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As web legend Andreessen joins Facebook we ask what happens next?
By: Davey Winder

One has changed the face of social networking, the other changed the face of the web. Now that Facebook and Marc Andreessen have joined forces who knows what will change next...


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Rhapsody DRM-free MP3 store takes on iTunes' dominance
By: Stephen Withers

A full range of unprotected MP3 tracks, full-length previews, competitive prices - will the Rhapsody music store from RealNetworks be the one that finally puts the squeeze on Apple's iTunes Store?


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Obama wins the Internet vote for tech President
By: Davey Winder

Barack Obama will follow you on Twitter, be your friend on Facebook and ask for your advice on LinkedIn. Will McCain 'get' the power of the Internet before it is too late?

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Ubuntu MID makes Linux upwardly mobile
By: Stephen Withers

Ubuntu Linux owner Canonical has launched Ubuntu into the realm of mobile Internet devices with a release called Ubuntu MID. The new version of arguably the world's most popular desktop Linux distribution initially targeted the Samsung Q1U though the OS also runs on Intel's Atom-based Crown Beach development system.


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Murdoch trashes Facebook as MySpace gets out-socialled
By: Stephen Withers

Rupert Murdoch is putting on a grand show of pretending not to be fazed by reports that Facebook is outdoing MySpace in terms of unique visitors. However, he wasn't very good at hiding his real feelings at an advertising event in Cannes.


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Google Earth helps teens party in other people's pools
By: Davey Winder

A new craze driven by Google Earth and Facebook is keeping UK police forces  busy. Teenagers are locating houses with swimming pools and arranging illegal parties known as dips.


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Analyst asks: Facebook on the down and out thanks to applications?
By: Stephen Withers

The rise and rise of the 'crap app' - that is, the quality-free Facebook application -  looks like causing major problems for the venerable social networking site. At least one analyst credits this as causing a stack of key Facebook stats to go into a serious slump since January. What's going on?


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What do women want? An OFF button!
By: Lia Timson

IT&T women have spoken. They love their jobs, want to stay in their fields and telecommute so they can manage work and family, but they need to separate work life from personal life to ensure they don’t go nuts.


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Put your MySpace profile in your other online spaces
By: Stuart Corner

In a move that appears to be aimed at making it the heart of the growing world of social networking, MySpace has made it possible for users to share their MySpace public profile data to websites of their choice automatically: initially Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter.


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Microsoft better for Web 2.0 development than Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook, or PayPal
By: Stuart Corner

Software developers active in Web 2.0 development have ranked Microsoft’s MSN/Live Windows Developer Program higher than developer programs offered by Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook, or PayPal.

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MySpace apps arms race: the Murdoch Empire strikes back
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Striking back against the rebel Facebook alliance, the MySpace Empire has announced the public launch of its “Applications Gallery”. No longer in ‘beta’ phase, the App Gallery is now fully operational, as the full counter strike against Facebook takes shape.


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Google closed source app engine does evil
By: David M Williams

Google, the monolithic empire which once could do no wrong, has churned out another new product for its web 2.0+ conga line. This time Google App Engine gives the great promise of letting you serve your own applications to the world using the grunt of Google-powered machinery. However, it’s not the saviour it purports to be, perverting the open source way.

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Beware: Your Facebook profile could send you broke
By: Ian Grayson

It might be fun to share your personal details with the world via social networking sites, but it could also be your financial undoing.

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Beware hijacked Facebook accounts, vendor warns
By: Stephen Withers

Spammers are using hijacked Facebook accounts to post misleading links to dodgy sites, a security vendor has warned.


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MySpace, Yahoo! and Google give OpenSocial a big boost
By: Stuart Corner

MySpace and Yahoo! have backed Google's OpenSocial set of APIs for social networking: together with Google they will form the OpenSocial Foundation to facilitate the development of social networking applications that will work across multiple web sites.


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Apple ‘forcing’ Safari on XP iTunes users - ‘choice’ or click trickery?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

If you’ve got iTunes installed on your Windows XP computer, you’ve also got the ‘Apple Software Updater’ installed. It’s there to ensure you’re always informed of the latest iTunes update, but now it will also have Safari 3.1 ‘ticked’ by default, ready to download and install when you click the ‘install’ button. Is this right - or wrong?


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AOL to buy social network site Bebo for $US850m
By: Stuart Corner

AOL has dived into the social networking market making a $US850 million splash to buy Bebo, one of the UK's largest social networking sites, and No 1 in New Zealand and Ireland ad number 3 in the US.


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Microsoft to deliver ads for WSJ
By: Stephen Withers

Microsoft has scored another high-profile client for its advertising delivery services in the form of the Wall Street Journal digital network.


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