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Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks to CNET News’ Dan Farber about how the online recruitment site is building new search engine tools to provide more targeted job recommendations.

Amazon has added another tuck-in acquisition: Shelfari an online community for book worms. Shelfari is likely to be integrated into Amazon’s services and continue to exist as a separate destination.

Amazon, which helped fund the social networking startup, now owns Shelfari and a stake in its primary rival LibraryThing (Techmeme).

The days of the yearbook may be waning. The traditional yearbook is facing challenges from the economy and social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Several high schools and colleges across the country have seen a downturn in sales.

The next great privacy tempest seems like a yawner: What will happen with the data gathered by social networking or personal information services that track where you and your friends are?

Like with TV, if you don’t like what you’re gonna get, don’t get into it.

Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a location management service that is the latest step in the company’s effort to add social networking features to its portfolio of sites and open its platform.

Security–actually insecurity–is a very social thing. Get a cute malware infested email and forward it along to your contact list.

See a site that’s interesting–but is really just a phishing expedition–and you get hit with a virus/worm/rootkit.

Social engineering makes the security world go around. So what do you do if you’re Facebook or MySpace?

I just did a few posts about the recent Quinnipiac polls for Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and that got me thinking about the overall electoral college outlook.

After all, whoever gets to 270 first is what really matters.

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, moderator Adam Zawel of INmobile.org leads a discussion on mobile social networking.

He asks the panel if the trend will be slow to progress in the United States versus other parts of the world.

My hunch: It’s probably like the rest of the wireless industry. The U.S.

Children growing up alongside social networking websites may have a "dangerous" view of the world, says an expert.

Content management software vendors are pondering social networking features and are expected to collaborate or acquire so-called white label networks to make their enterprise apps more social.

That’s one of the takeaways from Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Forrester.