Friendstar is one of the early social networking sites which was overshadowed in recent times by mySpace and facebook.  The company will announce Tuesday a new chief executive, Richard Kimber, the regional managing director of South Asia for Google and $20 million of new funding. Also, they are going to have a fresh look on Asia.

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One of the most interesting opportunities of social networking is Lifestreaming. When people get along with friends online they talk about music, review movies, share travel stories, exchange photos, discuss videogames and chat about life. Lifestreaming offers the ability to store and broadcast this information exchange.

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Facebook, the social networking site,  is dramatically changing its look to reduce the mess and give users more control over how they interact with their friends and share personal information.

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Facebook is suing leading German social network StudiVZ for copyright infringement. StudiVZ claims to have 10 million active members, and is the largest social network in the German speaking world, covering Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. The network is actually split across three different sites, each one a seperate social network aimed at different parts of the market. Studivz.net is the classic site for college-aged students, Schuelervz.net is for high school students and Meinvz.net is for older adults (this three-networks was very confusing for me to decipher in German when I attempted to signup).

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Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704), a global leader in Internet content security, reported today an increase in the number of employees who admit to visiting social networking sites on the Internet while connected to the corporate network, according to the results of a Trend Micro study that explores corporate computer users’ perceptions of and experiences with security threats.

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Sixrevisions.com listed 12 websites that are very useful for Flash development skills.

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Here is a list of scenarios and technologies that will shape the Internet’s future. Some are already available and a few we’d like to look forward to in the near future:

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The current explosion of social networking will soon result in most websites having a social networking component.  As a result the big step in social networking isn’t going to be who creates the next MySpace, Facebook, or YouTube, but who creates a website or software to consolidate all the data that all these networks produce.

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The world’s top cellphone maker, Nokia, has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet services. Plazes provides location-aware services that people can use to plan, record and share their social activities. Nokia did not disclose the value of the deal.

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The popular news aggregator Reddit has gone open source. The Reddit source code is available now and is written largely in Python. The Reddit development site is available at http://code.reddit.com. Here you can download the code, participate in the forum, and help maintain the documentation wiki.

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