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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.

That’s the thinking behind “Engagement Ads,” …

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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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The knife-wielding cast of 'KateModern.'

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Bebo doesn’t just want to be that social network that AOL bought–it also wants to be a hub for entertainment.

The site, now part of the Time Warner unit’s “People Networks” division, has appointed the London-based Kelly Brett …

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The knife-wielding cast of 'KateModern.'

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Bebo doesn’t just want to be that social network that AOL bought–it also wants to be a hub for entertainment.

The site, now part of the Time Warner unit’s “People Networks” division, has appointed the London-based Kelly Brett …

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Citing economic troubles, Ziff Davis Media has canceled this year’s DigitalLife Expo, a trade show held each fall at New York’s Jacob Javits Convention Center.

“The poor economic conditions have created a very different and difficult dynamic for us this year, and we weren’t confident that we …

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Photobucket, the massive photo-sharing site that was acquired by News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media last year, has partnered with Scrapblog, a start-up that lets members create online scrapbooks.

Through the partnership, whose financial terms were not disclosed, Scrapblog’s drag-and-drop application will be available within Photobucket so that users …

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Photobucket, the massive photo-sharing site that was acquired by News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media last year, has partnered with Scrapblog, a start-up that lets members create online scrapbooks.

Through the partnership, whose financial terms were not disclosed, Scrapblog’s drag-and-drop application will be available within Photobucket so that users …

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