New free iPhone app for Jazz fans

If you are a jazz fan who owns an iPod Touch or an iPhone, a new application has been launched to cater for your music taste. Carl Saunders has launched a new iPhone application which is free of charge to any iPod Touch or iPhone users. Read more

Children evading Facebook, Bebo and MySpace age restrictions

It has been reported that almost a quarter of children aged between eight and twelve have been evading the age restrictions that have been put in place from social networking sites. Those sites that children have managed to evade are Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.

These result were taking from a poll which was commissioned by Garlik, it shows that over 75,000 children are illicitly using the sites. The alarming fact shows that children are allowing themselves to become exposed to communicate with strangers. This news is a little alarming.

Parents have been doing their utmost to try and stop this from happening, many have been secretly logging on to their children’s social networking pages to see if they have been doing anything reckless on there.

Tom Ilube, chief executive of Garlik has said “The fact that parents feel compelled to monitor their children on this scale should send a powerful message to the big social networking sites.”

Both Bebo and Facebook have an age limit of 13 while Myspace has set their age limit at 14. Also an alarming fact is that a quarter of 8 to 15 year olds have admitted of having strangers as friends on their social networking page. A fifth of that figure also said that they have met these strangers that they befriended online.

It is now time that these social networking sites did more to stop this from happening. But this is such a hard thing to monitor, this will take sometime to come up with a perfect solution.

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Bebo joins in on alien activities

The wonderful world of the internet manages to come up with some bizarre stories from time to time and this latest one is no different. It appears that the popular social networking site, Bebo is set to become the first organisation to allow members of the public to record messages or images and relate
them to a representation of life.

The way this will work is that Bebo members will be able to send their messages to Bebo until the closing date of the event, which is 30th September. The top 500 messages will be chosen and then sent off to the ‘nearest planet’ outside our solar system, interesting stuff.

These messages will be sent using a state of the art radar telescope from the National Space Agency of Ukraine on the 9th October, aiming to reach a planet named Gliese 581c. This process isn’t as simple as it sounds though as the planet in question is over twenty light years away, and according to ‘solar system rules’, the messages will take twenty years to arrive!

This project is all part of the ‘Message from Earth’ and will launch on August 4th, internet voting will take place to determine which messages get sent into space.

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Paedophiles to be banned from using social network sites like Facebook and Bebo

The latest news reports that Paedophiles could be banned from social network sites like Facebook and Bebo, known convicted Paedophiles should not be allowed to use these sites full stop.

This new measure has been introduced by the Government and that registered sex offenders will indeed be monitored online as well as police being able to pass on their email addresses to social network sites.

This is all part of the Home Office taskforce on online child protection and they say that there are indeed fears that paedophiles are masquerading as young people and could possibly be grooming future victims.

We all know for example that Facebook allows you to put personal details on profiles such as phone numbers, email addresses and so forth, it all seems pretty easy for Paedophiles to find their next victim.

What are you views about Paedophiles using social network sites, and are you making sure that your children are not putting detailed information on these sites?

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Social Network of Choice, Where do you go? Myspace, Facebook, Bebo or another

There are thousands of social networks online but only a few attract all the people who join these communities and the top three are MySpace, Facebook and Bebo.

Where do you go: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo or another?

Robert Colvile from the Telegraph posted an interesting article about how online social networks are “split along class lines” and the choice that you make reveals a lot about you. It is true MySpace, Bebo and Facebook are very different and attract different people. MySpace is the major name in social networking but over time this site has become much more spammy and sites like Facebook work because it’s profiles are much more simple.

In the end you will go where your friends are, if they stop using one social network you will move on. It’s really all about people and you will go where your people are.

What’s your favorite social network?

Time Warner’s AOL buys social networking site Bebo for £420m

We all know that social networking sites are powerful for promotion and News Corp knew this a long time ago when they brought MySpace. Today we are hearing that Time Warner’s AOL is buying social networking site Bebo for £420m, that’s more than the £300m MySpace was brought for but today MySpace is valued at £7.5bn.

With 40 million members worldwide, that makes Bebo the second most popular social network site in the UK. This is what Ron Grant (AOL’s president), had to say “Bebo’s dynamic management team recognises the Internet is less about destination and more about connecting people, culture and lifestyles”.

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Orange Updates Animal Pay Monthly Packages

Orange has updated their Animal mobile phone packages to reflect the changing ways that people use their mobile phones. From the 1st of March the Panther, Canary, Dolphin and Raccoon will now include mobile internet as an inclusive benefit.

The Dolphin 40 package will have unlimited access to the social networking site Bebo. “By including the internet in our packages we are reflecting how people are using their phones. The changes make mobile internet and social networking even more accessible”. The Head of Pay Monthly at Orange said.

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MySpace Being Sued For Role In Teen Suicide

As we all know there are many social networking sites out there like BeBo, MySpace and Facebook for everyone to go on and network with friends and family but lately there seem to be in the centre on suicides the question is why?

Back in 2006 Kristin Helms became one of those victims and there has been many since. Read more

People are getting fed up with Facebook: are you one of them?

I was surprised to hear that people are starting to get fed up with Facebook; people are calling it Facebook fatigue. Since the popular launch of this social network site, Facebook has seen its first drop in Read more

Bone Conduction Earphone from Vibe Body Sound

These earphones have been designed to give the wearer sound clarity and quality and also to help reduce death.

Apparently when people wear earphones Read more

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Scrabble board game makers and Facebook copyright issues

The makers of the board game Scrabble have asked Facebook which has overtaken MySpace and Bebo to become the most popular social networking site in the UK to pull their popular Scrabulous game from its website because of copyright issues.

It said that Hasbro and Mattel have jointly written to the US head office of the social networking site calling for the application to be removed. Read more

Facebook vs Bebo - What’s Your Favourite?

The last few years we have seen bebo become the next generation social networking site where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with Read more

Facebook Worth £5 Billion In Just Three Years: Microsoft Want 5 Percent Stake

Unless you have been hiding under a rock lately, you would’ve heard about Facebook. The social networking site has been going from strength to strength recently and has seen it’s value go from nothing to £5 billion in just three years. Read more

Government Takes Action Against Cyber-Bullies

The Teachers’ Unions are backing moves to abolish ‘cyber-bullying’ due to new figures showing a third of 12 to 15-year-olds suffer online. Internet bullies have been targeting networking sites like MySpace, YouTube, Bebo and Facebook to taunt their victims when the school gates are closed. Read more

Yahoo to test Mash an experimental social network service: replacement for Yahoo 360

Search Engine giant Yahoo is testing Mash, which is an experimental social network service, where friends and family can share their lives with each Read more

No Genuine Friends on MySpace, Facebook and Bebo

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Bebo will not get you any genuine, close friends.

Well that is what the Guardian is reporting about these popular communities, they have got their information from a survey by Dr Will Reader at Sheffield Hallam University.

Social networking will get you hundreds of “acquaintances”, but the study has found that these do not become real world close friends Read more

MySpace launches it’s own fashion channel!

It already has it’s own sections for music and videos, but now the worlds most popular social networking website (ahead of Bebo, Facebook and Faceparty) has launched it’s own sub community to allow users to connect with celebrities, designers and brands from the fashion world! Read more

2 New Animal Networking Web Sites: Dogbook and Catbook

We have all heard of massive social networking website such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook but these sites are (usually) for people, humans.

Not many of us have heard of social networking websites for animals, pets. But now there is Read more

Photobucket Website Profile

Photobucket is a website where users can upload photos, images and video and share them with their friends, all for free!

Photobucket is Read more

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