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Reporters, privacy settings and other people’s Bebo profiles

By Julie Starr | Published: January 23, 2008
Martin Hirst raises some interesting thoughts on how reporters in NZ are plundering Bebo, Facebook and other social network profile pages for quotes and pictures. He talks about the coverage of murdered economics student Sophie Elliott.
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In social networks as in life: it’s good to experiment but eventually you have to settle down

By Julie Starr | Published: January 23, 2008
NZ-born social networking site iYomu is trying to entice me back by offering me money, well, possible money - the chance of finding a US$100 icon in my vault, whatever that is. It's not going to work though.
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Bebo still number one in NZ with Facebook close behind

By Julie Starr | Published: January 21, 2008
Hitwise reports that Bebo remains the most popular social networking site in NZ, with 16.87% market share for the week ending 5 January 2008. Facebook followed closely at second position with 14.2% share. Bebo has strong brand recognition, Hitwise said, and was the leading search term for 2007.
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