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The secrets of a teen's Internet success
Insight MyYearbook.com, co-founded by 17-year-old Catherine Cook, is making millions in annual revenue after just two years.
Tags: Web sites
'Web 2.0' sites see traffic explosion
News Web sites championing user-generated content have seen a significant leap in traffic on the year ago period, according to statistics from research company comScore.
Tags: Web sites
Social networking 'white elephant' warning
News Social networking could turn out to be a costly "white elephant" for businesses that rush to invest in the technology, says analyst firm Gartner.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising
AOL ad revenue continues to slide
News Time Warner's unit saw its fourth-quarter revenue fall 23 percent year over year, with ad revenue dropping 18 percent.
Tags: Forecasting, Earning reports/forecasts, Advertising, America Online Inc., quarterly revenue, Bebo, operating loss, Advertisement, Forecasting, Earnings
UK to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
News The U.K. government's proposed Interception Modernisation Programme would enforce tracking and retention of all U.K. citizens' Web communications, including IM conversations.
Tags: Privacy, Mobile platforms/communications, MySpace, Traffic Data, data retention, Tim Berners-Lee, Bebo, Government, Internet Service, IMP
Microsoft spins out software protection tech
News The software maker, which already licenses out its product activation and licensing technology to other firms, is now creating a separate company to handle the task.
Tags: Software licensing, Patents, Bebo, social networking, Facebook, network, board of directors, Software licensing, Patents, Ireland
Amazon refuses to be tracked by Phorm
News The Web giant has attracted praise from digital-rights campaigners for opting out of having its domains tracked by the targeted-advertising firm.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, LiveJournal, British Telecommunications, European Union, Bebo, Amazon.com Inc., Facebook, blogging, U.K.
Facebook attacks UK govt Web-monitoring plans
News Chief privacy officer Chris Kelly says government proposals to track all social-networking traffic data would be unnecessary, impractical and possibly bad for business.
Tags: Privacy, Traffic Data, Attack, Bebo, Facebook, IM, monitoring, U.K., Internet Service Provider, Internet
Facebook fights new Koobface worm, another rogue app
News Popular social-networking site Facebook has been hit by what's believed to be the fourth rogue app in a week or so and is investigating the spread of a new variant of the Koobface worm.
Tags: Web 2.0, Viruses and worms, Cookie, Security, App, Worm, Trend Micro Inc., Bebo, Koobface, Server
Former Yahoo executive joins AOL
News Brad Garlinghouse's focused strategies lifted Yahoo to No. 1 in e-mail and IM. Now he intends to lead an Internet and mobile communications revival at AOL.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, America Online Inc., e-mail, AOL Instant Messenger, Facebook, IM, Flickr, acquisition, Web 2.0
Facebook opens up its platform
News Facebook has announced that the architecture for its developer platform will be made available to other social networking sites.
Tags: Web 2.0
Facebook scores euro funds
News The investment, likely to be in the millions, from Germany's Net-savvy Samwer brothers, will boost the social networking site's Europe expansion.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising
Yahoo, Microsoft in informal talks
News A lot has changed over the past two weeks, compared to February 1 when Redmond issued its unsolicited buyout bid for the online giant.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Mergers, Acquisitions
Ads--the new malware delivery format
News "Scareware" and other malicious content are sneaking onto high-profile Web sites via ad delivery systems that are not secure, experts say.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Malware, Site, e-mail, New York Times Co., trojan horse, ad network, Web Site, Web
Finjan offers free SecureTwitter browser plug-in
News New SecureTwitter plug-in can protect people from worms, Trojans, and other malware attacks spread through Twitter, Gmail, MySpace, and other sites.
Tags: Security applications/tools, Twitter, Site, Finjan Software Inc., Plug-in, Web Browser, Social Media, question mark, Web browser plug-in, Facebook
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