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Social Media Storm Helps Grant Dying Boy's Wish NY1 08/05/2010 | |
 A 10-year-old Canadian boy fighting a life-threatening illness will get to fulfill one of his final wishes of racing through Central Park. But the special trip almost didn't happen, after the airline damaged his wheelchair. |  Researchers from the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Sciences and Harvard Medical School have developed an innovative way of tracking the nation's mood using tweets. |
Google Develops a Facebook RivalAMIR EFRATI The Wall Street Journal 07/28/2010 | Facebook to Share Your Info for Money My FOX DC 05/03/2010 |
 Google Inc. is in talks with several makers of popular online games as it seeks to develop a broader social-networking service that could compete with Facebook Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. |  Facebook is now sharing your personal profile information with third parties. For now, it's just a few web sites, like the music site Pandora, and the consumer review site, Yelp. Facebook is automatically sharing that information, without your consent. If you don't want to share, you have to opt out. |
Twitter to launch own link shortener service 04/16/2010 | |
 Twitter has confirmed that it is planning to launch its own link shortener and that it could discontinue the use of popular services such as bit.ly and tinyurl. |  Facebook has been linked to an increase in the sexually-transmitted disease (STD) syphilis, according to British health experts. It is believed it has given people a new way to meet multiple partners for casual sex. |
Google Poaches Social Search Service AardvarkRyan Singel Wired News 02/12/2010 | With Buzz, Google Plunges Into Social NetworkingMIGUEL HELFT and BRAD STONE The New York Times 02/12/2010 |
 The coolest search engine you’ve never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million. Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your social network, confirmed it signed a deal with Google. TechCrunch, which first reported the news, put the figure at $50 million, but Wired.com could not confirm the purchase price. |  SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Facebook are on a collision course in the increasingly competitive market for social networking services. |
Facebook 'memorialises' profiles BBC News 10/27/2009 | Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble' BBC News 08/18/2009 |
 Facebook has announced that it will be giving friends and family the option to "memorialise" the profiles of members who have died. |  A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble." |
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