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Social Networking Safety Saga Continues

The Online Publishers Association newsletter talks about security and advertising on Myspace: For $580 million, News Corp. bought the hottest of the social networking sites, MySpace, with its 55 million members and #5 spot in online traffic. But it also has its hands...

Class Action Lawsuit Against SpringStreet Networks

A friend IM’d me last night and asked what was up with this, which appears to be a class action lawsuit against SpringStreet Networks. The NY State Court system documents pertaining to the lawsuit reveal: All natural persons who paid money to subscribe to a...

Location Based Flirting

SiliconBeat writes about Geovector, which puts a compass sensor in your cell phone, letting you point at places to retrieve information, read reviews, initiate calls and more. This is incredible stuff, although it’s available only in Japan for the time being....

Meetic Acquires Lexa.nl

Meetic has acquired LEXA.nl, one of the largest dating sites in the Netherlands, for $13.6 million. Meetic founder Marc Simoncini: LEXA was acquired by purchasing assets including 30,000 subscribers at the end of December 2005 – compared with 224,618...

Dating Legislation Passes Illinois House

One House in one state, still a long way to go. It is expected that a few states will pass the law, regardless of how difficult it will be to enforce. At this point, what does it matter if it passes in all 50 states? Does anyone besides dating site operators really...