Tagged.com Settles Suits Over E-mail Messages

Tagged.com, the San Francisco-based social network that was criticized earlier this year for deceiving people into signing up for the service, has settled two separate lawsuits with the attorneys general of New York and Texas. From April to June of this year, the site sent 60 million messages to Internet users with personal entreaties to join the social network (e.g., "Brad has posted a private photo on tagged.com").