LONELY hearts can 'flirt without fear' with anyone from old friends to the postman, thanks to a new internet dating site. New website 2shy2ask.co.uk, the brainchild of Bromley couple Jane and Chris Hodges, allows users to leave secret messages for those who catch their eye - and even advertise themselves to those in the know using unique car stickers.

MySpace is considering publishing a spin-off magazine, according to Advertising Age. AdAge.com reports that the website's owner, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, has held talks with music and fashion mag Nylon, with which it has previously published an annual MySpace Music magazine.

Social networking site Bebo has overtaken market leader MySpace among UK visitors. Bebo accounted for 13.54 per cent of UK visits to social networking sites last week, edging it slightly ahead of MySpace at 13.26 per cent, according to figures released by web monitoring company Hitwise.

She asked for a rugged professional man who owned his own home and did not smoke. She got a lorry-driving chain-smoker who lived in a caravan. No wonder Janet is suing the agency for eight dating disasters

Currently listed as the fourth most popular English-language Website on the planet and the sixth most popular in any language, MySpace has become a social networking phenomenon, and looks set to notch up an amazing 100 million accounts in the next few days. As we publish, it's sitting on 99,677,398 after being on 99.4m yesterday.

News Corp's Fox Interactive Media said last night that Google would provide search services for its MySpace social networking website, in a deal covering other Fox properties.

Viacom, the US media group, is considering a bid for Bebo, the social networking site. The acquisition would represent the latest attempt by Viacom to regain ground lost to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in the social networking and user-generated content realm.

Facebook, the No. 2 online social networking site, on Tuesday said it would give away 10 million music samplers to Macintosh and PC users from the iTunes Music Store in a back-to-school promotion.

Internet giant Yahoo and venture firm Canaan Partners said Wednesday that they have invested $8.65 million in an Indian portal, attracted by strong growth prospects in Asia's third-largest economy.

Social networking site Bebo has launched a music offering, Bebo Bands, heating up the competition with main rival MySpace.

Twenty years after Rupert Murdoch upended the status quo in television with the launch of Fox Broadcasting Co., News Corp. is in the vanguard of another media revolution with its recently acquired Internet assets including MySpace.com.

MySpace, the popular News Corp. social networking Web site, returned to service Monday morning after being knocked off the Internet this weekend amid record power use in its home state of California.

MTV Networks will on Monday make its biggest move into the "social networking" area, dominated by websites such as MySpace and Bebo, by unveiling plans for a television channel devoted to content created by its users.

The promoters of new movie Clerks II are promising to list MySpace members in the end credits of the film. All users who add the Clerks II MySpace page to their list of friends will be credited on the DVD release.

MYSPACE LAST WEEK BECAME THE most popular site on the Web in the United States, commanding 4.46 percent of all visits, according to new research by Hitwise. That's a greater market share than Yahoo's email service (4.42 percent), Yahoo's home page (4.25 percent), and Google (3.89 percent).

According to BoingBoing MySpace users are being tricked into installing adware on their PCs through embedded video links that appear in "friend" profiles, according to several blog reports today. Clicking on the "play" button in certain videos may mean you've just consented to install Zango's (180 Solutions) adware.

TechCrunch reports that up-and-coming social networking site Bebo, which has caught MySpace in the UK, has declined a $550 million buyout offer.

The Daily Mail has an article by Liz Franklin on her online dating disasters.

The head teacher of a Kent girls' school has written a letter to parents raising concerns about pupils' use of the teenage networking website, Bebo.

Anti-paedophile watchdogs are becoming increasingly worried about the potential for abuse of popular teenage networking Web sites like MySpace, Facebook and bebo. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre plans a series of workshops this month involving teachers, parents and Internet executives to examine the problem.