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What ad models most effectively reach social networkers, today? According to the social networkers themselves, opt-in advertising works best, while behavior-based campaigns and randomly generated ads are far less successful.
About 40% of social networkers condone the practice of opt-in advertising, according to data being released today by market research firm InsightExpress.
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The new “social Web” or Web 2.0 is gradually having an impact in schools as teachers and students begin to explore the potential of social networking, blogs, shared online features and wikis.  These technologies are giving rise to new educational opportunities - social collaborative learning. As time goes on, teachers are increasingly becoming familiarized [...]

Online video startup Metacafe is attempting to bring a little gravitas to the world of consumer-generated media with a video confessions channel created by Hollywood producer Steven Bochco that features short videos of twenty-something non-actors sharing highly personal experiences.
Sponsored by urban clothier American Apparel, the channel, Cafe Confidential, is targeting 18- to-30-year-olds. The unscripted confessions–about [...]

USAToday.com has given itself a Web 2.0 makeover, focusing more on connecting readers to each other, as well as its reporters and columnists. Among the changes are links and blurbs to other news sources, the ability for users to comment directly on stories, contribute to others’ comments, the ability to recommend stories to peers, the [...]