Facebook asks users to translate for free
Coolness aside, and many users are embracing the idea, other social networks aren’t “crowdsourcing” translation. The move is generating mounting criticism online, where some users question whether amateurs can produce good translations. Critics …
Social networks bust out the music widgets
One of the biggest new-media sensations to emerge from last year were music-related widgets mini-applications that allowed members of social networking services like MySpace or Facebook to customize their profiles with such music features as …
NYT: McCain, Iraq and ‘al-Qaida’
… than most people could imagine, with multiple, independent moving parts, and when you have that universe of networks, you can … Lapidus, a co-author of Islam, Politics and Social Movements and a professor of history at the Center for Middle …
The Real Threat to Google
Consumer use of mobile Internet in the U.S. has longed trailed Asia and Europe, where standardized cell networks made it … If online social media such as Twitter, Facebook, or Digg can’t figure out ways to entice money from advertisers, they’ll …
Cell crackdown sparks worldwide debate
Instead, they’ll use an onboard base station to link up to a satellite and then to ground networks. But silencing chatterboxes … Josef Kalina, a senior official with Austria’s governing Social Democratic Party, dismissed the Graz ring tone ban as “a …
last night’s “Verdict” with Dan Abrams
Former Republican presidential candidate and pastor, Mike Huckabee; social commentator Nancy Giles; and, MSNBC senior … Look, stand up to them? Please. He can get plenty of tough questions on other networks. It had nonstop coverage of Rev.
Clinton’s dream team, from tacos to BBQ
… media markets is really kind of old-fashioned thinking at this point, he argues. Ironically, we ve moved back to an age when just talking to people at rallies and having them talk to their friends and their relatives and their social networks …
MySpaceTV lands TV distribution deal
… News Corp.’s MySpace distribute Web shows on television and DVDs outside the United States, as the world’s largest social … Partnering with ShineReveille empowers us to export MySpaceTV content to local TV networks globally something we’ve never …
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