TargetX Helps Colleges Create Their Own Social Networks for Student Recruiting
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Interactive recruiting firm TargetX is making it possible for colleges  to host social networks that resemble MySpace or Facebook so prospective  students can come together online.
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Forget matchmaking. Researchers should use social networks to land matching funds. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.
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Facebook has been fighting claims from the founders of ConnectU that its founder stole the idea from them. Now another Harvard classmate of theirs claims that he actually created the social networking system.
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Social-networking principles have spawned a lending marketplace that lets individuals make loans to almost anyone.
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At Barnard College in New York, administrators read over lifestyle surveys and even a student essay in their efforts to make a successful freshman roommate match. At Michigan, they separate the smokers but leave the rest to chance. The University of Utah lets freshmen find their own roommates from anonymous profiles online.
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Companies tapping into a growing industry called in 'social media' will use an upcoming Arizona tech conference to showcase a new batch of online tools. The idea is to make the web a better medium for sharing information.
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Organised crime gangs are targeting students in a bid to recruit skilled hackers, says a report.
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A space for you to share school/college experiences with celebrities -- before they made it big.
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Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites have become the top tool for hiring IT staff, a new survey among recruitment companies reveals.
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Social networking sites are called 'better than print' for recruiting IT staff.
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More colleges and universities are embracing music services for their students in an effort to cut down on peer-to-peer traffic that clogs school networks and puts students at risk for lawsuits. By Katie Dean.
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Giving into user demand, the networking site LinkedIn will soon start letting its users post photos with their personal profiles.
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Attendees at this year&#146;s PowerSchool University ramped up their student information system skills with the new PowerSchool 4.0 and augmented their development activities through peer networking. [Aug 3]
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College parties met business e-mail on Wednesday as Facebook Inc. said it is adding its social-networking platform to Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices.
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The Society for Information management is expanding to high schools its programs for piquing user interest in an IT career
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Invited testers evaluate 'next generation' network that allows friends to edit friends.
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There is much to discover on the Facebook, the online community for college students, such as which cute guy already has a girlfriend and which girl thinks she's hot but, whatever, check out her skanky picture.