I agree with Sam Gustin when he says that yesterday’s Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco was in the end a snoozer, but not because CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

Spanish speakers who are using LinkedIn will be happy to know that this business social network now supports two languages: English and Spanish. You can choose the...

At the beginning of the year I blogged a bit about games in social networks (here and here), since then the category has gone from strength to strength as measured by app...

Spleak widgets can be customized and embedded into other social network profiles.Spleak Media Network, the San Francisco-based startup focused on creating "interactive...

Question: “As far as your business goes, which is proving the bigger challenge monetising existing content or increasing views?” Answer: One year after...

According to the latest data from Hitwise, Facebook, which is kicking off its developer conference today, grew 40% over the last year, while its biggest competitor,...

Facebook made several important announcements to kickoff its F8 developer conference this afternoon: the launch of Facebook Connect, the Great Apps program for preferred...

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MySpace is rolling out a couple of announcements this morning a day ahead of Facebook’s F8 developer conference. The first is confirmation of our story that they...

the4thdimension writes "MySpace has joined a coalition of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't familiar with the OpenID coalition, they are a...

When I was asked to present the closing keynote at eduWeb 2008 last October, I said to myself: “this is great! For the first time in my life, I’m 100% sure I...

MySpace has given a boost to the open-source Open ID by supporting it, in a move that began yesterday. Open ID is open source technology that allows...

Facebook gained nearly two millions US users in June versus May, while MySpace lost about a million, according to the latest data from comScore. MySpace is still nearly...

From TubeMogul: About a month ago, we launched a “Top 40″ list of the users getting the most views from videos deployed by us (an admittedly biased list, but an...

San Francisco-based social network Hi5 is touting some data from comScore today pertaining to its Q1 and Q2 2008 performance. It claims to have grown 79% since the start...

Graphing Social Patterns East is almost upon us -- my conference on social networks & platforms is just one week away, beginning Mon June 9th thru Wed June 11th...

From Mashable yesterday: The so-called social Web just became legitimately open, as MySpace has launched the two first implementations of its Data Availability initiative...

Facebook has announced the official launch of its Facebook Connect offering, which will allow users to port their profile data to third-party Web sites. The company is...

This spring, MySpace formally unveilled plans to start a new music site, which it will run as a joint venture with (most of) the big music labels. Close to four months...

MySpace will announce support for the OpenID single sign-on framework sometime this week, we’ve heard from multiple sources. This will be the second largest...