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            The Social
               
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        <description>CNET News&#039; Caroline McCarthy is a downtown Manhattanite who believes that, despite popular opinion, the Web can actually help your social life. She&#039;s happily addicted to fun social-media tools from Twitter to Yelp to Facebook.</description>
        
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        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:01:00 PST</pubDate>
        





    
        
    
        
    

    
        
    
        
    


        
            
                
                
            
        
            
        
    




    

    


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                <title>Citysearch pulls a total overhaul</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div image-custom float-left" style="width: 400px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081118/citysearch_400x167.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="167" /><p class="image-caption">Citysearch is still ahead, butupstart rival Yelp is catching up. Good thing Citysearch has brought in some much-needed new social features.</p><span class="image-credit">(Credit: Compete.com)</span></div><p><a href="http://www.citysearch.com">Citysearch</a>, the online business directory owned by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, has gotten a full makeover. It's available now at <a href="http://beta.citysearch.com">beta.citysearch.com</a>--there'...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:01:00 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>Facebook, Google, others sponsor youth activism summit</title>
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<p>Facebook, Google, and the Google-owned YouTube are among the sponsors for the <a href="http://info.howcast.com/youthmovements/summit">Alliance of Youth Movements Summit</a>, an event taking place at New York's Columbia Law School from December 3-5.</p>

<p>Along with other collaborators--which include the U.S. Department of State, MTV, Access 360 Media, and ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:19:00 PST</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Caroline McCarthy</dc:creator>
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                <title>New game brings iPhone into Wiimote territory</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div image-medium float-left" style="width: 129px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081117/sgn.png" alt="" width="129" height="69" /></div><p>The <a href="http://www.socialgn.com">Social Gaming Network</a>, a company best known for its Facebook Platform apps, has launched a new iPhone app that uses the handset as...a gaming controller.</p>

<p>Called "iFun," the app is a takeoff on the Social Gaming Network's existing sports apps: iGolf, iBowl, iBaseball, and the like. But ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:00:00 PST</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Caroline McCarthy</dc:creator>
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                <title>App verification comes to Facebook&#039;s platform</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<p>Facebook has launched another way for members to <a title="For developers, the Facebook hype machine is slowing down -- Wednesday, May 14, 2008" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9943571-36.html" >sift through the noise</a> when it comes to the thousands of developer-created applications on its platform: a "<a href="http://developers.facebook.com/verification.php">verified app</a>" badge.</p>

<p>It's sort of like the "verified merchant" status that PayPal awards: it's designed to signify that the application has met ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:00 PST</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Caroline McCarthy</dc:creator>
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                <title>Thrillist&#039;s recession special: Free stuff!</title>
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<p>Trendy men's newsletter <a href="http://www.thrillist.com">Thrillist</a> has already shown its penchant for giving the middle finger to all things recession-related, whether it be <a title="What happens in Vegas winds up on the Web -- Monday, Jun 16, 2008" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9969385-36.html" >chartering party planes</a> or throwing <a title="Internet Week New York's party scene off to a testosterone-fueled start -- Thursday, Jun 5, 2008" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9960734-36.html" >'90s-dot-com bubble-theme</a> parties (granted, both of those stunts preceded the Wall Street meltdown by a few months). But the New York-based start-up may ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:32:00 PST</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Caroline McCarthy</dc:creator>
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                <title>Is it time for a digital reality check?</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<p>NEW YORK--Solar panels clusters in New Mexico, wind farms dotting the Great Plains? That's all very nice. But that railroad tunnel in Baltimore is important, too.</p>

<p>On a gray and rainy Thursday, I went to Time Inc.'s midtown Manhattan headquarters for what was supposed to be a panel ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:22:00 PST</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Caroline McCarthy</dc:creator>
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                <title>End of a snarky era: Gawker shuts down Valleywag</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div image-medium float-left" style="width: 270px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081112/gawker_270x179.gif" alt="" width="270" height="179" /></div><p>On the same day that he published <a href="http://nickdenton.org/5083616/a-2009-internet-media-plan">a detailed missive</a> about his dire predictions for the online ad market, Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton made public his decision to shut down <a href="http://valleywag.com">Valleywag</a>, the blog network's Silicon Valley gossip title. Valleywag was launched early in 2006.</p>

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                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:05:00 PST</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Caroline McCarthy</dc:creator>
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                <title>MySpace launches searchable video widget</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div image-medium float-right" style="width: 270px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081112/primetime_270x370.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="370" /><p class="image-caption">The MySpace Primetime video app.</p><span class="image-credit">(Credit: MySpace)</span></div><p>Now you can put a TV on your MySpace profile--sort of.</p>

<p>The News Corp.-owned social network has built a new widget for its <a title="MySpace to developers: Come play in our sandbox! -- Monday, Feb 4, 2008" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9864571-36.html" >developer platform</a> called "<a href="http://www.myspace.com/primetimeapp">Primetime</a>," a video player that syndicates much of the professionally created content available on its <a title="TMZ clips to be featured on MySpaceTV -- Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9880693-7.html" >MySpaceTV media hub</a>. ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:32:00 PST</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Caroline McCarthy</dc:creator>
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                <title>Layoffs hit Al Gore&#039;s Current Media</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div image-medium float-right" style="width: 270px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081111/tearinmybeer_270x377.jpg" alt="layoffs" width="270" height="377" /><p class="image-caption">Producer/Editor Shaun Cvar and about a dozen other laid off CurrentTV employees gathered at a watering hole next door to Current&#39;s offices for drinks after being laid off.</p><span class="image-credit">(Credit: James Martin/CNET Networks)</span></div>

<p>There have been layoffs at Current Media, the cable network co-founded by former U....</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:53:00 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>Facebook invites members to vote in developer competition</title>
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<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a> members can now vote on the <a title="Facebook announces 25 developer grant finalists -- Wednesday, Oct 15, 2008" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10066952-36.html" >second round of finalists</a> for its FBFund seed funding competition, which will give out a total of $225,000 to five grand prize winners. The 25 companies currently in the running have already pocketed $25,000 apiece for the applications they have proposed ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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