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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

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I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. I’m not a lawyer.

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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi called this "just a social graph" (or just a social network). Will google set it free in 2007 ? A community tag stream.

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The Cost of Free Technology for Nonprofits: Thoughts On Ning

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In those days, I was " circuit rider " where I traveled around New York State to work with very small local arts councils in rural areas. I was Jill of all trades, assisting with a wide range of technology needs, from training to installing local area networks. (Yes, Photo by Eurleif. So, if era of free 2.0

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

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What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action. .

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace. But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. See the New York Times coverage here.