1988 20-year Class Reunion Committee is trying find all graduates for the event that will be held in August at the Brookshire Inn in Williamston.

Lewisville group named to online task force

The Institute for Policy Innovation, a Lewisville-based nonprofit public-policy organization, has been chosen as a member of the industrywide Online Safety Task Force organized by the social networking site ...

First MySpace OpenSocial apps unveiled with very little fanfare

As promised, MySpace users can now get their hands on the first fruits of the social network's official Developer Platform -- the means by which outside developers can create official applications that integrate with the site.

Independent truckers fear rising costs and stagnant freight rates will run them off the road

SUNDAY: We have 591 guests online Trucker Robert Griffith is on the road three weeks out of four, pulling oversize loads like crane booms, railroad ties and air conditioning ducts.

Kansas City, Mo

Young voters are on a roll this election season. They rolled right through Super Tuesday in record-breaking numbers and are poised for a remarkable, maybe election-altering, turnout in November.

NewsBusted 145

Topics in today's show: Protestors plan to demonstrate at the political party conventions, Hillary Clinton says Barack Obama doesn't have enough international experience and says the media are biased against ...

Memo Pad: Bachelor Party... Apax on the Prowl, Again...

BACHELOR PARTY: What's the bigger honor: being a member of the Time 100, the newsweekly's annual roster of most influential thinkers, politicians and performers, or being named Cosmopolitan's Fun Fearless Male ...

Concert Review: 15th Annual Caribbean Festival at Bayfront Park

Ky-mani Marley rocking in front of thousands of fans. 15th Annual Caribbean Festival AKA The Bob Marley Festival Saturday, March 1, 2008 Bayfront Park Amphitheater Better than: Staying home and listening to ...

Hatboro man killed in UM accident

A Hatboro man was killed late Sunday after his car struck a tractor-trailer stopped at a red light on Easton Road at Blair Mill Road in Upper Moreland, police said.

Susan Weich

Post-Dispatch St. Charles columnist Susan Weich The recent charge against a former teacher at Barat Academy hit close to home because my daughter has been accepted into the 2008-2009 freshman class.

NewsChannel 9 Introduces New Web Space Tool

In-house it's called Pluck. but on our web site, you'll simply find a link that reads, "Publish Your Stuff!" Nearly everyone in the world these days is familiar with MySpace.

Nine Inch Nails's news article:Nine Inch Nails Offer Free Album

Caption: Nine Inch Nails at Carling Leeds Festival at Bramham Park Park. Leeds, England - 24.08.07 Rockers NINE INCH NAILS are giving their new album away to fans who visit their website.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Tony Romo, John Mayer and Dane Cook share the stage at Cosmo's Fun and Fearless Male Awards

Dating Jessica Simpson has its rewards. Former and current beaus _ comedian Dane Cook, singer John Mayer and quarterback Tony Romo _ were honored together as Fun Fearless Males by Cosmopolitan magazine.

Awesome Color Sets Tracks & Title For Sophomore LP

E-mail that brazen hussy! FAQs about The Music Slut The Music Slut's MySpace Our SXSW 2008 Shows: Alexa Ranking Technorati Ranking Web TheMusicSlut.com In Britian *** Vividseats.com offers premium Concert ...

Facebook gets a language lesson from users

Facebook, the social network site that has enjoyed spectacular international growth in the past year, despite being published only in English until recently, said it was offering a German version.

Analyst: Recording industry needs even newer business models

JupiterResearch analysts are pointing to the music industry's need to revolutionize its business model even further, as social networking sites, Internet radio stations, and legit P2P services are taking ...

Mzinga raises $32.5M, gung ho on enterprise social networking

Mzinga Inc., which makes technology that lets enterprises provide online social networking services, said Monday that it raised $32.5 million in an inside round of venture capital led by W Capital.

American NME Award Show To Take Place This April

TV Network Uses News Division as Front for Showing Racy Photos

You may remember this story from a couple of months ago: Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, mayor of Arlington, Oregon , had posted at least one racy picture of herself on her Myspace page .

Are Customers Assets?

Posted 6 hours ago Comments Trackbacks One of the things that I have heard from time to time is that customers are assets and they need to be managed like assets.

Idlewild Frontman Begins Weekly Newspaper Column

Elbow Adds 2nd Leg To North American Tour

MySpace, Facebook losing popularity

Posted by The Grand Rapids Press March 03, 2008 06:05AM Online social networking exploded in popularity in recent years among tech-savvy high school and college students, but the honeymoon may be over.

Find your Social Network

The Right Social Network for You by Scott Spanbauer, PC World "Whether you're looking for a job, a party, or long-lost friends, your ideal online meeting place is out there.

'Hittin' the Town for Monday, March 3, 2008

Posted by Keith I. Marszalek March 03, 2008 9:22AM Sketch covers, Cope headlines and Ruffins christens Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes The Maple Leaf Bar, 10 p.m. 8316 Oak Street, Uptown Tickets: $10 ...

Dealing with Reputation Management Issues

Brett Borders wrote a great article on the 13 pages negative online publicity comes from that are most difficult to outrank, which includes articles on authority blogs, government pages, press releases, ...

MySpace foils Wausau underage drinking party

For the Marshfield News-Herald Marathon County Sheriff's deputies issued 29 underage drinking citations Friday night after a Wausau couple found out about a party their daughter was hosting from her MySpace ...

Cut the Idling Engines

Like Al's ideas? Hear more in our broadcast and online seminars . Get Al's Morning Meeting updates as an RSS feed: Copy this link and add it to your feed reader.

MySpace users who blog are more confident

While many in the community view bloggers as anti-social nerds, research by an Australian university suggests otherwise. It’s often thought that bloggers are are not very social because they spend a lot of time on their computers. While that might be true to some degree, it appears that bloggers actually become more sociable and more self-confident [...]

Creative solutions from WWE, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Sport Clips

Mun2/Raw Wrestling promotion has the moves Situation: Mun2 is a mostly English-language television channel that caters to bilingual Latino teens and young adults and is owned by NBC Universal.

Officials Say Romance Linked to Deaths

Rains County Sheriff David Traylor revealed at a press conference that small calibre weapon and a knife were used in the triple murder in rural Rains County early Saturday morning.

MySpace to release music service to compete with peers

MySpace is planning a service that would combine free ad-supported music listening with paid MP3 downloads and music subscriptions amid ongoing competitive pressure from networking peers like Facebook, Last.fm ...

Hypebot: Michael Nash, Mobile Sales, AmieStreet, iTunes, Build...

Hypebot: Michael Nash, Mobile Sales, AmieStreet, iTunes, Build Last.fm Widgets, Facebook Music & Film, Ad Supported Music, PiraBoogle, Videos Music industry news from Hypebot : Warner Music Group announced that ...

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Tonight in Rock: Homeless Benefit, Spaceland Turns 13

The Magnetic Fields play tonight and tomorrow Image via their MySpace Some may know that there is the LA Homeless Blog , written by the CEO of People Assisting the Homeless .

Multicultural Center hosts month-long celebration for women

Issue date: 3/3/08 Section: Life & Style The Multicultural Center shifts gears from Black History Month to Women's History Month under the theme "Women's Art: Women's Vision." The month-long celebration, which ...

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

New Review: Da Cruz "Nova Estacao EP 1&2"

The artist Da Cruz, full name Mariana Da Cruz, a Paulista with bahian roots started to sing Bossa Nova and MPB in the rather obscure clubs of Campinas/Sao Paulo.

From bulls to ballads

The rodeo roped Ryan Bingham into his music career. The Texan troubadour clocked years traveling around the country riding bulls, going down dusty roads in his pickup truck with friends.

A new wave of British female talent has arrived.

Coming on strong ... Leona Lewis / supplied DESPITE Britain arguably producing some of the world's best bands, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Oasis, outstanding female artists have never really ...

Amy Hestir Davis bill goes in wrong direction

Friday was the deadline for the final draft of the civil rights research paper I assigned students in my eighth grade communication arts class at South Middle School each year.

Sunday meet the press

The Washington Post has an article this morning, Wanna Talk Money , which examines how people are taking their money thoughts and discussions online at various social personal finance sites, including ...

2007 a Year of Vast Personal Growth and Evolution

"There's an ongoing journey that awaits anyone who's standing still. To start their journey, steps must be taken, even if they're uncertain which direction to take the first step in.

Reaching out to state's quiet community

New social-networking Web site connects local rap and Hip-hop artists Nicolette Lotrionte Issue date: 3/4/08 Section: Mosaic Hip-hop is more than just music - it's a language, a culture and, more importantly, a ...

Frame of Mind Live at Coopers' on 2007-11-17

Frame of Mind Live at Coopers' on 2007-11-17 Description Frame of Mind Live @ Coopers' - Nevada City, CA 11-17-2007 Disc 1 01 Catch It Try 02 The Road> 03 jam> 04 Cold Breeze 05 Away 06 On My Way 07 Your Own ...

Fuck Buttons To Horrrse Around Canada With Caribou

Fuck Buttons To Horrrse Around Canada With Caribou Monday March 03, 2008 @ 05:30 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Fuck Buttons and a horse British duo Fuck Buttons will release their first full-length album in ...

CAVA's takes the Las Cruces stage as a diva

Issue date: 3/3/08 Section: Arts and Entertainment Los Angeles native and contemporary Latin American artist CAVA, will be performing six shows in New Mexico as part of the National Hispanic Cultural Center's ...

Zannel Opens Developer API

Zannel has announced that it is launching an open API -- www.zannel.com/developers -- that will allow developers to leverage the functionality of Zannel's Instant Media Messaging platform to create media-rich ...

Homebrew Competition

Many thanks to everyone that helped make last weekend's homebrew competition a tremendous success! CFB volunteers, the homebrewers, and WHQR all worked together to pull off a well orchestrated event that ...

Cyberclinic: Pulling and Pushing

I write the Cyberclinic column in The Independent and bits and pieces for The Guardian, Time Out, The Observer, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and various mags including Radio Times .

Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation

When the Future of Web Apps conference wound down on Friday, a few things were clear, not the least of which is the fact that open standards are a big factor.

Men @ Great Scott

Price: $12 Phone: 566-9014 Web: Event Web Site Age Suitability: None Specified Tags: nightlife Truth Serum, a group that hosts subversive events, is having a dance party tonight featuring Men -- DJs JD Samson ...

Rhodri says: My girlfriend is addicted to smoky bacon flavour crisps. ...

I write the Cyberclinic column in The Independent and bits and pieces for The Guardian, Time Out, The Observer, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and various mags including Radio Times .

Live from the Dell Lounge... It's the 2008 PLUG Independent Music Awards

It ' Register Now at the Dell Lounge to Watch the Exclusive Live Webcast of This Sold-Out Event March 6 Links to: www.DellLounge.com/music/plugawards www.plugawards.com www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com ...

Obama's Web marketing triumph

Why does Barack Obama appear to be outmaneuvering Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary? Part of the reason is his campaign's mastery of the Internet, says Rishad Tobaccowala, chief innovation ...

YouLoveMe.com Free Online Dating Welcomes eHarmony and Match.com Members

For Friends, Love or Money: the newly launched YouLoveMe.com Beta version is an incentive-based next generation social media progression mixing free online dating and social networking all in one place.

United Technologies offers $2.6 billion

United Technologies said Sunday it had offered to buy Diebold for $2.63 billion, taking its bid public after the maker of automated teller machines, electronic security systems and voting machines declined to ...

Calendar

This undated photo originally provided by Focus Features shows Keira Knightley, left, and James McAvoy during a scene from "Atonement." --Today's Events Concerts Roman Chip: Roman Chip and the Border Jazz ...

Liverpool Museum Exhibition Myspace Page Launch

National Museums Liverpool is inviting bands from Merseyside to join its new Myspace page for the upcoming The Beat Goes On exhibition at World Museum Liverpool, running from 12 July 2008 until 1 November 2009.

Tracked Down:

"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" hunk Matt McConaughey shopping - and posing for snaps - at Whole Foods on Cambridge Street the day after he was spotted pounding margaritas while catching the University of ...

Local Man In 'Election Daze' - City Company Collaborating With Comic Legend Stan Lee

By Nicholas L. Dean ndean@post-journal.com THE DEAN'S LIST SIGHT On March 7, the JCC Uncommoners will premiere its production of ''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' - an existential tragicomedy about the ...

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Coaches warn athletes of Facebook, MySpace

"To see college athletes perform, all it takes is some money for a ticket. But if you want to see some of these players partying, you can do it for free.

Pela Cancels Remainder Of US Tour Due To Injury

E-mail that brazen hussy! FAQs about The Music Slut The Music Slut's MySpace Our SXSW 2008 Shows: Web *** Vividseats.com offers premium Concert Tickets and Theater Tickets , including Tom Petty Tickets , Kid ...

Big Brother 9: Live feeds report - March 2

Posted Mar 2nd 2008 8:33PM by Jackie Schnoop Filed under: OpEd , Big Brother Although this season of Big Brother 9 isn't quite the norm , there are some constants when compared to past seasons.

New Review: Quintetto Lo Greco "The Right Spirit"

Lo Greco Bros play, in a long career from the middle of '80 on, a special, original and inspiring blend of funky-jazz fusion, of which they are performers, producers, writers and arrangers.

Israeli army gives rocket safety tips on Internet

Avi B. wanted to know if he could receive a warning via a text message on his cell phone of an impending rocket attack on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Business:

Line of cocktail mixers has a twist - caffeine Ilana DeBare, Chronicle Staff Writer Jeff Silver helped launch the fast-growing energy drink Rockstar in bars and stores throughout Northern California seven years ...

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Whether he's performing under his own name or with his old band, The Moldy Peaches, there's no denying that Adam Green is one of the most unique songwriters of our generation.

New generation gets involved

More... Enthused youth step into political spotlight Presidential candidates are taking note of a new generation of young Americans eager to get involved By Jim DeBrosse BELLBROOK -- At Bellbrook High School ...

MySpace is All I Need

MySpacetm is one of the most revolutionary blog sites of all time It brings people together reuniting old friends introducing you to future lovers and can be so personalized to the individual

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Top Five Barriers Social Networks Face

Where Annoying Tech Buzzwords Come From [ More ] Xeon Processors Packed with Latest Server Technologies By adding more servers, the datacenter can quickly grow out of control, and bring power and cooling costs ...

Virgin plays down 'open skies' agreement

BUSINESS NEWS MONDAY 03 MARCH 2008 VIRGIN PLAYS DOWN 'OPEN SKIES' AGREEMENT Virgin Atlantic warned today that the transatlantic 'open skies' agreement due to come into effect later this month will be a 'damp ...

A Ghost In Bright Purple

I give it 6 months til her breakdown Reply to this comment Comment by Rachel 2008-03-03 12:00:28 And yes, she does look a lil less cracky lately Reply to this comment Comment by chrim 2008-03-03 13:03:15 Not ...

New Ponytail - "Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From An Angel)" & "Terrible Why"

When we saw Ponytail spazz and bounce at Bowery during CMJ, we're pretty sure the Baltimore quartet played the Whitman-sampling "Celebrate The Body Electric ," the first single from Ice Cream Spiritual , the ...

New Annie - "Girlfriend"

Annie where have you been? It's been like three-and-half-years since Anniemal first dropped but whatever you read that right and it's understandable if you're "Heartbeat" started racing: Annie's back with a new ...

Facebook Now in German

Facebook, the social network site that has enjoyed spectacular international growth in the past year, despite being published only in English until recently, said on Monday it was offering a German version.

West takes Chinese media case to WTO

MONDAY 03 MARCH 2008 The EU and United States today stepped up pressure on China to allow foreign financial information suppliers such as Reuters to provide services direct to their clients, by taking their ...

American Eagle Outfitters Changes Monthly Sales Reporting Date

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. announced that starting with its February sales release on Thursday, March 6 th , the company will announce monthly sales prior to the opening of the market on the Thursday ...

Zannel Opens Developer API and Adds Twitter/Flickr/Facebook Feeds to Their Mobile Mix

SAN FRANCISCO March 3, 2008 -- Today Zannel announced that it is launching an open API that will allow developers to leverage the power and functionality of Zannel ' s Instant Media Messaging platform to create ...

SociaLearn Bootstrap Event - Institutional Developers' Barcamp/Unconference

One of the projects I've got myself involved in here as a way of trying to avoid doing any 'real' work is SociaLearn , an open platform for supporting formal and informal learning.

Breakup blues

Sex with Elyssa & Helen Elyssa Maldonado and Helen Kwon Issue date: 3/3/08 Section: Leisure Signing onto Facebook, you notice on the mini-feed that your boyfriend of four months has just changed his ...

Facebook lets its users translate site into German

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook, the social network site that has enjoyed spectacular international growth in the past year, despite being published only in English until recently, said on Monday it was offering a ...

Facebook Now In German - Thanks To 2,000 Generous Users

How do you "poke" someone in German? Facebook users decided the right word is "anklopfen." Facebook will launch in German tomorrow, thanks to 2,000 users who've helped translate the site using an application ...

A TRIBUTE ON MYSPACE.COM A tribute to Kenneth Marion Jr. on MySpace.Com shows the three youths, Richard Douglas , 16, Kenneth Duncan Jr., 17, and Robert Wallace, 17, who were arrested in the Feb.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Saudia Arabia tells US to back off

Saudia Arabia tells US to back off Author Message Saudi Arabia will never change its domestic or foreign policies under pressure from the United States, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said here ...

Diablo Cody Backlash In Full Swing [Celebrity Science]

Ellen Page continues to enjoy the halo of her success in the hit film Juno , moving from the cover of Entertainment Weekly to a hosting gig on Saturday Night Live last night.

Award Controversy, Wilson Says Paris/Britney/Lohan Won't Stop, Humphries VS Apple

Tiernan's default victory, "She Won't Stop," local Bowie book, Edgar Winter intvw, synth collector, and Dave Humphries VS Apple Records www.myspace.com/MichaelTiernan TIERNAN WINS BY DEFAULT "I recently won the ...

A mega metal ball

Published on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays Metro Plus A mega metal ball The demigods of metal, Megadeth and Machine Head will throw the city into a head-banging frenzy, anticipates DEEPA ...

Poodles of Hell

When you check out the brand-new CAMOUFLAGE DANSE page on MySpaceMusic... be sure to listen to track #3 -- CAMOUFLAGE DANSE "Poodles of Hell". http://myspace.com/camouflagedanse After you hear that song, you ...

Halftime Show 10 Year Anniversary - A Decade of Hip Hop on WNYU-FM

Calendar: Contact: DJ Skizz Location: No Renowned Halftime Show on WNYU to Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary on March 5th Special Anniversary Show to Include Dozens of Superstar Guests DJ's Eclipse and Skizz, hosts ...

Blend of Old & New Tactics Powers 'O'

Barack Obama 's campaign's shrewd marriage of online social networks and an old-school volunteer army created a nimble ground team that allowed him to adapt - and get farther faster than anyone expected.

Sunday single: Method Echo

Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, March 2, 2008 Story appeared in TICKET section, Page unknown27 Method Echo is a funky pop group that won a recent "battle of the bands" at downtown's Hard Rock Cafe.

21.FEB.08 Girl's Mother, Rock Band Buckcherry Settle Dueling Lawsuits

Girl's Mother, Rock Band Buckcherry Settle Dueling Lawsuits From CITY NEWS SERVICE 21.FEB.08 Rock band Buckcherry and a teenage girl's mother settled dueling lawsuits in which she alleged her daughter was lured ...

Wired 14.12: MurderonMySpace

... Murder on MySpace. ... There was no sign of him online, even though he usually spent hours a day on MySpace. And he'd been hanging out a lot with that drug dealer. ...

Women raise voices for Clinton nomination

Eleven women, including former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, actress Melanie Griffith and Chelsea Clinton, raised their voices on Saturday at the University of Akron to promote U.S. Sen.

Blame Zuckerberg (and Twitter) for poor SXSWi keynote; Parents joining Facebook; Paramount movies go viral

A Facebook special of The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the weekâ€¦

Suspect at large in fatal shooting

Suspect at large in fatal shooting Victim's family makes funeral arrangements in Texas By Kate Braser Sunday, March 2, 2008 While police continued their search for Joaquin Starks on Saturday, the family of Ida ...

Gail Pennington

Everybody's a producer - and everybody's a critic. Since the first eight-minute installment of the drama "quarterlife" went up on YouTube three months ago, 1,319 people have posted reviews, some just a word or ...

Music review: Cadence Weapon

Reviewed by Sean O'Neal March 4th, 2008 Rapping is easier with guns and drugs, so give credit to Cadence Weapon's 2005 breakout Breaking Kayfabe for proving that a former Pitchfork scribe with a Nintendo fetish ...

National student rights advocate talks about Internet issues

' Standing in front of a slide show depicting Spider-Man cheating on an exam and Velma of "Scooby-Doo" bonging a beer, C.L. Lindsay gave students legal advice on everything from downloading music to ...

Entrepreneurs find that running a Web site takes work

Only the wide-open Internet lies between Anthony Ramsey and his business dream.He launched his professional and social networking site, ISawYouAt.com, late last year thinking he could stake out new territory on ...

Texas school districts trying to combat teen dating violence

By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News mhaag@dallasnews.com Some Texas school districts, unsure of how to educate teens about the dangers of abusive relationships, have tapped an unlikely source for help: ...

My e-mail breakup with Jimmy Wales and other sordid doings

Hey, you should have seen my breakup e-mail with Jimmy Wales. Just kidding. Of course, as all of Silicon Valley likely knows by now, Wikipedia's major domo is getting razzed over at Valleywag.

MySpace, Facebook move to better promote third party apps

Companies look to help developers make money from apps created for the social networks MySpace and Facebook this week separately announced plans to make it easier for developers to make money from applications ...

X, Vampire Weekend Set for Annual Spin SXSW Party

Here's the lineup for our always anticipated, always packed SXSW party: X, Vampire Weekend, the Raveonettes, the Whigs, Ben Jelen, Switches, and Music Nation winner the Scarlet will all perform, and Diplo and ...

(Make the) Product! One Year Anniversary Show live from These are Powers tour

Calendar: Contact: Jaqueline Location: No Product celebrates its ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY live from tour with These Are Powers on WNYU this Wednesday, March 5th from 8-9pm! Barely a year ago, lake-coastal These Are ...

'Hittin' the Town for March 3-9, 2008

Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes The Maple Leaf Bar, 10 p.m. 8316 Oak Street, Uptown Tickets: $10 Resources: Johnny Sketch's MySpace page Rocker Johnny Sketch and his Dirty Notes take over tonight for John ...

The Remaking of a Media Mogul

Is Michael Eisner cool enough to hang with the cool kids? Michael Eisner created a successful web series , exported it for overseas syndication, and even managed to make some cash while doing it.