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The Business of Online Communities

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Anshe Chung YouTube video is a 'terms of use violation'
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The video that depicts the griefing attack on Second Life land baroness Anshe Chung--removed by YouTube after a DMCA copyright infringement complaint--has been recategorized as a "terms of service violation."

• No whippersnappers allowed on this website
  January 12, 2007
  Does surfing the Web exhaust — and even exasperate — older people? The backers of Cranky.com are betting on it. Cranky is a specialty search engine designed to please aging baby boomers by processing every request from the perspective of...
• FCC to weigh cellphone plans' cancellation fees
  The Federal Communications Commission will decide this year whether to limit fees that mobile-phone carriers charge customers who cancel service before their contracts expire, FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin said. >>

• New Disney site limits self-expression

Users will find more content but won't be able to post personal information or photos.

Social Networking

• Online Dating: Safety Issues and Solutions in 2007; Efforts Under ...
  Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
  In December MySpace, an online social networking site, announced it was undertaking new efforts to block convicted sex offenders from their online community ...

• New Pew Memo: MySpace Crucial for Teens
  iMedia Connection - Dana Point,CA,USA
  ... online social networks, suggesting that effective marketing within online communities is a must as these teens begin to make lifelong brand decisions. ...
  
  
• P&G Launches an Online Community for Women
  Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
  "Developing sustainable digital business models provides new ways to listen to, learn from and engage with online communities and is key for long term ...

Healthcare Issues

• Community Voices at the National Center for Primary Care at ...
  PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
  The dramatic rise in HIV/AIDS rates among African American women is a virtual epidemic that is unnoticed and not responded to by those jails and prisons in ...

The Entertainment Industry

• Yahoo plans to deliver Web-based videos to TVs
  Yahoo Inc. is working with Akimbo Systems Inc. to deliver the videos it offers on the Web directly to televisions.
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• Internet service Avvenu to enable music sharing
  A new online music service lets people share music stored on their PCs with other computer users or those with Web-enabled mobile phones. >>

• Celebrities Turning to Photobucket to Further Engage Fan ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
  “Our fans are everything to us so being able to connect with them online is huge,” said Aimee, with the rock band Dirtie Blonde. ...
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The Gaming Industry

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Anshe Chung YouTube video is a 'terms of use violation'

January 13, 2007 8:20 AM PST

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The video that depicts the griefing attack on Second Life land baroness Anshe Chung--removed by YouTube after a DMCA copyright infringement complaint--has been recategorized as a "terms of service violation."

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• Prototype "Sears Virtual Home" to Open on IBM Island in Second Life
  Market Wire (press release) - USA
  ... new kinds of collaboration and education; and experimentations on pushing the limits with a broad community on what might be possible in virtual worlds. ...

• Disney to launch more massively multiplayer games
  Reuters Canada - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. sees launching more online so-called massively multiplayer games as part of a strategy to entertain kids wherever they ...

• 2007 PC Games Preview
  Ve3d.com - USA
  The Poop - As with all massively multiplayer games, connectivity and stability are huge issues to deal with. Funcom's last MMORPG offering, Anarchy Online, ...

• Playing with Our Heads
  Utne Reader Online - USA
  World of Warcraft is the latest and most popular in the genre of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, commonly called "virtual worlds. ...

• Ultimate Baseball Online Launches Year-Long Best of UBO 2007 ...
  Fast Pitch! (press release) - USA
  Ultimate Baseball Online, the world’s only massively multiplayer online sports game (MMOSG) for baseball, today officially launched its year-long ...