"[A] next big thing—web-mail then, social networking now—can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from their favourite web portal. The non sequitur is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own rig

"The Eliot Spitzer sex scandal has created an unintended victim — a preacher’s daughter with the misfortune of sharing the same name as the notorious prostitute who brought down the New York governor."

It seemed [Ashley Alexandra Dupre] was trying to stay one step ahead of journalists, attempting to limit what information they could access [on her MySpace page].

"Much of the background information on [22-year old Ashley Alexandra Dupre, otherwise known as Kristen.
], as well as photos, have come from social networking sites, such as MySpace."

"The SlingShot Labs venture is designed to spawn Internet startups for News Corp. and also likely to help MySpace compete with Facebook"

"The MoD warns that "more discipline" and "greater enforcement" of military conduct rules is necessary to tackle "the publishing of unauthorised content on unofficial channels . . ." [like YouTube and social networking sites]."

"The most recent–and seemingly unlikely–election coverage team is CBS News and Digg, … Under the partnership, political stories from Digg will appear in a box on the politics section of CBSNews.com."

"35 percent of all online teen girls blog, while only 20 percent of online teen boys do so … The Internet for them is much less about consuming content than it is about interpersonal communications. … BlufftonToday.com, is dominated by females."

"Hachette Filipacchi has launched a new social networking and social bookmarking website for its teen title Sugar, and plans to introduce widgets to integrate the site with Bebo and MySpace."

"although national news outlets from Fox News to The New York Times have since revealed the identity of Lori Drew who apparently posed as a teen boy online and harassed Meier with insults until her death, the St. Charles Journals of St. Peters, Mo., remai

Tim O’Reilly promotes mathematical literacy with a discussion of trends in major websites’ traffic growth.

US journalists debate the ethics of the decision made by the St Charles Journal not to name the adults whose fake MySpace profile was used to bully teenager Megan Meier, who later commited suicide.

A Myspace cyberbullying case leads to a suicide - and then to a journalism ethics debate involving both bloggers and professional journalists.

"Will Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites transform advertising?"