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After  week of political posturing, the New York Times says that Myspace will hand over to state attorneys general the names, addresses and online profiles of thousands of known convicted sex offenders who have opened up accounts on the service. More than 7,000 profiles of convicted sexual predators have been removed as well. States must [...]

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The Firefox browser is going social. The Mozilla foundation, parent of Firefox, has announced Coop, a browser extension that incorporates social networking right in the Firefox browser. Bringing social networking right into the browser is something I have wished for for a long time. Why put up with Myspace and all the other badly designed [...]

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I logged into Myspace today and was greeted with multiple friend requests from too-good-to be-true women, all within two minutes of each other. That’s the first sign of spam, or is it that Myspace Friend Train I joined last year? Looks like it’s a relatively new variant of malware, at least that’s what Mashable says. [...]

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Facebook Gifts: Pushing the limits of rationality:

Yesterday I spoke with Bill Snow at BuyMyAffection. Bill thought I was really upset with him, and we proceeded to hash out the details and talk in more detail how his service operates and the vale to dating sites and singles.
Men buying stuff for women to win or keep [...]

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Om Malik asks if it’s time to rethink the whole concept of social networks:
Social networks are now cropping up like mushrooms after a monsoon, most of them slight variations on the MySpace1-Facebook2 model. Unfortunately that trend has pigeonholed the notion of social networks3 into a web-page paradigm, a virtual Rolodex that grows so big that [...]

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First is was family networking, then couples and now women, what’s next? A men’s social network? The Dude Network?
Oomph.net is described as Oxygen’s first social network. One of its twists: personality tests designed to help women find other women with similar interests and personalities. “Passion groups�—each led by an expert—are offered as another option for [...]

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Are dating site operational costs higher than social networks? Markus at PlentyOfFish says “operational costs of a dating site significantly higher then social networking sites.� I doubt that 100%. Come on Markus, enough with the hype, or at least back up your assertions. You know your numbers but sometimes they appear a bit too “bendy� [...]

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Advisor Garage is using dating site technology to help entrepreneurs & startups hook up with business advisors, mentors and potential investors.
Entrepreneurs search through Advisor’s ‘Advisory Pitches’ until an Advisor is found which corresponds to what the Entrepreneur’s new business needs. Alternatively, Advisor can search through the multiple entrepreneur elevator pitches until one looks attractive [...]

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Launched in 1999 by music marketing entrepreneur Clark Benson and Northwestern University fund-raiser Karen DeMars, eCRUSH was designed with viral marketing in mind, as members can send email “crushes� to non-members, who must then register with eCRUSH to digitally unmask their admirers.
The addition of eCRUSH is both a chance for Hearst to sell eCRUSH inventory [...]

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