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The dinner that destroyed Gawker

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Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now.

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MySpace Swallows Fox Audience Network

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Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , which is a unit of News Corporation, said late Monday that it is integrating the Fox Audience Network (FAN) directly with MySpace. Fox Audience Network is News Corp's ad serving unit. The Fox Audience Network was created in 2007 as a spinout of MySpace.

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Geni Connects With Facebook

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style genealogy and social networking web sites for families, has connected the company's service with the popular Facebook social networking web site. According to Geni's Facebook page, the firm has been working on connecting the two services since November of 2007. READ MORE>>.

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United Online Cutting at Classmates?

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Woodland Hills-based United Online, which operates the Classmates.com reunion and social networking site, appears to be cutting back staff, according to sources close to the firm. Classmates was acquired by United Online in 2004; United Online attempted to take the firm through an IPO in 2007.

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Interview with Babette Pepaj, BakeSpace

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Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television. What is BakeSpace?

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Interview with Rob Farrow, Chi.mp

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Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. In late 2007, Chi.mp Meebo is another powerful site.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

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We spoke with Derrick Oien, president and co-founder of the firm, about the company's mobile social networking applications, as well as about his view on penetrating the mobile carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? The second customer is the social networking sites.