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Wouldn’t it be great to be able to transfer your data from your profile on one social network to your profile on another social network? The Data Portability Workgroup is aiming to do that very thing. WebProNews Reporter Abby Prince talked with Chris Saad, DataPorability.org’s Co-Founder and Chairman, about the initiative. The Data Portability Workgroup contains [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Chris Saad, Data Portability Workgroup, dataportability.org, Facebook, John McCrea, Joseph Smarr, News Update, Plaxo, Portable Social Networks, Robert Scoble, Social Networking

Moving along in the social networking craze, LifeAt.com and MeetTheNeighbors.org offer a way to get to know your real neighbors in your apartment building or your neighborhood. WebProNews Reporter Kara Ratliff spoke with Chief Operating Officer for LifeAt, Matthew Goldstein and Creator of MeetTheNeighbors, Jared Nissim about the two companies. For more information on [...] Tags: Jared Nissim, Kara Ratliff, LifeAt.com, Matthew Goldstein, MeetTheNeighbors.org, News Update, Social Networking

Senior SEO Analyst from Blue Moon Works, Cindy Krum spent some time talking with Reporter Kara Ratliff of WebProNews at SMX Social Media 2007 in New York City. Krum talks about how you can use MySpace to really brand your product. She describes the steps you need to take and the woahs of [...] Tags: Blue Moon Works, Cindy Krum, Kara Ratliff, MySpace, SMX, Social Networking

What is social media? Why is it important? Why is it so popular now? At SMX Social Media 2007 in New York City, WebProNews Reporter Kara Ratliff caught up with Rand Fishkin of seomoz.org to get these answers. Fishkin discusses blogging and social networking and what could be in store for the future of social [...] Tags: Blogging, Kara Ratliff, Rand Fishkin, seomoz.org, SMX, Social Networking

Donna Hoffman, the Chancellor’s Chair and Co-Director of Internet Retailing of the Sloan Center, spoke with WebProNews at the Shop.org Annual Summit in Las Vegas. Hoffman discusses unique characteristics of the Internet that are leading to trends that Internet retailers really need to know about including social networking and personalization. She also talks about the [...] Tags: Donna Hoffman, Kara Raliff, Las Vegas, SEO, shop.org, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing, Social Networking, Web 3.0

Yahoo incorporated shares plummeted downward in premarket trading after reports say Yahoo may regret belittling the network site Facebook during negotiations. Last year, Yahoo attempted to buy Facebook beginning at $1 billion dollars and then even offering $1.62 billion dollars; but the two sides could not agree. Yahoo missed out on a great opportunity since [...] Tags: Andrea Diebold, Facebook, Mark May, News Update, Shares, Social Networking, yahoo

Google has your links, but they haven’t always shown you all of them. Now they will, thanks to a recent update at Webmaster Central. Webmasters who verify ownership will be able to see a much larger sample of links to pages than they can now with the “link” operator. Search expert Danny Sullivan said Google kept [...] Tags: Social Networking, steve ballmer office, superbowl commercials, Webmaster Central