SAN FRANCISCO - Monday, April 7, 2008 - imeem, the leading social media network, announced today it has acquired SNOCAP, the leading technology company for digital rights and content management. This strategic acquisition provides imeem with powerful content identification technology, a comprehensive Digital Registry, and an enhanced team of executive and engineering talent. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition also expands the mix of products and services the imeem social network offers to artists and music labels to help them take advantage of new opportunities to …

SEATTLE, WA (March 5, 2008) –iLike, the leading social music discovery service, today announced that more than 200,000 musicians, including leading artists from all genres of music, are actively using the iLike Universal Artist Dashboard™ to manage an online presence syndicated across Facebook, hi5, Bebo, and beyond. With 23 million users, iLike is now the leading music application on Facebook®, Bebo and hi5, expanding its presence from North America to the UK, Europe and Latin America. In the coming weeks, through Google OpenSocial, iLike will also be launching applications on …

While Digg.com may not be quite as heavily visited as sites like Myspace and Facebook, it provides an opportunity for any webmaster to generate free traffic and links to his or her website. First off, let me state that it is very possible to get thousands of hits in just one or two days using Digg. However, do not expect this rush of visitors to be overly profitable – at least not initially.
Digg users are almost all technically savvy, meaning they most likely will not click on your ads or …

Two U.S. pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday by lawyers representing Detroit’s police and fire retirement system and general retirement system, as well as “all…
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DOVER, Del. - Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft …

Facebook is the latest ‘hot’ thing in the Internet world. It’s a social networking site that is starting to rival the likes of MySpace and Friendster. While Facebook is a great way to interact with your friends, it’s also a top way to interact with business associates, customers and prospects. You can generate new leads to your business very quickly with Facebook.
The first thing you’d want to do is to gather all your business associates’ email information and add them to your friends list in Facebook. You can also add …

Flock, the Mozilla-based social web browser has made the announcement that everyone has been waiting for: they will now integrate with MySpace. Building on the MySpace Developer Platform, Flock will allow users to surf the web with their MySpace friends in their sidebar. At Tuesday’s MySpace Developer Platform kick-off, Flock demonstrated this integration by giving event attendees a sneak peak at the upcoming Flock features. Although details of the new functionality are limited at this point, we do know that the MySpace People …

PLease no more myspace. . . . We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots
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There’s a particular resource that any number of people in business overlook entirely. The resource is MySpace. MySpace, as most people are aware, is a social networking web site. The thinking about MySpace may tend to be that MySpace is a site for juveniles. The reality however is that MySpace has millions upon millions of members, and these members fall everywhere along the age line. Though many MySpace members may trend young, the notion that everyone on MySpace is a kid is just plain wrong.
If MySpace isn’t meant for the …

In case you are a MySpace user, you have discovered what an easy to read and fun profile looks like. The one problem is, you may not be aware of how to make or find out one. In about most of the cases when you see an awful MySpace layout, because its sloppiness, hard to read, or has bothersome hyper links you didn’t even visit. That is for MySpace is known to be flourishing so much, so have the layout spinning sites. In realism, MySpace layout sites have been …

It wasn’t too long ago that social networks didn’t exist. You actually had to speak to one another, in person. The quickest, cheapest (and well, best) way of keeping in touch with people who had moved away was via the old and trusted method of email. No longer is this the case. People don’t want to speak to one person anymore; they want the whole world to know that they’re staying in and having Spaghetti Bolognese for dinner tonight.
Tonight’s dinner aside, this is something which needs to be paid …