Fliq social networking app comes to the Mac (MacNN)
Mark/Space on Thursday launched Fliq, a social networking application for Mac. Fliq allows users to transfer photos, contacts and notes to other members on the same network. Previously only available on the iPhone, the Mac version integrates Address Book and iPhoto content for additional capabilities. A drag function can be used to move text and images from anywhere on the computer and then drop ...
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TroopTube gives US forces and families their own networking site (Guardian Unlimited)
Eighteen months after American troops were banned from using a number of social networking websites, the Pentagon yesterday unveiled its latest plan to prevent classified material leaking on to the internet: its own version of YouTube. The US military pulled back the curtains on TroopTube, a video-sharing website it hopes will satisfy both the demand for communication from serving members ...
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Study Recommends Online Gaming, Social Networking For Kids (Slashdot)
Blue's News pointed out a report about a study sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation which found that online gaming and social networking are beneficial to children, teaching them basic technical skills and how to communicate in the Information Age. The study was conducted over a period of three years, with researchers interviewing hundreds of children and monitoring thousands of hours of online ...
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Review: 3's INQ1 (Guardian Unlimited)
Should the INQ1 - 3's new "Facebook phone" - be mentioned in the same sentence as the iPhone, G1 and Storm ? I think it should. OK, it is not a touchscreen device, but it does do exactly what those devices do: it (horrible word) "mobilises" existing PC-based online behaviours. Here's the thing: watch a lot of - especially younger - people sitting in front of a computer and what are they ...
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Woman Who Posed as Boy Testifies in Case That Ended in Suicide of 13-Year-Old (New York Times)
A young woman told a federal jury that she had posed as a teenage boy in a series of e-mail messages to a 13-year-old girl that ended in the girl?s expressing suicidal thoughts and hanging herself.
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Blind student marches to the beat of her own drum (Waco Tribune-Herald)
By Van Darden
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Zhura Releases World's First Online, Collaborative Editor for Comic Book Writers (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Zhura, creator of online performance writing tools, rolls out its most feature-rich release yet with a groundbreaking Comic Book Format, Word and RTF Import/Export, Social Networking Script Posts to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, and much more.
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My Space jury hears about teen's suicide (CNN)
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Dead teen's mom testifies in Internet suicide case (CNN)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tina Meier often sat with her daughter while she was online to ensure nothing fishy was happening. Lori Drew wanted to find out what kind of nasty rumors were being spread about her daughter.
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Tech guru tells youth to return to idealism (The Monterey County Herald)
SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley insiders call it the O'Reilly Radar: Tim O'Reilly's uncanny ability to spot a technology revolution before it happens. But lately the entrepreneur, investor and book publisher has been busier trying to incite the next one.
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