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• MOKO.mobi (ASX:MKB) signs Netherlands deal

  Mobile social networking company MOKO.mobi (ASX:MKB) has signed a contract to supply its platform for the Netherlands' KPN

• Twitter moving into its own data center

  Twitter hopes to improve the reliability of its service by moving into its own, custom-built data center later this year, the company said on Wednesday.

• Aging in Place Technologies Offer Business Opportunities

  Senior citizens want technology that allows them to stay in their homes instead of moving to facilities like nursing homes, says Larry Jorgensen, CIO of Ecumen, a nonprofit that offers senior housing services. Dozens of vendors now offer products to help older people age in place, says Laurie Orlov, an analyst with Aging in Place Technology Watch. For example, Cisco offers the easy-to-use Valet wireless router, Jitterbug and Clarity offer simplified cell phones, and Alarm.com offers a webcam for remote monitoring.

• Foursquare registers 100 millionth check-in

  Foursquare, the location-based social-networking service, registered its 100 millionth "check-in" on Monday evening, the company said Tuesday.

• Zendesk integrates Twitter into customer service app

  Zendesk has upgraded its Web-based help desk software to simplify and automate how its users capture, analyze and respond to public Twitter messages that merit a customer-service response.

• Twitter to promote special offers from marketers

  The program, called @earlybird, is part of Twitter's efforts to generate revenue from advertising

• Twitter to promote marketers' special offers

  Twitter has introduced another advertising service, hoping to generate revenue this time by promoting special offers, events and one-time deals from marketers.

• Suspicious Facebook app attracts nearly 300,000 fans

  A suspicious application circulating on Facebook has attracted nearly 300,000 fans whose profiles could be used as launching pads for spam, according to a security analyst.

• Workplace social networking rises despite lack of guidelines

  A new report has found employers expect to see an increase in the use of social networking tools despite a lack of IT policies being created around the use of sites like Twitter and Facebook by both staff and management teams.

• Microsoft Eats Its Own SharePoint 2010 Dog Food: 7 Lessons

  If Microsoft is going to tell large global enterprises how to roll out a social networking platform, the folks in Redmond sure as heck better do it themselves.

• Social networking ever more critical to job search success

  Jobvite, a maker of recruiting software, released the results of its third-annual social recruiting survey this morning, and the findings underscore the many reasons job seekers need to incorporate online social networking into their job searches.

• Facebook adds new controls for third-party apps

  Facebook has revamped the way its users share information with third-party applications and Web sites in an effort to make the process easier, the company said Wednesday.

• Building a Facebook killer won't be easy for Google

  Hearsay in recent days that Google is working hard on a project to better compete against Facebook has captured the attention of industry observers, who wonder what shape this initiative might take and what is its likelihood of success.

• Astronauts sky high on out-of-this-world twittering

  The astronauts of Space Shuttle mission STS-131 are delighted by the response to their extra-terrestrial Twitter messages, they said Monday.

• SharePoint 2010: Four Big-Name Social Networking Rivals

  Microsoft became decidedly more social with SharePoint 2010, adding social networking tools like improved wiki and blog integration, tagging and microblogging into its SharePoint MySites feature.