It’s a typical Monday morning. Annie Boccio — wife, mother of three and freelance Web designer — has a long list of things to do at home.

But for now, she is sitting at her home computer in Green Brook, N.J., and composing her first “tweet” of the day.

“Good morning Twitter! All over the place today, lots of little errands and chores, phone calls to make, e-mails to send, glad I made a list!” Boccio writes at 9:52 a.m.

Within seconds, the short message is sent out to the computers, cellphones and PDAs of more than 100 of Boccio’s friends, acquaintances and online followers. Over the course of the day, Boccio will send out nearly two dozen more short messages detailing her day (she spoke to her Mom on the phone, ate too many chocolate espresso beans, blew off her to-do list). At 8:58 p.m., she finally signs off with a message about watching the latest episode of “Heroes.”

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A Mozilla Labs project aims to drive social networking features into the Firefox web browser.
Work is underway on The Coop, an add-on for Firefox that will tap the social aspects of popular web services such as photo sharing, blogging, and tagging, as well as sharing the user’s activity with their friends.

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Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of the mockups created by Mike Beltzner (see above) suggest a significant overlap in the two products.

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hi5, which launched in late 2003, is a massive MySpace-style social network. The site targets the teens and twenties demographic and claims to have over 40 million members. According to the latest Hitwise stats (June ‘06), hi5 is the 8th most visited US social network. However, the site is losing market share - it now accounts for 0.78% of the social networking market, down from 1.06% in May. And although not explicitly stated, Hi5 appears to be more targeted than MySpace - many of the site’s users are fans of HipHop and R&B.

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For a few days since last week, the rogue software known as WinFixer was being served to Windows Live Messenger and MSN Groups users by MSN’s advertising service

at rad.msn.com

.

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