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POPSVanishing Barns "Competition for land — to rent or buy — has grown cutthroat and overwhelming, a matter of networking and schmoozing (at church, at the local coffee shop, while selling seed) worthy of the corporate boardroom. (Some here tell of people who call the widows of farmers who have died days or hours earlier, hoping to secure land.)"
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POPSPopularity has its toll :) I find the most interesting question as: "the incident sparked a debate about who owns the content a user creates on a social network?" What are codes of behaviour one should use? the borders become thinner between different (up till now at least) contexts, work, friends, spare time, game, business etc...
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POPSWebsite for Nerds Well they may be nerds, but I am nosey and a clipper. This site has a lot of info, with a lot of traffic. The comments alone are for each article reaches in the 100's...so somebody must know something... :)
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POPSTourism Marketing for 2009 Fresh, effective Tourism Marketing Strategies with Results you can measure. 2009 will be the year of Social Media Marketing for the successful travel and tourism business.
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POPSBuddystumbler buddystumbler allows you to make friends and meet people on AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Google for free online chat.
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POPSDemo Social Graph API - Site Connectivity This shows how your sites are connected. The top section lists your other sites that are connected to the URLs you entered ("me" links). The 'Score' column shows how well-linked each is - green for fully linked, red for just one. 'Possible connections' is a list of other sites that link to your URLs with 'me' links.
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POPSLaw and Order in the virtual universes i think it is interesting the way a community is being built. from the article: "In 2006, Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, canceled Marc Bragg's account for violating the world's policies on real estate deals. Bragg sued Linden, saying he legally owned the content he created in Second Life, including land and businesses. The suit was eventually settled, and Bragg's avatar was restored. Authorities also have intervened in crimes committed in online worlds. In the Netherlands, for example, a teenager was arrested for stealing more than $5,000 worth of virtual furniture in a world called Habbo. "This is such a nascent area when it comes to the law," said Sean F. Kane, a partner in the law firm Drakeford & Kane. "If a certain world allows you to be a thief, is it a crime or just an aspect of the game? Should real-world law apply?" there is much thinking to do, involved...
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POPS "Just Call Me Papa Joe".......or Else Lenin, the Tsar's nemesis, was third with nearly 187,000 votes. The top dozen included Peter the Great, Pushkin, Catherine the Great, Yuri Gagarin, Boris Yeltsin and Ivan the Terrible.