Virtual pals 'soar in importance'
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Virtual communities are as important as their real-world counterparts, many members of online communities believe.
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Marketers are turning to unusual personalities who offer the kind of novelty and freshness that young people might blog about, link to and comment on in chats.
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âGrowing Up Onlineâ asks an increasingly important question: What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age steeped in a virtual world seemingly outside parental control?
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E-mail, text message or cellphone call? Making contact can be an adventure.
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While young people embrace the Web with  real or virtual friends and their cell phone is never far away,  relatively few like technology and those that do tend to be in  Brazil, India and China, according to a survey.
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Bill Thompson loooks at how the social web is transforming friendships and the way we view the world.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The big idea came on a trip: Ted Morgan and Michael Shean used Wi-Fi signals in their travels so often to pick up e-mail, they saw a business opportunity in their future.
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Scrabulous, a Scrabble-like application which lets Facebook members to play one another online, has been experiencing booming popularity.
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As the virtual world booms, users yearn for something more than a subpar search engine--and work is now under way.
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While young people embrace the Web with real or virtual friends and their mobile phone is never far away, relatively few like technology and those that do tend to be in Brazil, India and China, according to a survey.
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks
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While young people embrace the Web with  real or virtual friends and their mobile phone is never far  away, relatively few like technology and those that do tend to  be in Brazil, India and China, according to a survey.
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The same Internet that's making so much of the world just a virtual click away is revolutionizing the way the US tourism industry entices people to come visit in person.
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Politicians look for help online with the popular networking site facebook.com
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Teenagers still value phone calls and face-to-face meetings with friends even as they frequent online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace, a new study finds.
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The popularity of Friends Reunited and other internet websites was today blamed for helping to fuel a rise in divorces. Leading counselling group Relate said the growing number of cases in which people met
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Who needs postcards? Use high-tech ways to stay in touch while you're \