Social networking site that started boom folds as Facebook continues to rake in billions - Daily Record
THE website Friendster - which paved the way for Facebook - has shut down eight years after its founder rejected a deal that would have made him a billionaire. The social network will delete a decade's worth of members' personal data and photographs next

Social networking - San Francisco Gate
Last year, Pepsi passed up Super Bowl commercials in favor of a social media campaign. Now the beverage behemoth is taking social networking to an unlikely place - a digital-age "social vending" machine system. PepsiCo At a trade show in Chicago this week

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Social networking 'success' doesn't extend to offline relationships - Chicago Tribune
Social networking has been described as the contemporary way that people interact. While that may be true, an individual's social success in the virtual world doesn't appear to carry over into the real world, according to a new study. Previous studies on

Patent app shows what a single hub for Google social networking might look like - ANDROID COMMUNITY.COM
I think most of us can agree that Google will at some point end up with its own social network and that the network will be heavily tied into anything running the Android OS. With the popularity of Android, a highly integrated social network could be very

Red Cross taps into social networking for blood donations - msnbc.com
WICHITA, Kansas — If you follow social media by any means, you've probably heard of Tweet-up -- a place where people meet in person to hangout. Now the Red Cross is putting a new twist on it, calling it a "bleed-up." It's the second time it's being held