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NetIDme Welcomes Social Networking Safety Measures

Julie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:50:17 +0000

MySpace has announced a range of measures designed to help protect children who use the popular social networking site. The agreement, which was endorsed by 49 states, will involve setting up a safety taskforce to including social networks, state reps and age verification providers. The states are hoping the task force will help create industry-wide safety standards for things like verifying the age of users, identifying predators, and reporting inappropriate content.

Texas AG, Greg Abbot said:
“We do not believe that MySpace.com — or any other social-networking site — can adequately protect minors” without an age verification system. We are concerned that our signing the joint statement would be misperceived as an endorsement of the inadequate safety measures.”

Keeping predators off MySpace has proved a major issue for the social networking site. Tens of thousands of offenders have been identified on the site, prompting the deletion of 29,000 profiles in July 2007.

NetIDme CEO Alex Hewitt said:

“We are very pleased that MySpace has taken the first steps towards protecting their users from predators. We hope to see all other social networking sites quickly following this example.

Some sites have already implemented, or are working towards implementing age and ID verification systems that help protect children. However, I would urge parents to ensure that the sites their children use have adequate systems in place.

If users are unable to set up completely anonymous accounts, the popularity of posting unacceptable material will decline. It’s well known that ‘bad behaviour’ drastically reduces when there’s a chance of being caught.

Hopefully, it’s only a matter of time before all social networking and community sites will be obliged to increase protection for young people. MySpace have taken the first step, and we welcome their efforts in the fight against online predators.”

NetIDme Campaign up for two awards

shaunzo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:27:03 +0000

NetIDme Campaign up for two CiPR Pride Awards

The NetIDme Stranger Danger Media Campaign, managed by Weber Shandwick Scotland, has been shortlisted for two CiPR Pride Awards. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on 16th November 2007, in Glasgow, UK. NetIDme also received the prestigious European-wide SABRE award for Media Relations earlier this year.

The NetIDme campaign is up for two categories: Media Relations and Consumer Relations. The awards dinner takes place at the SAS Radisson Hotel in Glasgow, 16th November 2007

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NetIDme Support Age Verification in UK Gambling

shaunzo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:09:54 +0000

NetIDme Article: Age verification expert urges gaming websites to take new gambling act seriously. All UK gaming sites must now carry out age verification checks – Read the full NetIDme article at TMCnet

Religious Social Networking Site Raises VC

shaunzo — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:17:35 +0000

Mashable reports today that CircleBuilder, a site where churches can set up social networks, has raised $800,000 from Great Lakes Angels and others. (more)

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Independent Review of NetIDme Service

shaunzo — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:31:32 +0000

Check out the latest review for NetIDme

Disney launching social network for gamers

shaunzo — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:07:23 +0000

Disney is launching DGamer, an online community for gamers to connect with each other. It’s set to launch initially in North America, in may 2008, exclusively Disney Interactive Studios Nintendo DS video games. more at Mashable

Gartner Predicts Instant Messaging will be defacto business tool

shaunzo — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:00:37 +0000

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2011, IM will be the de facto tool for voice, video and text chat with 95% of workers in leading global organisations using it as their primary interface for real-time communications by 2013. more

As a result, corporate based IM systems are emerging: CSIM Enterprise

NetIDme > Identity 2.0

shaunzo — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:54:06 +0000

It looks like OpenID & user centric identity principles are gaining momentum. Check out this good article on the NOSE Blog

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500,000 iPhones going, going, gone…

shaunzo — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:22:14 +0000

Mashable reports that’s the number of phones Apple offloaded to U.S. customers this weekend. The majority of buyers chose the 8GB version.

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NetIDme > Social Sites

shaunzo — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:02:44 +0000

MySpace is running out of breath, while Bebo and Facebook are fast catching up. That’s the message from the latest figures on social networking in Britain.

MySpace has long been the leading site for young networkers who want to run their social lives online.

But research firm Nielsen/NetRatings says May saw a drop in UK traffic to MySpace, while Bebo and Facebook continued to attract new users.

Full BBC Article

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