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An awesome rumor has been kicked off by The Times: News Corp is discussing a swap of 25% of Yahoo for MySpace. Yup: they think that MySpace is worth a quarter of Yahoo’s $37 billion value. 170 million+ users (some of them real) in exchange for a large chunk of one of the [...]

Despite the debut of MySpaceIM back in September 2006, the company will formally launch the service on Wednesday. Not many services can “launch” with 17 million users worldwide, a number that makes MySpace IM one of the largest IM clients already (AIM, by comparison, has 63 million users). Features include integration with MySpace [...]

If you want to make your life easier and more socially productive, then these 23 social networking toolbars and plug-ins for the Firefox web browser will speed up your interaction with the leading social networks. No need to visit the sites direct; just post information via your browser - bookmarks, blog posts and more. Delicious: [...]

An aspiring blogger can be overwhelmed with the vast amount of resources, tools, and advice for bloggers available on the net. While in no way definitive - there’s simply too much going on in this space to cover it all - we did our best to bring you a comprehensive list of blogging resources, which [...]

Date: Unknown, the reality web series that features the first dates of people who meet online through social networks, has signed a revenue sharing deal with YouTube. The show’s unassuming hook-up with YouTube is as notable as the show’s motif. As the story goes, creator Brandon Fletcher flew to California and walked into YouTube’s offices [...]

A major coup for fast-growing “funny picture” generator Zingfu: they’ve just hooked up with Bebo to offer Zingfu within Bebo Widgets. As mentioned previously, Bebo Widgets is a huge opportunity for those select few widget makers that get access: their tools are put in front of millions of social networkers, with very little competition. [...]

For those that feel too old for MySpace or Facebook comes VOIS.com (pronounced “voice”), which bills itself as “a social networking community for users age 30 to 50” in a press release issued yesterday. However, after touring around VOIS.com, there do not appear to be many unique features designed for the middle-aged set. [...]

DailyStrength, a social networking site which connects people with various health problems, has closed its first round of financing, estimated between $5-7 million. They plan to use the money to extend their staff, find more partners and develop more features - personalized news and widgets are supposedly on the way. The site claims to have [...]

Snap, which created the annoying/useful website add-on Snap Shots, a tool that previews websites when you hover over a link, has added two more elements to the service: MySpace profile previews, and RSS previews. ProfileShot grabs all the important info from a MySpace page and displays it when you hover over a MySpace link: [...]

The UK leads the world in the amount of users streaming videos according to a new study released today by comScore. The report shows that 80% of Internet users in the UK stream video, and that the average Briton initiated 80 streams in the month of April. This compares to 76% of US Internet [...]