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• Archbishop: Facebook can lead to teen suicide

  The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England is warning that Facebook, texting and e-mails are destroying relationships and may even lead teens to commit suicide.

• Launch of beta government 2.0 paper an Australian first

  The Government 2.0 Taskforce has invited public collaboration on a government document by launching a beta version of their issues paper, in one of the first major Australian government initiatives to utilise collaborative Web 2.0 technologies.

• Iran so far unwilling to completely choke off 'Net

  Despite attempts to consolidate Internet traffic, the Iranian government has so far been unwilling to shut down its entire Internet infrastructure, according to analysis from security vendor Arbor Networks.

• World gets techie: Web 2.0 crowned 1 millionth English word

  There are a lot of really great words in the English language. Meaningful words. Age-old words. And some words that are just fun to say.

• Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking

  Rascism, hate, and militancy sites have tripled in number over the past year on the Web and within corners of social-networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Yahoo, according to one vendor tracking them.

• Are computers transforming humanity?

  Imagine a world where your phone is smart enough to order and pay for your morning coffee. No more giving orders, handing over your payment or waiting in lines. No more face-to-face chit-chat or human interaction.

• Research groups gravitate to IBM's sideways server cluster

  One year ago, IBM made a play for the Web 2.0 market with iDataPlex, a server cluster designed for the needs of Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

• Govt ICT ramps up change post Gershon: federal CIO

  The Australian government's ICT advisory body has had a busy six months pushing through recommendations of last year's Gershon report, and is poised to adopt more advanced technologies around Web 2.0, security, information sharing and green IT, according to federal government CIO Ann Steward.

• Amex gets social with CRM

  American Express is turning to social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in an effort to better manage customer relations and boost customer service levels.
  

• Web 2.0 White House takes to Facebook, Twitter

  President Barack Obama and his administration is keeping up his image as a tech-savvy president by launching a presence on a variety of social networking sites.

• Despite Obama's Web 2.0 efforts, e-user satisfaction slips

  Despite the Obama administration's efforts to update U.S. government web sites, satisfaction with them has fallen for the first time in a year, a survey of 280,000 users of government Web sites found.

• Oprah's Midas touch gives Twitter a 43% boost

  It seems Oprah Winfrey's Midas touch isn't limited to a talk show, her favorite brownies and surging book sales.<br/>

• Citrix NetScaler Web 2.0 Push cuts datacentre cost

  Santa Clara, Calif.-based Citrix Systems Inc. has added new technology to its NetScaler Web application delivery appliance designed to alleviate Web servers of the burden placed on them by resource-hungry Web 2.0 applications.

• Are Oprah, Ashton Kutcher taking the geek out of Twitter?

  With Ashton Kutcher racing CNN to be the first to have 1 million Twitter followers, and Twitter's CEO Evan Williams sitting down with the ladies on Oprah Friday, what is becoming of the Web site that's garnered such techie love?<br/>

• In nod to users, Facebook opens vote on terms of service

  About two months after outraged users <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9128169">hammered Facebook Inc.</a> for taking too much control over their content, the social networking site is now giving users a chance to vote over site governance issues.<br/>