<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : social : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/6172/1/" /><id>6172</id><summary><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></summary><issued>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I read an article yesterday, blaming Digg for good stories being ignored. More than anything else, his argument shows that Thomas Kostigen has no clue what he is talking about when it comes to social media.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Mobiles]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/42440/1/" /><id>42440</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Mobiles]]></summary><issued>2007-11-25T02:26:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-25T02:26:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Crispin Jones' expression of the impact mobile phones have on society.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/86830/1/" /><id>86830</id><summary><![CDATA[The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe]]></summary><issued>2008-12-28T16:42:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-28T16:42:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What's frightening about the spread of this Trojan is not the worm itself - it's really nothing new in terms of malware - but the way its being spread. Over the years people have learned to be suspicious of unknown links and attachments in their emails, so the virus writers turned to hit us where we're more vulnerable: on our social networks. Here, many people still have a feeling of comfort and security. They don't always have their guard up.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obama: I will tax more of your income for social security]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/41380/1/" /><id>41380</id><summary><![CDATA[Obama: I will tax more of your income for social security]]></summary><issued>2007-11-11T19:49:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-11T19:49:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Hardly surprising that a liberal democrat would want to tax more of your income. Of course reverting social security to something close to its original intent might help, but a plan like that wouldn't buy many votes from the entitlement-minded demographic.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/126892/1/" /><id>126892</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data]]></summary><issued>2009-07-06T17:50:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-06T17:50:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For years, government officials have urged people to protect their Social Security numbers by giving out the nine-digit codes only when absolutely necessary. Now it turns out that all the caution in the world may not be enough: New research shows that Social Security numbers can be predicted from publicly available birth information with a surprising degree of accuracy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[California Denies Social Security Benefits to Public Employees]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/114831/1/" /><id>114831</id><summary><![CDATA[California Denies Social Security Benefits to Public Employees]]></summary><issued>2009-05-16T10:56:46+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-16T10:56:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As if being a teacher wasn't hard enough. Turns out you could lose your Social Security benefits if you turned to teaching.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Security Plan B]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/38539/1/" /><id>38539</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Security Plan B]]></summary><issued>2007-10-16T18:07:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-16T18:07:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;We&#8217;ve all heard proposals for &#8220;privatizing&#8221; the Social Security system. The best private solution, of course, is simply to allow the American people to keep more of their paychecks and invest for retirement as they see fit.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130939/1/" /><id>130939</id><summary><![CDATA[Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection]]></summary><issued>2009-08-17T13:37:46+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-17T13:37:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The findings give weight to the common notion that rejection &quot;hurts&quot; by showing that a gene regulating the body's most potent painkillers &#8212; mu-opioids &#8212; is involved in socially painful experiences too, said study co-author Naomi Eisenberger, UCLA assistant professor of psychology and director of UCLA's Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Social Thermometer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133395/1/" /><id>133395</id><summary><![CDATA[The Social Thermometer]]></summary><issued>2009-09-21T02:21:32+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-21T02:21:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We often describe our social relationships in temperature metaphors, like &#8220;cold shoulder&#8221; or &#8220;warm memories&#8221; or even &#8220;she&#8217;s hot!&#8221; This is no coincidence. An experiment last year from the University of Toronto showed that thinking about an incident where the subject felt socially excluded led them to estimate the room&#8217;s temperature to be lower than those subjects who recalled a better experience.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76424/1/" /><id>76424</id><summary><![CDATA[Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet]]></summary><issued>2008-09-16T15:07:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-16T15:07:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Users spend so much time on social networks that they don't have time to look at adult sites.<br/><br/>Gee, I think someone's been looking over our shoulder.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How is your Social Security money being spent?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/127980/1/" /><id>127980</id><summary><![CDATA[How is your Social Security money being spent?]]></summary><issued>2009-07-16T03:59:35+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-16T03:59:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Claiming they needed to learn how to reduce stress because of a growing number of death threats being made against them, nearly 700 executives from the Social Security Administration (SSA) gathered for a lavish three-day conference in Phoenix, AZ last week, costing taxpayers about $700,000.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social security numbers for all to see!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/4830/1/" /><id>4830</id><summary><![CDATA[Social security numbers for all to see!]]></summary><issued>2006-10-31T11:09:33+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-31T11:09:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In Atlanta, a government site has social security numbers available to the public.  They claim they cannot 'by law alter the document'.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Buena Vista Social Club]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21734/1/" /><id>21734</id><summary><![CDATA[Buena Vista Social Club]]></summary><issued>2007-05-29T02:45:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-29T02:45:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Great, great music.  Sadly you don't hear this type of music much anymore.  This is a clip from the documentary about Buena Vista Social Club.  If you don't know anything about them, go and rent it.  You won't regret it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Blosker, a very strange social news site [NSFW]]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/13081/1/" /><id>13081</id><summary><![CDATA[Blosker, a very strange social news site [NSFW]]]></summary><issued>2007-03-14T07:09:40+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-14T07:09:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social networking in Firefox?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/15469/1/" /><id>15469</id><summary><![CDATA[Social networking in Firefox?]]></summary><issued>2007-04-07T07:24:10+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-07T07:24:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mozilla wants to integrate social networking features into Firefox, with new add-on The Coop. It could be a good step in gaining more browser market.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[High PR Backlinks via PRWeb]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13763/1/" /><id>13763</id><summary><![CDATA[High PR Backlinks via PRWeb]]></summary><issued>2007-03-21T12:53:48+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-21T12:53:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Get high PR backlinks by blogging press releases at PRWeb, and using their trackback feature.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social networking targets less computer-saavy demographic.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/6444/1/" /><id>6444</id><summary><![CDATA[Social networking targets less computer-saavy demographic.]]></summary><issued>2006-11-24T23:33:09+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-24T23:33:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Ning,&quot; among other new social networking sites are begininng to target the less technological generations who still want to connect and share things online.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[FatSecret.com: social networking and diets]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18623/1/" /><id>18623</id><summary><![CDATA[FatSecret.com: social networking and diets]]></summary><issued>2007-05-01T15:50:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-01T15:50:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The latest social networking site offers advice to the 'comfortably round' on dieting.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New Social Networking Site Launches Blog and Private Beta Signup]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11796/1/" /><id>11796</id><summary><![CDATA[New Social Networking Site Launches Blog and Private Beta Signup]]></summary><issued>2007-02-27T21:45:26+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-27T21:45:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mixxter.com, a new hip social networking site, has just launched their new blog and private beta signup publicly. Mixxter targets the MTV generation and, in turn, has turned to a more trendy style approach than its competitors.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Grateful Dead Fan Site to be Reborn as a Social Network ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22488/1/" /><id>22488</id><summary><![CDATA[Grateful Dead Fan Site to be Reborn as a Social Network ]]></summary><issued>2007-06-02T19:25:01+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-02T19:25:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The new version of Dead.net, the fan site for Dead Heads, which is soon to be released, will be a full blown social network similar to Myspace.<br/><br/>Mershaullk, don't leave us!!!]]></content></entry></items></xml>