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Social Network Asks Whether You Are a Mentor or a Mentee

With Social Networks popping out like mushrooms after a mild May rain, this is the one that is the most business oriented that I've seen coming out in the past two months, except for Yahoo!'s Kickstart. The iMantri comes to embrace the National Mentoring Month in the United States, something I myself have n...

10 January 2008
08:06 GMT

Yahoo! Feeds Bebo with Social Applications as Bebo Grabs Facebook's Platform

Apart from the question in the subtitle, I have no further inquiries, your honor! It's good to see where the big rivals meet and exchange impressions, and even services. Earlier today, I read about Bebo's grabbing the Facebook platform for its own use, which gave rise to some very interesting questions lik...

13 December 2007
06:08 GMT

Buy and Shutdown Tactics Used by Yahoo with Social Network

What better way to close the week than with the destruction of a rival's business? Yahoo seems to think this is the way to go about things, as it bought BlueLithium, an ad network and forced it to pull the plug on its social network, MingleNow. We know this because the blog that announced the closing down direct...

7 December 2007
04:16 GMT

The Effects of Drugs on Sex, Health and Social Life

1. Causes of drug consume. There are over 200 million drug consumers worldwide. From "natural" to synthetic ("designer") drugs, they are aimed to induce an excitation and euphoria state; when we talk about stars, actors, famous singers, they usually go on with their addiction being pressured by the entourage (many si...

15 November 2007
14:06 GMT

Yahoo! Inbox 2.0 - New Social Network - AGAIN!

Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Mash, Yahoo! KickStart. All social networks, all from Yahoo! (though you might have gathered that by now), all new or closing. Nothing is really stable with the Sunnyvale, California based company. If you need another example, just check out the Yahoo Publishers Network, still in beta after many ye...

14 November 2007
06:21 GMT

Yahoo! Turning to Students

Announced a little over 2 months ago, on August the 30th, Yahoo Inc. is launching today the social networking service designed to help college students get the career help they so desperately need sometimes. It was developed by a young Yahoo unit charged with advancing product innovation, according to The Wall Street...

5 November 2007
10:34 GMT

Take That, Microsoft! Google Rolls Out OpenSocial!

The Mountain View company made what seems to be the smartest move to respond to its rivals' evolution into the social networking battle where the web firms are allying with top players to expand their technologies. Today, Google officially released OpenSocial, a set of APIs which can help the developers design s...

2 November 2007
04:28 GMT

Being Popular is on the Muscles

We may call ourselves Homo sapiens ("wise human"), but for a kid it is more important to be able to kick the ball or to be a good basketball partner. Athletic skills seem to be the key for social acceptance among school children: kids dislike Dexters, which are prone to sadness, isolation and social rejection in scho...

26 October 2007
04:52 GMT

Internet Addiction Means Less Sex

It is clear that everything in our life has something to do with the Internet, from news and information to shopping and entertainment. But for many of us this seems to have turned into a pathological obsession, affecting our social and even sex life. A survey aiming to assess the impact of technologies in people...

21 September 2007
14:06 GMT

Everybody Likes Social Websites. Hackers Are No Exception

When I said hackers like social websites, I didn't mean that they surf MySpace all day long searching for bands or who knows what. These guys are interested in the potential of these sites, in the resources they have and that the hackers could use in their criminal activity. In case you have not figured this out...

20 September 2007
09:59 GMT

Chinese Study Says Online Gaming is Bad. Doh!

We thought that only Americans and some lonely Europeans are worried about the online gaming influence on the general public, but now it seems that professor Tao Hongkai, from the Huazhong Normal University is joining forces with a study that clearly shows how bad games are for kids. I have witnessed these reports ov...

16 August 2007
03:36 GMT

Innovative Mobile Social Networking Platform from Intercasting and Sprint

Intercasting Corporation, a top US mobile media company, announced that its innovative mobile social networking platform called ANTHEM will become available in the near future on select Sprint phones. This new networking platform was developed to allow wireless carriers to bring web content and social networking to t...

18 July 2007
08:56 GMT

Sexual Selection Shaped Our Brains

Women are deceiving, men first hit and after that ask. This characterized us ever since we were just some "monkeys" in the forest, also shaping our brains differently. A new study published in the online journal BMC Biology shows that brain structures have developed differently in primate males and females due to div...

11 May 2007
05:08 GMT


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