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Its launch comes after a private beta period where it collected 20,000 registered users and built up support for more than 60,000 account types. These range from bank accounts to flight itineraries to social network profiles. The idea is that you can monitor and manage all of your online services in one place.
Since our last look at PageOnce, it has added a news feed-like feature that gives you an overview of all the changes that have taken place across your accounts. See when your checking account runs out, your flight gets delayed, you get sent a message on MySpace, etc.
PageOnce has also rolled out a series of improvements to particular account types. For example, the box for a cell phone account will estimate your wireless usage and predict whether you’re likely to go over your minutes. Accounts with customer support numbers can be called with one click from PageOnce itself, and many services can be signed into with just one click as well. Email support has also been further developed so it’s more like a proper webmail interface.
Top providers currently include Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, MySpace, Hotmail, Amazon, AT&T, Netflix, Flickr, Skype, American Express, and Ebay. I’m told that 50% percent of people have set up financial accounts, despite the security concerns that many commenters expressed on my first post (PageOnce assures us that it actively monitors against ID theft and fraud, and uses military level security standards).

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Last fall, MySpace looked like a dance club in need of a new DJ.
Its users were spending less time on the social networking site as upstart Facebook Inc. added new members at a breakneck pace and stole the spotlight with splashy interactive features that MySpace lacked.
The final blow came in the form of an investment from Microsoft Corp. that gave Facebook an eye-popping $15-billion valuation. MySpace no longer seemed the jewel it was in 2005, when News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch was hailed as a genius for snapping it up for $580 million.
“Facebook awoke the sleeping giant,” said social networking expert Joseph Smarr, an engineer for online address book Plaxo Inc.
So MySpace went to Silicon Valley to get its mojo back. To counter the perception that it was a digital laggard run by Beverly Hills posers without technical chops, it set out to win over the inventive software developers who make the entertaining applications that keep users hanging around.
MySpace was the first to attract these developers with its mass audience, but Facebook had grown popular by allowing them to cash in on features they created, such as Food Fight, which let users throw digital food at each other, and Causes, where they can join social or political campaigns.
MySpace decided to win back these developers by making it easier for them to make money from their viral creations. Now, that campaign is beginning to pay off. Some 1,000 new applications created for MySpace in the last two months by more than 10,000 developers have helped keep MySpace’s 117 million global users on the site longer.
This month, some major Internet players — Yahoo Inc., EBay Inc. and hot start-up Twitter — backed a MySpace initiative that lets users bring their profiles and network of friends to these sites.

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IF you’re changing your Facebook status every five minutes there is a good chance the only thing people will notice is that you’re an attention-seeking extrovert.
Social networking analyst Laurel Papworth says there are hidden messages behind the overt displays of self-promotion on websites like Facebook or MySpace.
Status updates can show if someone is an extrovert or fishing for sympathy, she claims.
"The extrovert, they are always going to be updating because the world revolves around them and one can assume that means the world needs to know how they are feeling from minute to minute," Ms Papworth told NEWS.com.au.
"There’s a lot of passive-aggressive behaviour in social networks and some interesting statuses — I’m mad at my boss, I’m mad at my mum, my teacher.
"We’re expecting our good friends to come and commiserate and give presents on our page or leave comments on our page presumably in support of our emotional state."
Conor Woods, a 32-year-old executive and Facebook fan, said he sometimes catches himself thinking in short, descriptive phrases for his next status update.
He said his updates were mostly attempts at humour but knew others who were trying to carve out a better image online than they enjoy in reality.
"We live in a time where everybody is really conscious of branding and advertising and everyone is really media literate… (people) know how to shape their identity online to give the best image of themselves," Mr Woods said.
Ms Papworth claims people who think in terms of visuals will update their photographs more often because that is what appeals to them.
But Mr Woods has his own ideas on this.
"I don’t like it when people use a photo that’s not them, using something like a rock star. It seems to me like they’re hiding away, like they don’t want to face who they are," he said.

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On this 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world’s most celebrated holidays probably wouldn’t be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.
Anna Jarvis would want us to give mothers a white carnation — she felt it signified the purity of a mother’s love.
Jarvis, who never married and never had children, got the Mother’s Day idea after her mother said it would be nice if someone created a memorial to mothers.
Three years after her mother died in 1905, she organized the first official mother’s day service at a church where her mother had spent more than 20 years teaching Sunday school.
Today, the former Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church is the official shrine to mothers around the world. On Sunday, the shrine will celebrate the 100th anniversary, giving each mother attending a special service a white carnation.
The shrine also serves as a "reminder to the accomplishments of these women and to the issues mothers still deal with today, trying to do the balancing act of being everything to everyone," said Cindi Mason, the shrine’s director.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 83 million mothers in the United States. More mothers now work out of the home and the number of single-mother households has tripled to more than 10 million since 1970.
What has allowed Mother’s Day to become celebrated on the second Sunday in May in 52 countries is "everyone has a mother," said Sally Thayer, a trustee of the International Mother’s Day Shrine in Grafton. "It’s a wonderful thing to celebrate."
Jarvis’ devotion to and her fierce defense of Mother’s Day could be tied to the feeling that "a certain era was passing and mothers like her mother were becoming fewer," said Laura Prieto, an associate professor of history and women’s studies at Simmons College in Boston.

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Del La Hoya is a big name boxing and now there is another Del La Hoya with the gloves on in the reality show ring.
(PRWEB) April 13, 2008 — Del La Hoya is a big name boxing and now there is another Del La Hoya with the gloves on but instead of the ring its, reality TV's biggest show on VH1, "Rock Of Love" with Brett Michael's of POISON.
Daisy Del La Hoya readies for action on final episode this Sunday, April 13. Daisy Del La Hoya from Denver, CO is making a huge name for herself as seen on the VH1's highly rated 2nd season of Brett Michael's "Rock Of Love" show each week as she competes for Brett's love match made in heaven. Now down to the final few weeks of the show season, the sexy tattooed goddess named Daisy and Amber are left to battle it out to the end. Daisy has been doing personal club appearances all over the country at this time thru her exclusive booking agent and appearance guru, Celebrity Agent, Mike Esterman of Esterman.com].
Esterman says, she has been one of the most requested names at this immediate time for all club talent buyers and she is so affordable to connect with her fans anywhere in the country plus she loves to travel and see new faces each day so it makes a winning combination." Daisy is one of those faces and names that will not be a flash in the pan as her roots have been digging deeper with long term deals in the works and more offers and requests are still pouring in for this highly requested sexy rocker girl with an appetite to take on the world of opportunity.
Daisy is also working on her music as a recording artists and will collaborate with other major players and names in the music industry to take that area to another level and some of her demo songs can be heard now on her MySpace page.Her official MySpace page,www.myspace.com/daisyrocksmusic For more information contact Mike Esterman at esterman @ mindspring.com. For media interviews contact Neil Cirucci at neilciruccipr @ aol.

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The New York Times has just found out the true identity of “Kristen,” the high-priced hooker that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer met in February. Ashley Alexandra Dupré is 22, an aspiring R&B singer, the product of “a broken home,” and, of course, gorgeous.
But she’s so much more. The Times gets a great deal of its biographical data from Dupré’s MySpace page, which is really quite something.
The objects of sex scandals once hid in shadows; for much of 1998, much of what we knew about Monica Lewinsky was second- or third-hand, not from the source. We’re in a different time now, of course.
Thanks to social networking, Ashley Alexandra Dupré comes to us a woman in full.
Excerpts from her MySpace bio:
When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music.

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The New York Times has just found out the true identity of “Kristen,” the high-priced hooker that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer met in February. Ashley Alexandra Dupré is 22, an aspiring R&B singer, the product of “a broken home,” and, of course, gorgeous.
But she’s so much more. The Times gets a great deal of its biographical data from Dupré’s MySpace page, which is really quite something.
The objects of sex scandals once hid in shadows; for much of 1998, much of what we knew about Monica Lewinsky was second- or third-hand, not from the source. We’re in a different time now, of course.
Thanks to social networking, Ashley Alexandra Dupré comes to us a woman in full.
Excerpts from her MySpace bio:
When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music.

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