Social Web sites face transparency questions

Yelp.com prides itself on being a site where people can write reviews about pretty much anything and connect with similarly critical peers. Yet as the site grows, some of the businesses scrutinized on Yelp are turning the tables and griping about the company itself.

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…at least according to an infographic put together by Information is Beautiful. The stats, compiled from data from Google Ad Planner, show that equal numbers of men and women use sites like LinkedIn, DeviantArt and YouTube.

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we bring you the very best fake Facebook (Facebook) pages. Click through to the sites to see the pages in full size and quality.

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Technology has transformed how the public communicates with itself. Will it transform how the government communicates with us?

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Beneath the canopy of the social web lies 3 magnificent music sites

If savvy web trends were a forest, lurking somewhere in the shadows of the thriving microblogging grove (Twitter, Friendfeed) would be an unassuming but gorgeous patch of blossoming music sites.

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Shameless horn-tootin': OnEarth post about finding unexpected similarities between my parents' 1970s "back-to-the-land" environmentalism and today's less ideologically driven green movement. Kind of pleased with how it turned out.

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The publishing industry solicits reviews from Amazon's top reviewers. Meanwhile, Amazon itself claims that the review system is a way to step outside publishing spin and hear directly from other readers.

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Beyond Web 2.0 is still more Web 2.0(for now). The full impact of Web 2.0 will be felt only in 2008 and beyond. The Semantic web is not the future of Web20.

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The service can be described as a video based Twitter, although it is also much more than that.

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Perhaps the foremost sage of the Web 2.0 concept, Tim O'Reilly refutes today's attempts at defining Web 3.0, saying that the name is unlikely and the next generation of the web will be more than just new front end technology.

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med3q.com's VISIONS "hub" is where the more than 12,000 expo attendees can join and continue to interact long after the event closes.

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Over the last 24 hours all hell broke loose on the social news site Digg.

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Barack Obama appears to be the most popular presidential candidate, at least according to the social web crowd. YouTube's featured "YouChoose" channel shows overwhelming page views for Obama. Mashable's writeup also discusses which candidate Digg users favor.

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Jaron Lanier, who popularised the virtual reality concept in the early 1980s, says that in rush to forge a new age of collectivism, we risk losing individual identities and dumbing down our understanding of the world.

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Life, death and mourning on the social web: What should Newsvine do?

If you've really lived on the Internet — in other words, if a good deal of your formative social interactions have been experienced online — then one day you will inevitably "die" on the Internet.

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What is 'Mobile 2.0' ? What does it mean to carriers/operators and you?

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On the Internet democracy has become the engine of commercial success: While The New York Times surrendered to social news and the Telco bill perished, YouTube's traffic passed Microsoft's corporate website.

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www.lost.eu/eb99 the GAME

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TechCrunch in NYC - Party Overview

TechCrunch recently hosted a party at BED in New York City .  Great fun.  Not quite the venue I would have chosen for this sort of an event, but cool people, some interesting companies, and just a great overall experience. Here are some of the companies I encountered …

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Kevin Rose questions the propriety of Jason Calacanis putting a price tag on the active contributors at Web 2.0 Social Web properties such as Digg and Netscape (See "Digg vs. Netscape, Kevin vs. Jason, Web 2.0 vs. commercial Internet")

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From the page: -- For Mark Cuban, "The Internet is Boring. Its old news." For America's Fortune 500 mega-corporations, however, today's Social Web is the "coolest" thing around. --

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Fred Stutzman, co-founder of claimID, talks about recent developments within the realm of online identity management.

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An article on the social and personal implications of myspace.

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