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If the popularization of the digital camera made self-portrait photos feasible, then the proliferation of social Web (and online dating) sites has made them inevitable, even essential. As such, the practice has become a bit of an art for those who strive to capture the best shots. If you’re considering honing your own skills in [...]

(AP) — A Chinese government-backed think tank has accused the U.S. and other Western governments of using social networking sites like Facebook to spur political unrest and called for stepped-up scrutiny of the wildly popular sites.

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Divorce attorneys Leslie, left, and Ken Matthews are shown in the offices of their firm in Denver, Friday, June 25, 2010. They estimated 1 in 10 of their cases involves evidence plucked from social networking sites. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

(AP) — Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her [...]

Cisco Systems is looking to take popular social networking tools and tricks and bend and meld them into a platform that’s focused on business.
It’s a social way of dealing with everyday business, according to Murali Sitaram, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Enterprise Collaboration Platform. Sitaram is overseeing the development of Cisco Quad, a [...]

(PhysOrg.com) — The more social networking sites a person belongs to, the more willing they are to share personal information, accept the advice of others on those sites and then act on those suggestions according to recent findings presented by Penn State researchers.

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Lately, social networking sites have been bending over backwards to assure their users that user privacy is of utmost importance — but it may have all been in vain, as the Wall Street Journal discovered Thursday that several social networking sites are sharing, with advertisers, information that can be used to identify individuals.
A report in [...]

Microsoft is set to begin competing more directly with Apple in mobile phones when pre-orders of its two new feature phones, Kin One and Kin Two, begin online at Verizon Wireless this Thursday.
The Kin One, the smaller of the two handsets with a built-in 5-megapixel camera, will cost $49.99 with a two-year Verizon contract, while [...]

More than half of all users of social networks in the U.S. are posting information that could put them at risk from cyber criminals, according to a Consumer Reports study.
The magazine, which released its State of the Net survey today, noted that 52 percent of adults who use social networks, such as Facebook, Myspace, and [...]

Microsoft Outlook 2010 beta may still be weeks away from making the jump to general release, but that hasn’t stopped Xobni from creating a new version of its e-mail search tool that’s compatible with Outlook 2010. We tested out Xobni’s version 1.9.2 e-mail search assistant on Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 beta with good results. [...]

AOL confirmed today that social-networking site Bebo will either be sold or shuttered, a victim of a highly competitive landscape and a parent company that doesn’t want to invest to compete. The company will determine its fate by the end of May.
AOL, then part of Time Warner, bought Bebo for $850 million [...]