5:51 AM
Reporter:
Rai Sajid
Microsoft is testing a targeted social network called
So.cl (pronounced "social") on three college campuses.
So.cl is currently only available to students interested in social media at the University of Washington, Syracuse University, and New York University. The network is built off of Bing's API and, as described by Microsoft, works as "a research experiment for students focused on combining web browsing, search, and social networking for the purposes of learning."
The move is telling in that Microsoft is choosing not to go head-to-head with the big three of
Facebook,
Twitter and
Google Plus in social networking and is instead taking an approach that targets a very specific niche. Other companies like
Yammer and
SalesForce have also given up on creating big, all-encompassing social networks and are instead focusing on niche and enterprise markets.
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7:55 PM
Reporter:
Rai Sajid
The votes have been cast, the results have been tallied and the death of Osama bin Laden has been named the top news story of 2011 according to AOL’s “11 Days That Shaped 2011″ challenge. Organized in chronological order, Osama bin Laden’s death was sixth option on the site.
The site was created as a way to sum up the year in news based on shares, engagement and impact on the AOL website and its media partners, including The Huffington Post, Engadget and more.
Viewers were asked to vote for which news event they felt was the most important in 2011.
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7:21 PM
Reporter:
Rai Sajid
The leaked
subpoena sent to Twitter this month by the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office in Boston is causing some
hoopla on the web and raising the issue of law enforcement’s access to online personal data.
On Dec. 14, the D.A.’s Office issued a subpoena to Twitter in order to access the account information of two users who tweeted a list of personal information they allegedly obtained by hacking into the Boston Police Patrolmens’ Association. The hackers stole identifying information and Tweeted it to followers. The subpoena requests “available subscriber information, for the account or accounts associated with the following information, including IP address logs for account creation.”
In the subpoena, assistant D.A. Benjamin A. Goldberger requests that the investigation be kept from the Twitter users as to not impede the ongoing investigation. But the information was leaked. We reached out to Twitter for comment, but have yet to hear back.
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