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Social Networking Creates Social “Awareness”

The rise of online social networking sites in the 21st century has opened up a totally new avenue in the AIDS awareness campaign. A new study has indicated that the sites can lend a hand in controllin…

How Churches Use the Social Network

Some tech-savvy pastors are using nontraditional methods to attract new members to their very traditional establishments. A growing number of religious leaders in the US are turning to social network …

Chinese Social Networking Site RenRen Expects High Investor Demand

China's largest social networking website, RenRen, hopes to raise over $743 million as it files for an IPO in the US this Friday. It will become the first social networking site to be listed on an…

Osama Bin Laden’s Death Goes Viral on All Social Networking Sites

Users on prominent social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter started commenting and discussing Osama bin Laden's death even before the news was confirmed by President Obama. Social network…

One-Stop Social Network Search

For power users who are having trouble tracking their information across social networks, the Web, and the cloud, there is a new application called Greplin that may be able help organize it all. It ca…

Doctors Warn About Social Networking Depression

It has been reported that 22% of teenagers log onto social networking site Facebook more than 10 times a day. Doctors warn that an obsession with social networking sites among teenagers is linked to d…

Disney Acquires Children’s Social Network Togetherville

In a bid to strengthen its presence in online gaming, Walt Disney Co. has acquired Togetherville, which is a social network for elementary school-age kids.

Togetherville is aimed at recreating the…

Uberscript for XChat IRC client

Are you addicted to social networking online?

There are a variety of social networking sites, but there are also social networking chat clients too.

The X Chat IRC client is a comprehensive chat…