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US joins Virtual Global Taskforce
With the participation of US Customs, the US is now becoming a full member of an
international police unit it helped design. Operating in London but now to be monitored … 
Youth pastors, rabbis on MySpace
MySpace says 14% of its users are under 18, and that's likely why youth-oriented religious
leaders are there. Some are there just to monitor young people's activity, some to keep …
ReputationDefender.com
"You can't take it back" was the basic message when I wrote about "Protecting teen
reputations [and future prospects] on Web 2.0" last spring - because once you've uploaded
text …
Your child an 'influential'?
"Social Networking: A Boost for Brand Buzz" in E-Commerce Times offers some insights into
how marketers are viewing online kids. They are really interested in reaching
"influentials," who are generally …
COPA in court again
The Web is actually not teeming with X-rated content, according to research by a
University of California-Berkeley statistics professor. "A confidential analysis of
Internet search queries and a random sample …
Game consoles' latest epic battle
Brace yourselves, holiday shoppers, the next wave of game console wars hits the US this
weekend. Nintendo's new Wii console goes on sale here Sunday. Microsoft's Xbox 360 gained
its …
Very mobile social networking
You might call it real-time, real-life social networking. Today (11/14) Silicon Valley
start-up loopt launched a new mobile social-networking service with Boost Mobile, "one of
the nation's biggest youth-oriented wireless …
Talking to friends on Orkut - literally!
… Orkut users can now "talk on the phone" with their friends. Orkut added Google
Talk to its features and, at about the same time, opened itself up to everyone (Orkut …
ID theft often begins at home
… but "half of those who do say the thief was a family member, a friend, a neighbor
or an in-home employee," the New York Times reports, citing a Federal Trade …