Social Networks

News Corp. and Microsoft: A Flawed Deal?
BusinessWeek | 1 hour 14 minutes ago
Confining content from The Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. publications to Microsoft's Bing will do more to hurt Rupert Murdoch than Google

Brand Sweepstakes Get Twitterized
Brandweek | 9 hours 33 minutes ago
The run-of-the-mill holiday sweepstakes is getting a social twist with the addition of sharing features brands hope will extend their reach.

LinkedIn Opens Up To Developers
Reuters | 11 hours ago
LinkedIn wants a bigger developer community to build up around its social network.

Salesforce.com Pumps Up Volume of Workplace Chatter
E-Commerce Times | 11 hours 24 minutes ago
Salesforce.com has developed a collaboration platform that puts social networking to work. Salesforce Chatter facilitates employee collaboration on projects through Facebook-like profiles, status updates, feeds and groups. The question remains whether employees will be as open to social networking in the workplace as they are in their personal lives.

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GameDaily BIZ | 12 hours 4 minutes ago
And it could signal the next trend in social gaming, with companies like Zynga initially using the networks to attract users—FarmVille garnered 65 million users overall from Facebook, with 26 million playing daily—and then launching standalone sites with more functionality, and potentially less restrictions on content and ads.

Microsoft, News Corp. In Early Talks On Web Deal
Wall Street Journal, The | 12 hours 44 minutes ago
News Corp. has held discussions with Microsoft Corp. about a partnership that could result in News Corp. removing its newspaper content from Google Inc.'s search engine while continuing to feature it on Microsoft's online properties, according to people familiar with the matter.

Facebook launches legal action against uSocial
Network World | 13 hours 33 minutes ago
Facebook has launched legal action against uSocial - an Australian marketing firm that sells 'fans' and 'friends' on the social network.

Five ethical deficits that need to be addressed
Globe and Mail (Toronto), The | 15 hours 50 minutes ago
Deficit of reflective practice As the pace of work speeds up, a significant imbalance has arisen between reflection and action in many organizations

Roku 'Store' Opens With 10 Channels
Cable Digital News | 17 hours 1 minute ago
Roku Inc. is booting up a new "Channel Store" with 10 free channels, but the firm, which already distributes programming from Netflix Inc. , Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), and Major League Baseball, lacks fare from a major broadcast or cable programmer in the new offering. (See Roku 'Channel Store' Is Open.)

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Light Reading | 17 hours 43 minutes ago
Roku Inc. is booting up a new "Channel Store" with 10 free channels, but the firm, which already distributes programming from Netflix Inc. , Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), and Major League Baseball, lacks fare from a major broadcast or cable programmer in the new offering.

Understanding the Available Social Media Recruiting Strategies ?? Leveraging Your Employees Time (Part 2 of 2)
ERE.net | 20 hours 14 minutes ago
Last week I introduced this series by stating that a majority of social recruiting initiatives currently in progress in organizations around the world would fail primarily because they relied solely on the limited resources of the recruiting function to establish visibility online, engage an audience, and service that audience throughout a multi-stage conversion cycle.

Turkey, stuffing and hand sanitizer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 21 hours 18 minutes ago
Going over the river and through the woods to Grandmother?s house for the holidays is a cherished tradition in many families. This year, though, that trip is unlikely to be taken for granted, if taken at all.