Tag: SOCIAL

Are you a fan of 'World of Warcraft' but wish it was a little bit cuter? Then check out 'Hello Kitty Online.' That's right, the ambassador of all things cute and Japanese is getting her own Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game or MMORPG. Currently the online world is in a "closed beta testing phase", meaning it's not yet open to the public, but it should be officially opened very ...

Trend-setter-aimed cell phone service provider Helio is making some moves aimed at drawing in more customers to its service and increasing its revenue. Monday brought an announcement of a $99 unlimited everything plan -- unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited data. And now, Helio has announced a partnership with BuzzD, the company behind the mobile sites for Time Out New York and ...

Facebook is definitely encroaching on MySpace's space, if yesterday's Microsoft/Facebook news is any indication, but the formerly student-only social networking site is busy going after another sophisticated, most-likely-well-educated, professional, or at least famous crowd -- the BlackBerry set. Need proof? Look no further than the new mobile Facebook application for BlackBerry from Research ...

Vanishing staplers aren't the only employee-related phenomena bleeding the corporate world dry. According to a new study by U.K.-based employment law firm Peninsula, roughly £130 million (or about $264 million U.S.) is lost per day by British corporations due to office workers dillydallying on Facebook. That's the equivalent of 233 million employee hours per month. And British companies ...

In his quest to leave no social-networking stone unturned, Barack Obama has joined the professional networking service LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site that allows you to do many of the standard social networking things such as send messages, connect with your friends, and create profiles, but instead of listing the bands you like and fending off requests from ...

A Web 2.0 app that lists Web 2.0 apps? That's just too meta to pass up. Go2Web20.net is an interactive listing of other so-called Web 2.0 apps available online. The list is presented as a gargantuan mosaic of mini logos. Everything is there. And we mean everything: Google Docs & Spreadsheets, tons of social networking services and news aggregators, a cool contact management system named ...

Hope Cummings of the University of Michigan and Elizabeth Vandewater from the University of Texas at Austin recently finished a study on how video game usage affects how children use their time. According to the study, boys who play video games spend less time reading, while gamer girls spend less time on their homework. Time socializing with family and friends, however, does not suffer at the ...

In a bid to better compete with YouTube for the eyes and ears of Web users (but not in a creepy, serial killer kind of way), MySpace is re-launching the less than impressive video component of its site. Tomorrow, MySpace Videos will be torn down like the Stardust Casino to be resurrected as a separate site, MySpace TV. The most important change, other than the new URL, is that you no longer ...

Where do you go when it's time to sell your Internet startup for millions of dollars? If that startup happens to be a German Xerox copy of the Twitter micro-blogging service, the answer is eBay. That's what the owners of dukudu are doing. Unfortunately for them, it doesn't look like they're going to strike it Internet rich ... the auction is currently sitting at a paltry 12,605 Euros, or just shy ...

The attorneys general of North Carolina, Connecticut, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania have issued a letter to MySpace asking the social networking giant to supply a list of the registered sex offenders who use the site. According to a statement by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, the demand comes after law enforcement agencies in those states identified 200 ...