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Nissan has plans to launch a social networking site for its employees over the next several months.

MySpace has been the hub of Music 2.0 promotion for more than a year, but recently Facebook has been stealing the social networking spotlight and the new music industry is following.

Even as its name grows shorter, Vehix.com’s focus is growing broader; the new Vehix will aim for “the integration of spot cable, video on demand, broadband and mobile devices.”

“This is my car. That’s where I spilled coffee. Oh, and this is where the dog vomited.” All right, so perhaps that wouldn’t be the best use of online video advertising. But according to a new report, automotive online video classifieds - and many other types of car-related, Internet-only videos - are on their way.

Novell claimed their move from ReiserFS to ext3 in SuSE Enterprise Linux was in the works before Hans Reiser was arrested on suspicion of murdering his estranged wife.

The people behind DuggTrends, which they describe as complementing Digg and providing insight into what and how people are voting, have launched a metasearch site for used cars.

Shift Communications, home to social media advocate Todd Defren, was named agency of record for Novell, largely on the strength of Shift's well-documented social media chops.

August contract light sweet crude dropped its rally on Friday aft Hurricane Dennis projections moved the storm away from oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The prices closed at $59.63 a barrel after climbing to $61.90 during the day. Brent crude traded in the IPE in London dropped $1.10 to $58.20.