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With blog platforms Movable Type and WordPress adding social-networking features to their software, it was only a matter of time before Google’s Blogger did the same.

A post on the official Blogger blog earlier this week announced that users would soon be able to …

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My Yahoo Mash profile, soon to get euthanized.

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File this one under the “ouch” category. Yahoo is shutting down its social-networking experiment, Yahoo Mash, after only a year in business.

An e-mail to Mash members from Yahoo community manager Matt Warburton read, “Thank you for trying out our …

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If an anonymous source is correct, the confirmed screenplay-in-the-works about Facebook’s origins by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is tied to a forthcoming book about the social network by Bringing Down The House author Ben Mezrich.

Independent Harvard alumni publication 02138 reported on Friday that the film rights to …

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Let’s hope Yahoo has finally learned that the maxim “If you build it, they will come” simply does not apply to a social network.

The Silicon Valley mainstay and onetime Microsoft shopping-spree target is quietly shutting down Yahoo Mash, its latest foray into creating a general-interest social network like …

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BuzzCity, a mobile networking and advertising start-up based in Singapore, announced Thursday a $10 million investment by South African media company Naspers.

BuzzCity has developed a mobile social-networking product called MyGamma, but it’s not hoping to take on Facebook. MyGamma is geared toward “unwired” customers–those who have a mobile …

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If a recently created group on Facebook is to be believed, entertainment stalwart Aaron Sorkin–creator of The West Wing and A Few Good Men–is working on penning a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about the origins of Facebook. Someone claiming to be Sorkin’s researcher …

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The guys who created Lonelygirl15–the scripted Web series that fooled many viewers into thinking it was the real video diary of a cute 16-year-old girl–are back with a new project.

The re-branded “LG15″ production company Eqal, helmed by Greg Goodfried and Miles Beckett, unveiled LG15: The Resistance, a spin-off …

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After social news site Reddit went open-source in June, this was a logical next step: letting members take the code and import it to their own sites, creating social-news hubs of their own. That’s the company’s latest announcement, per a blog post on Tuesday.

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There’s no more Scrabulous on Facebook. For real. Unless you’re in India.

According to the Associated Press, the social network has officially disabled access to the popular online game, which closely resembles classic board game Scrabble, after a complaint from Mattel, the company that publishes it outside the …

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The biggest social networks, like Facebook and MySpace, have operated mobile sites since long before anyone had seen an iPhone. Medium-sized ones are still warming up to it: Hi5, a San Francisco-based company that counts its biggest following in Latin America, formally launched Hi5 Mobile on Tuesday.

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Imagine seeing an ad on Facebook for a retailer like American Apparel or Target, and clicking a button to pass a 15-percent-off discount code to someone on your friends list. For advertisers looking to tap into the power of social networks, it sounds tantalizing.

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Let’s say Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sent every one of those “here’s my V.P.” text messages from his own cell phone. And let’s say his mean, nasty carrier charged him ten cents for each one. According to Nielsen’s numbers, his bill would’ve been $…

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There’s no reason to panic at Google over the rumor that the perks-happy tech giant would be cutting back on free food for employees, we hear.

A source close to the company told CNET News that the rumors are really just spin over a small management decision. Google isn’…

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Blame the mounting economic pressures, or too many chubby engineers: Google has decided to stop offering free dinner, afternoon snacks, and its “tea trolley” to employees, according to an unconfirmed rumor floated on Valleywag.

A Google representative did not immediately return a request for comment, so this one is still …

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On Sunday, I had an e-mail alert about someone writing on my Facebook wall–a college acquaintance with whom I hadn’t spoken in quite some time. As it turns out, I was a victim of “wall spam,” a recent phenomenon on Facebook in which automated spam posts show up on …

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