The New York Times is reporting that ABC News and Facebook have formed a partnership that will bring ABC political coverage to Facebook while lending social networking cred to the Continue reading »

This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Economic_Idiocy_of_Blocking_Social_Media_Traffic'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = Continue reading »

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, today published a blog post about what he terms the Graph, which is similar (if not identical) to his Semantic Web vision. Continue reading »

At the risk of reporting rumors (ahem), I can't resist making a note of this one. For the past couple of weeks we have been analyzing LinkedIn and comparing it Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/R_WW_Thanksgiving_Thank_You_Google_for_Open_Social'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; When Google and others ganged up on Facebook a few weeks ago, to many of us, Open Social looked like Continue reading »

Political action and consumer advocacy organization MoveOn this week launched a public campaign against Facebook's new Project Beacon advertising system (our coverage). MoveOn characterizes the ad system as "a huge Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Visualizing_Social_Software_Best_Practices_Three_Approaches'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Here in the US it's the busiest travel day of the year and while media events and new product launches Continue reading »

If you walk into any suburban Starbucks these days, you won't see people's faces, instead you'll see laptops. Moms and dads increasingly work from home; broadband took over the Continue reading »

I am the wrong age for Facebook or MySpace. But I happen to have a relative who is in the LA music scene, who gave me a tour from his Continue reading »

We've discussed before on Read/WriteWeb about how we've entered The Digestion Phase of the Web, a term that Alex Iskold coined. He defined it as "a period of time for Continue reading »