Missouri Woman Indicted on Charges of Using MySpace to ‘Cyber-Bully’ 13-Year-Old Who Later Committed Suicide
LOS ANGELES, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A Missouri woman was
indicted today on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on the
social networking Web site MySpace, U.S. Attorney for the Central District
of California Thomas P. O’Brien announced today. The woman posed as a
teenage boy who feigned romantic interest in a 13 year-old girl, who later
committed suicide after the “boy” spurned her and told her, among other
things, that the world would be a better place without her. Read more
Friendster, Largest Social Network In Asia, Now In Vietnamese
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, May 15 /PRNewswire/ — Friendster, Inc.
(http://www.friendster.com) today announced that Friendster.com is
available in Vietnamese, allowing Friendster users and visitors a greater
choice of languages with which to navigate the site, enter content and use
Friendster’s complete set of social networking features. The 18 million
Internet users in Vietnam and Vietnamese around the world can now easily
join and use Friendster, the pioneer of social networking that is now the
8th largest website globally of any kind based on traffic.(1)
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SecondSpace Launches Web Sites in Canada and the UK With World’s Largest Selection of Vacation Homes and Land for Sale
WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire/ — National Association of REALTORS(R)
Midyear Conference — SecondSpace, Inc., the leading online marketplace
exclusively focused on second homes and recreational retreats, today
announced the launch of ResortScape.CA, ResortScape.Co.UK, and
LandWatch.Co.UK. These new Web sites help Canadian and UK residents find
their perfect second home from over 600,000 vacation properties, new
developments, luxury condos, villas, ski chalets, cottages, homesites,
ranches and acreages in highly desirable destinations in the U.S., Canada
and over 40 other countries. The sites are powered by SecondSpace’s highly
scalable Web services platform and an intelligent listings switch which
sorts over 1.5 million property listings to determine those that uniquely
match the “second home” lifestyle. Read more
Photos: Three Popular TripAdvisor Travel Apps Now on MySpace
NEWTON, Mass., May 14 /PRNewswire/ — TripAdvisor(R), the world’s
largest travel community, today announced that it has launched three of the
web’s top travel-focused social applications on MySpace, the world’s most
popular social network. The applications, Cities I’ve Visited(TM), Local
Picks(TM) and Traveler IQ Challenge(TM) developed by Travelpod(R) have been
downloaded by more than six million users, and each provide the MySpace
audience with unique ways to share travel information with friends, to
challenge each other and to learn. Empowered by MySpace’s newly announced
Developer Platform (http://developer.myspace.com), TripAdvisor was able to
easily test and deploy the three popular applications in a few short weeks.
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Leading Provider of Street Team and Promotions Solutions Adopts Widgets to Drive Growth on Social Networks
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 /PRNewswire/ — Gydget, the social marketing
platform that allows bands to connect with their audiences on social
networking and fan-based Web sites today announced that Fancorps has
integrated Gydget into its street team management software solution.
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Mashable Announces 7-City US Summer Event Tour
The Web 2.0 Community’s Preeminent Networking Event Comes to a City
Near You! Read more
PBwiki Celebrates 3rd Anniversary and 500,000 Wikis With Special Wiki Giveaway
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 13 /PRNewswire/ — PBwiki, Inc.,
http://www.pbwiki.com, the world’s largest provider of business and
educational hosted wikis, today announced that it will celebrate the 3rd
anniversary of its founding and crossing the 500,000 wiki mark by giving
lifetime premium upgrades to wikis 499,999, 500,000, and 500,001. Read more
MeeMix Launches Personalized Web 2.0 Video Channels
TEL-AVIV, Israel, May 13 /PRNewswire/ — MeeMix Internet Radio
announced today the launch of free music video channels, enabling members
full access to their personalized music stations in twin audio and video
formats. The company’s taste prediction technology combined with YouTube’s
extensive video catalogue will allow a unique user experience akin to
watching ones own personal MTV channel — Web 2.0 style.
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Mobile 2.0 and Web 2.0 Leaders, Funambol and Laszlo, Partner to Provide Rich Internet Application and Mobile Messaging Solution
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and SAN MATEO, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ –
Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by
open source, and Laszlo Systems, a global leader in Rich Internet
Application (RIA) software and developer of the OpenLaszlo open source
development platform, today announced that they are integrating the
commercial versions of their award-winning Mobile 2.0 and Web 2.0 messaging
solutions. Read more
Web 2.0 Technology Will Drive Next-Generation Telecom Services, Heavy Reading Finds
NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire/ — The stunning success of Web 2.0
applications is forcing telecom service providers around the world to speed
up their next-gen service plans, leading to the deeper integration of
Web-based technologies with telecom application servers, according to a
major new report from Heavy Reading (http://www.heavyreading.com), the market
research division of TechWeb’s Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com). Read more