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Iranian Social Networking, Hard-Line Style

"The website of the followers of Khamenei has been created. Please enter with your hijab and after completing your ablution." With that Facebook post, 29-year-old Iranian Ahmad heralded the arrival of a new social networking site, called Velayatmadaran, launched by the Iranian establishment. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE

Kanye West performs for Facebook, joins Twitter

With the release of a new album approaching, Kanye (KAHN'-yay) West is making sure he's up to date with the social networking sites.

FBI details worst social networking cyber crime problems

The FBI has in the past two years seen a major uptick in the use social networking accounts such as Facebook and MySpace for cyber crime and today it detailed that problem to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Read more

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Promises Speed, Accuracy Boost

Nuance Communications on Thursday released an updated version of its Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech-recognition program, which includes social-networking components and promises speeds up to three times faster than typing.

Social networks reach more women than men worldwide

Social networking sites reach a higher percentage of women than men globally, with 75.8 percent of all women online visiting a social networking site in May 2010 versus 69.7 percent of men, according to new research.