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As a Prosperity Cast Network Mentor/Leader of the Inner Circle and a Professional Marketer we share such informative marketing techniques and strategies on tayloring your marketing efforts to a niche audience.

Source: AlterNet.org
I know it's uncharitable of me to say I hate Facebook.com, because, after all, I have a Facebook profile and I log in to the infernal site several times a week. But I do hate it, and I'm not afraid to say why.

Source: The New York Times
Aiming to address the privacy concerns of disenchanted users, Facebook.com said on Tuesday that it was trying to make it easier for people to delete their accounts permanently from the social networking site.

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Can an Internet-based social networking application link citizens, journalism and community action? For this study, we developed a "Web 2.0" application called Promise Tahoe ("Promise"), designed to create a platform for community problem solving through collective action.

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People who specialize in Web security are saying Web 2.0 as it is now can't be secured. Should we keep on this path?

Source: The New York Times
Microsoft has long been a software engineering culture in which huge projects like Windows Vista are developed and tested by teams of hundreds, and whose completion time is measured in a large fraction of decades.

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Site Pro News offers insight into the world of Social Networking.

Source: New Influencer
New Influencer puts the release of the catch-phrase infused Social Media 2.0 product in perspective.

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KonoLive, the instant collaboration software, announced its global launch today at DEMO 08, the premier launch venue for new products, technologies and companies. KonoLive is the instant collaboration software that is defining the future of knowledge sharing.
Source: TechCrunch
The Microsoft is evil meme is alive and well this week as many digest Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover offer for Yahoo.

Source: Australian News Network
AFTER years of booming sales supported by videotapes, DVDs and the internet, the adult film industry is being challenged by easy video-sharing websites offering explicit content for free.

Source: New Influencer
The New Influencer blog presents some interesting ideas on where social media is headed in 2008.

Source: The Washington Post
Microsoft 's $44.6 billion offerto purchase Yahoois a dramatic statement from a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging Web business models for so long, it faced becoming an also-ran in the Web 2.0 economy.
Source: PRWeb
Jennings Public Relations & Advertising (JPRA) recently generated $1 million in online sales leads using social media and viral public relations tactics for the Metropolitan, a new downtown Kansas City condo development.
Source: TechCrunch
Not profitable. Yes. Although this does seem to make them somewhat fragile if the advertising money runs out in web 1.0 style. But it is hard to argue about the product and user base. Unless you are funding of course. Interesting year ahead.

Source: secularstudents.org
MySpace again deleted the Atheist and Agnostic Group (35,000 members). This deletion, due largely to complaints from people who find atheism offensive, marks the second time MySpace has cancelled the group since November 2007.

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After months of rumblings and announcements, MySpace is finally getting ready to pull the trigger on its long-awaited platform for developers. Starting today, programmers can sign up to register for the MySpace API program, which will go live on February 5th.

Source: The New York Times
Conspicuously missing from the appeal, which asserted that human nature is not just driven by greed but also by concern for our fellow beings, was any reference to the work and thinking of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

In my recent research on Social Media and Web 2.o, I have found that we (the people) are making the choices on the web. We decide what we see, read , hear, when we like. Lately, I have had a great deal of trouble or issues with my cable company.
Source: TechCrunch
Hubdub is a startup news forecaster that allows users to track news stories, predict their outcomes and compete with other news junkies.
Source: CNET News.com
If Yahoo could be placed on a psychiatrist's couch, the Internet giant would be told it was suffering from an identity crisis.
Source: CBC
It's one of the most over-hyped and least understood terms in the online world, but when Web 2.0 is done really well, it's a technology that leaps off our computer screens and into our lives. And it's already having real effects on our everyday behaviour.

Source: Slate
The publishing industry solicits reviews from Amazon's top reviewers. Meanwhile, Amazon itself claims that the review system is a way to step outside publishing spin and hear directly from other readers.
Source: GigaOM
Netvibes, with today's release of the latest version of its personalized start page service, Ginger, thinks it finally sees a way to revenue.