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Investing and the Social Networking Life Cycle

By Kurt Cagle
July 18, 2008 | Comments: 8
Investing and the Social Networking Life Cycle
Social Networks have been around since the inception of bulleting board systems in the mid 1980s, and each one of them seems, for a time at least, to be the radical new paradigm that establishes how people will interact with one another over the web. Certainly, this seems to be the case to those investors (whether individual or corporate) who pay surprisingly stiff premiums in order to be a part of the next big wave, yet in truth social networking sites have a surprisingly consistent "life-cycle" that seems to play out regardless of the "angle" that the sites have.

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Social Networking and the Flock of Canadian Loonies

By Kurt Cagle
July 13, 2008 | Comments: 0
Social Networking and the Flock of Canadian Loonies
Flock 2.0 (http://www.flock.com) is a comparatively new browser, based upon Mozilla Firefox, that was designed from the ground up as a Social Networking "application". Designed to cover the major domains within that field - blogging, media manipulation, search, syndication and social community interaction - Flock represents a novel approach of using the browser in a dedicated fashion as both the vehicle and the gateway for devotees of social networking services.

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Let Our Congress Tweet. Sign the Petition.

By Timothy M. O'Brien
July 9, 2008 | Comments: 0
Let Our Congress Tweet. Sign the Petition.
Social network is just beginning to affect the way the governed relate to The Government. Let's not close the door on congressional access to tools like Twitter, Qik, and Identi.ca. The Sunlight Foundation urges the Congress to clarify rules and remove restrictions on member web use. If you want congress to let member tweet, sign the petition by tweeting.

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