Social Networks

Xobni plug in has appeared on public access; it can turn Microsoft Outlook into a convenient social instrument. It creates an individual profile for each person you ever wrote to, reflecting their contact information and contacts with other people. You can choose to exchange letters with users and call them via Skype.
This plug-in makes the option of searching through letters simple and convenient, which in a way reminds of Gmail search, also adding a possibility of analyzing recipient statistics.

A group of hackers GnuCitizen (site, wiki) has launched a project f a special social network for hackers. The new social network called House of hackers has already registered over a 1000 users from the moment of its launching.
“This social network does not involve any crime at all. It has been created to let the users exchange ideas, socialize, create certain groups, jointly wok on projects and a lt of other things” – said the creator of GnuCitizen Petk D. Petkov a.k.a. pdp.
PS: the social network is based n ning.com – a social network builder.

Google Reader now offers new options: it’s possible to post text records and unconditioned web-content even from sites that do not have rss-streams. And – most importantly – the possibility of commenting on the elements of newsfeeds.

My Space won court judgement against two notorious spammers, flooding the users of social networks with advertising messages. Los Angeles Federal Court on Monday fined Sanford Wallace (a.k.a. Spamford a.k.a. spam king) and Walter Rines unprecedented amounts – $ 233,777,500 for violating the CAN-SPAM act and $1,500,000 for the violation of California anti-phishing law.

Palabea is a new start-up that will be useful for those willing to learn a foreign language. Only there will you manage to find someone to practice your language skills or someone to help you with your studies. The site also offers a variety of educational content: documents, Podcasts, video lessons that are uploaded by the users.