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Last month’s news that RockYou had raised $1M from DCM in “interim funding” seemed a bit odd in light of some of the other huge financings we’ve seen of late in the widget and social networking application space. Today, the picture becomes a whole lot clearer, as we’ve learned that RockYou has in fact […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “RockYou Raises $35 Million to Keep Up in Widget Arms Race”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/06/09/rockyou-widgets-funding/” });
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A new study from Harris Interactive confirms through numbers what many of us have been noticing anecdotally: social networking spam is on the rise, and most users are concerned about it.
In the study, which was commissioned by Cloudmark (an anti-spam software company), 66 percent of the 972 social networking users polled indicated that […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Why Social Network Spam Matters”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/06/09/social-network-spam/” });
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There’s an inherent byproduct to mass consumerism coupled with traceable technology, and that’s data collection. GPS and WiFi have made such data collection infinitely easier, and other mandates by the government, including safety initiative E-911, have aided in this process. The result is a fine line between creepy Big Brother-induced paranoia and research […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Sense Networks Collects Mobile GPS Data, So You Can Recommend Trendy Clubs”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/06/09/sense-network/” });
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