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Facebook was the top-searched term in the US in 2009

According toan analysis by Experian Hitwise, “Facebook” was the top-searched term in the US in 2009, accounting for 0.67% of all internet searches.
Facebook moved up from the 10th spot in 2008 to the top spot in 2009. MySpace was the second searched term in 2009, followed by Craigslist, YouTube. Yahoo Mail was fourth. Social networking–related [...]

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Religion Finds Home On IPhones, Social Networks (NPR)

Technology is producing a new form of religious interaction that pastors, rabbis and other religious leaders are embracing. There are over two dozen Bible apps for smart phones. And beyond Scripture, people are using gadgets for devotional purposes to enrich their lives.
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People spending more time on social sites (via AP)

According to Nielsen,  americans have been devoting 17 percent of all their Internet time to social networks like Facebook and blogging Web sites like Blogger.
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Nebraska law to keep sex offenders off MySpace

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has signed a bill to prevent registered sex offenders from using social-networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.
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Nokia Opens App Store with Social Networking for Users

Nokia is attempting to make a splash this summer with a new phone and a new app store to go with it. Executives from the Finnish phone maker have been teasing about an application store dubbed Ovi for some time, but this week Niklas Savander, Nokia’s executive vice president of services, told Forbes it will [...]

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Inbox Insider: E-mailers should embrace social media

Social media has been a scary word in the e-mail space since MySpace got big back in 2006. There has been talk that social media would kill e-mail and new channels like Twitter and Facebook will mean the demise of e-mail.
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Last Bytes: A MySpace Music Diagnostic and Prognosis

MySpace Music launched with fanfare six months ago, but it’s been little noticed since. Here are five steps MySpace can take to improve it. [Wired.com ] Facebook by the numbers: profitability next year? [Business Insider ] Just because the Conficker Worm was …
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Career Connection Network Launches Career Social Networks

Career Connection Network (CCN), developer of the newest social networking technology being launched in December, is partnering with Fortune 500 brands to build Career Social Networks for top professionals.
The Career Connection Network platform creates Online Communities which are one-stop destination sites for professionals to receive fresh content and network with peers across multiple practice areas [...]

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