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Stories by Heather Havenstein

Article | 18/12/2007 Google dips its toe into user-generated profiles

Google Inc. over the weekend quietly announced Google Profiles, which provide a way for users of various Google products like Google Maps and Google R...

Article | 17/12/2007 Google launches its own Wikipedia - with a twist

Google last week announced plans to launch a tool it said will allow users to contribute articles for a new online encyclopedia of sorts. Unlike Wikip...

Article | 17/12/2007 Facebook users look to get disabled accounts reactivated

Disgruntled Facebook users whose accounts have been deactivated without warning or explanation have turned to a new Web site aimed at providing an out...

Article | 14/12/2007 Facebook targets Google with licensing program

In a direct shot across the bow of Google and its OpenSocial project, Facebook Thursday announced plans to allow other social networks to license its ...

Article | 10/12/2007 Corporations form group to create blogging best practices

Executives from 12 large companies, including The Coca-Cola Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Kaiser Permanente, General Motors and Dell, have jointly formed a ...

Article | 20/11/2007 Meet the Virtual Generation

Beyond Generations X and Y, the marketers gear up for the mixed demographic Generation V.

Article | 16/11/2007 Reality programming meets venture capital world

It has been billed by some as American Idol meets Silicon Valley -- a new contest that will award three would-be entrepreneurs venture capital and oth...

Article | 15/11/2007 Jango launches new custom Internet radio service

Jango this week announced the public release of its online radio service that lets users create and share personalized radio stations.

Article | 15/11/2007 MySpace, Facebook ad plans violate privacy, groups tell FTC

Two consumer advocacy groups have asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether new advertising initiatives announced last week by so...

Article | 15/11/2007 Forget Generations X and Y: Here comes Generation V

Much has been made of the stereotypical characteristics of the generations that followed the Baby Boomer era. The same can be said of the latest gener...

Article | 10/11/2007 New Facebook ad system raises privacy concerns

Just days after Facebook unveiled plans for a new advertising network that relies on user-provided details about themselves for marketers to target th...

Article | 8/11/2007 Facebook unveils ad platform -- and new corporate pages

Rounding out a week that already has seen MySpace.com announce a new advertising network, Facebook this week announced plans for its own new advertisi...

Article | 8/11/2007 Study: Eclipse users find the tools make or save money

While Eclipse tools may have first appeared in some companies after grass-roots efforts by individual developers working on isolated projects, the ope...

Article | 6/11/2007 Kick-start your job search with new Yahoo social network

Yahoo launched a new professional social network called Y! Kickstart Sunday aimed at helping college students take the social networking skills they p...

Article | 3/11/2007 New apps already coming for Google's new OpenSocial

A day after MySpace and Google sent shockwaves through the Web 2.0 world - and a shot across the bow of current social networking darling Facebook - t...