Social-networking sites going global
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SAN FRANCISCO - About 80% of the world's estimated 1.2 billion Internet users are outside the USA, according to Computer Industry Almanac.
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A vast online network is being used to promote social and environmental responsibility.
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The social networking site lost out to MySpace and Facebook in the U.S., but it's found a new life across the Pacific
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Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that has mainly focused on college students, is preparing to open its membership to everyone.
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Blog network, which began as a single celebrity-gossip property and has since expanded to a whole set of women's lifestyle titles, is adding a social-shopping site.
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Social networks that tap the interests and buying power of traditionally reserved groups like the bookish are a small but growing force on the Web.
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Social network firms reveal tools and technologies that aim to make the sites more than places to keep in touch.
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Facebook Inc, the social-network  site that has enjoyed explosive growth in new members over the  past three months, said it plans to let users tell the rest of  the world how to find them on the site.
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By Maria Puente  Think teens and twentysomethings hog all the online attention? Time to shove the teenyboppers aside: It's Grandma and grandkids -- some too young to read -- who are forging the newest interactive social networks in cyberspace.
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Membership growth in social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook in all regions is expected to peak in 2009 and level off by 2012.
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Researchers learn that social network users are willing to sell their personal data for site features.
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Social  networking Web sites have fired up industry deal headlines the  past couple of years -- from News Corp.'s ground-breaking  acquisition of MySpace to the recent purchases by the Walt  Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.'s Logo network of Club Penguin and  DowneLink.com, respectively.
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Cisco Systems, the biggest vendor in IP (Internet Protocol) networking, is diversifying into social networking.
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Company is developing software to help big media companies integrate social networking and community into their Web sites.
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For business or pleasure? Reg Technology Panel Over the past two or three years, zanily named social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr and Twitter seem to have come from nowhere to wheedle their way into just about every aspect of online life, both in business and pleasure. Such facilities share a handful of simple, but powerful core features: each will enable information sharing of some form, will have some kind of community orientation and will be constructed in a way that several of the blighters can be merged (or should I say, âmashed upâ) into clever, multifaceted concoctions of collaborative capability.â¦
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A new study says the big social networking sites are splitting up along familiar lines.
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By Janet Kornblum  Facebook, the online networking site once the exclusive terrain of college students, will soon be opening up to the world.