Build your own social sites, Netscape founder says
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Ning, the latest startup of  Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, is looking to get a jump  ahead of MySpace and Facebook by giving consumers free tools to  create and operate specialized online social networks of their  own.
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Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen dives into the Web 2.0 arena with Ning's free toolkit for launching mini MySpace clones. By the Associated Press.
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The explosion of social networking sites such as MySpace.com and Second Life, along with free video sharing sites like YouTube.com, is making it increasingly difficult to protect children surfing the Internet, says Stephen Balkam, who founded a voluntary Web site rating system seven years ago.
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Social network MySpace is to allow third-party developers to build applications for the site.
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The social networking site that's more networking than social wants to go public.
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From an online travel organizer  to a real estate pricing game, the ideas of the newest Web  entrepreneurs are still finding attentive ears.
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"Mash" lets people create profiles for their friends and modify their profile.
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Netscape.com is on its way to being a portal page, so what's happening to their Social networking site? It will soon re-launch as Propeller.com.
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Jason Calacanis wishes he could be your Facebook friend, but he just can't. The Internet entrepreneur loves networking; the New Yorker magazine once wrote a profile of him called "The Connector." When people want to get from point A to point B, he's A and a half. But Calacanis now has several tho...
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The Web site has been fighting claims that its founder stole the idea. Now another man says he was the creator.
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Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen helped bring the Internet to the masses during the 1990s. Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outside the walls of social networking leaders MySpace.com and Facebook.com.
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Following Facebook's lead, MySpace will allow outside developers to create applications for its members.
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By Anonymous  Entrepreneur.com, the Web site for Entrepreneur magazine, highlights a new Web site, www.sportsvite.com.
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The co-founder of ClaimID says people know they have to let go of privacy to play in online communities. Monkeybites' Mike Calore blogs from Palo Alto, California.
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By Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 21--As a father, Mark Spaeth admits he has not wholeheartedly embraced these computer social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.   You know the rap. Young people post way too much personal information, leaving them vulnerable.
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Study exposes emerging tribes of social network sites
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Dan Farber, over at ZDNet, is reporting that LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, has made their plans clear to open up API's and create a developer platform. From CNET Blogs Network.