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The Facebook Promise: Cool Or Just Cold

May. 18, 2009
Do you Facebook? Why do you Facebook? How many friends do you have? How many Facebook friends do you have? Is there a difference? Should there be a difference? We could have quite a conversation on these four questions, if only we could actually converse. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and all the...
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IBM's 'business-grade' social networking

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. computer giant IBM Corp. Monday unveiled social-networking software like MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr, but for corporate use. IBM's Lotus Connections, which IBM dubbed "business-grade social computing," lets business people post personal profiles abo

Social networking sites still popular

NEW YORK, May 12 (UPI) -- MySpace led in first place of ten popular social networking sites that collectively grew 47 percent year-over-year, according to Nielson//NetRatings.
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler