AOL on Monday said it has completed the acquisition of Bebo, an online social network focused on the youth market and particularly strong in the United Kingdom.

Bebo will become the centerpiece of AOL's newly created People Networks business unit. Bebo chief executive Joanna Shields will serve as president of the new unit and report to Ron Grant, AOL's president and chief operating officer. continue reading

Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that the annual Social Networking Conference is scheduled for January 22-23, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

The Miami Social Networking Conference has become the leading business conference for the social networking and social media industry. The convention and expo discusses both business and enterprise social networking. Since its formation, it continues to discuss working business models and new technologies for the space.
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Did you participate in the Twit-Out yesterday? Do you even know what that is? To get you up to speed, a handful of Twitter users, fed up with the regular outages of their favorite service, decided to band together to show Twitter some tough love by boycotting the service for a day. (Unfortunately, despite having fewer users on the service, Twitter still went down). However, in light of recent world events, it's a shame that the cause the tech community has chosen to rally around is that of Twitter's instability. Aren't there more important things going on right now?

FundingPost, an entrepreneur and investor network reaching more than 200,000 executives and 6,000 venture capital and angel investors across the nation, has announced the winners of its 2008 Pitching Across America(TM).  FundingPost established the competition in 2004. In the past three years more than 250 Venture Capital Funds and Angel Investors have participated as judges, voting on over 1000 business summaries from emerging companies nationwide. continue reading

Many businesses these days are venturing into the Wild West of social media, trying their hand at things like blogging and Twitter and creating profiles on social-networking sites. But along the way they’re making lots of mistakes.

These mistakes shouldn’t be taken lightly. How your business is perceived in the Web 2.0 world will affect your reputation and your ability to connect with customers, associates and potential customers. (Who wants to hire a company that can’t even manage an engaging, thought-provoking blog?)
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This is a novel demonstration of robotics and adaptable automation.

The focus of this conference is to accelerate the implementation of sustainable manufacturing by facilitating the dissemination of information and providing a means for organizations to compare their products and processes

http://www.oecd.org/document/48/0,3343,en_2649_33703_40953456_1_1_1_1,00.html

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Getting people to use your brand new social networking community can be a challenge. You can have the greatest social networking site on the planet, but if nobody is using it, what is the point? Myspace wasn't built in a day. There are several things you can do to get the ball rolling.

Post Regularly

Nobody wants to use a site or community that doesn't look like it is buzzing, and the best way to make a site buzz is to have great, fresh content on a daily basis. Until the community gets legs, you should be posting like crazy. Content is king!
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These days many Americans dream of driving a car that runs on anything besides gasoline. That’s why the newest announcement from American Honda Motor Co., Inc. is raising a lot of interest.