Kara Swisher

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London's Bipolar Relationship With Social Networks

Here are photographs from two newspapers–one headline from the Daily Telegraph about how employers are trying to ban the use of increasingly popular social-networking sites, specifically Facebook, because it is getting in the way of work, while another in the free thelondonpaper is a contest for readers to talk about what’s uncool about the site.

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In any case, social-networking sites (including MySpace and Bebo, as well as Facebook) have boomed here lately, for example, with London becoming Facebook’s largest geographic network with more than 800,000 users.


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I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts … [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.

— HBO programming president Michael Lombardo, talking to Entertainment Weekly about the “rampant” piracy of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”