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Social Security disability benefits may be subject to cuts  in President Bush’s proposal to overhaul the system.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has given a private clue on an issue she has refused to discuss publicly — how to preserve Social Security in the long term.

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Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday that if elected he will push to increase the amount of income that is taxed to provide monthly Social Security benefits.

House Republicans announced plans Friday to draft Social Security legislation by June as President Bush took his fleshed-out ideas for reform to the public.

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Social Security checks for nearly 49 million Americans are going up by 3.3 percent in 2007, a smaller percentage gain than this year, the government announced Wednesday.

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Sports-focused social media company Citizen Sports has acquired a trio of social media application developers: Sportacular, Sport Interactiva, and FantasyBook. Terms of the deals were not disclosed. The SF-based company launched in 2005 ...

While several posts have emerged recently crediting Social Networks (Social Media) with Obama's victory, I'd like to inject another element into the discussion - people, sociology, and the communities and tools that bind them, us, ...

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The New York-based blog network will turn its Silicon Valley title into a column on Gawker.com written by current Valleywag editor Owen Thomas. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.

Microsoft aims to unify its disparate communications tools with a common set of contacts and concepts like news feeds and profiles borrowed from the world of social networking. Read this blog post by Ina Fried on Microsoft.

Microsoft has launched a new version of its Windows Live service, or whatever it was before (search plus its myriad communication services tacked on), and now it is a full-blown social network, with the idea to integrate all the ...

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Perhaps influenced by prominent social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, Microsoft will begin integrating features such as a news feed and profiles into its Windows Live applications. On this Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi ...

Today at OpenSocial's first birthday event, a group of press, developers, and members of the OpenSocial team convened to discuss the future of ...

Watching the periodic eruptions between PR folks and the 'community,' it's easy to confuse form with substance. Read this blog post by Charles Cooper on Coop's Corner.

At first, the social gaming startup Zynga's new iPhone game Live Poker seems pretty run-of-the-mill. The interface is intuitive, the ...

Now you can have it on the iPhone and play against your friends who are on the web at one of these social nets. Like Texas Hold'em on the social nets, Live Poker is free but there is also an upgraded version with a larger chip package ...

Microsoft announced Windows Live Profiles today, which takes some lessons from social networking sites and FriendFeed. The new profile page provides a central hub for all your online ...

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Discover how social networking has developed its own niche for book enthusiasts, find out where readers can connect with others online and the benefits of joining.

Reem rejoins us for this edition of Social Blend, and puts us completely back in line. Politics and the election dominate our topics this week, particularly our reactions to the victory of President Obama, and our thoughts on how social ...

Gannett's acquisition of social media services firm Ripple6 is another indication of the newspaper publisher's aim to expand its digital businesses while enhancing its core operation.

The violent death of ‘Baby P’ has sparked a heated debate on the quality of social services in this country: despite 60 visits from social workers over the course of one-and-a-half years, Haringey Council authorities failed to remove ...

The Dallas News won’t come out and say it, but it’s blindingly obvious this school district was cooking up fake Social Security numbers for illegal alien teachers (referred to in the report as “foreign educators”). ...

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The survey results, shown at the Society for New Communications Research Symposium today in Cambridge, Mass., show big gains in use of social media. Satisfaction with every type of social media increased except for one: wikis.

You may recall that the Pentagon killed off military user access to YouTube and other social media sites back in 2007 in a effort to protect information and reduce drag on the department's networks -- not to mention crack down or at ...

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First, I love the headline on this article: “Dallas ISD faulted for using fake Social Security numbers." Er, faulted? Social Security fraud is a felony, not a policy disagreement. For that matter, why didn’t the Texas Education Agency ...

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I could talk about social networking until I’m blue in the face (actually, I do talk about social networking until I’m blue in the face), but there’s only so much you can say without using examples. Booksquare lists several publishing ...

Zenbe, a social e-mail aggregator which made an impression on us when we first reviewed the service, is now out of beta and ...

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Social recommendation and personalization platform Plista, one of the companies in this year's TechCrunch50 DemoPit, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from ...

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The rise of social computing and its arrival as a widespread workplace activity could be leading to cultural shock in some organizations. Venkatesh Rao takes a look at these issues and the likely outcomes as advances in social systems ...

One would think that few ads could be less controversial than ads for painkillers, but over the weekend, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Motrin, found itself in ...

Guest blogger Karen Lynn Vincent, a serial social benefit entrepreneur, is the co-founder and current chief operating officer at Resdida, a hybrid social business distributing content via mobile devices to the rural poor. ...

Binghamton University (formerly SUNY–Binghamton) has abandoned its attempt to suspend or expel a student who put up posters challenging the Department of Social Work.

Looking back, Motrin ad pain worsened by not fully embracing social media. By Justin Goldsborough | November 17th, 2008. Justin case you were wondering…I’ve been saying for a while now that if you don’t get social media, ...

How effective is your company listening to social media? Do you have the ability to respond quickly and effectively within the space. Everyone knows my story on Twitter, so I will not go into that here. But one thing I have always said ...

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Yesterday, social entrepreneurs flocked to the MaRS auditorium for the Social Entrepreneurship Summit. The speaker list was stacked: from local Geoff Cape, last year’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year, to Nick Temple of the School for ...

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In a brand new study commissioned by the MacArthur Foundation, the findings show that America's teens are developing important social and technical skills online. The social skills that today's teens are learning are the same type that ...

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This is Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008 and today Thursday 20 November is Social Enterprise Day. It’s all run by the Make your Mark campaign, to encourage more people to be entrepreneurs in the UK. The Make your Mark website has a ...

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The Young Turks Illustrate Progressives' Web Video Dominance. My piece out today on frustrated internet activists in the Republican Party begins with a story from Michael Turk, a conservative activist who ran the eCampaign division at ...

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