Microsoft announced a partnership this morning with five social networks on data portability. Starting today, users on Facebook and Bebo will be able to add friends via their Windows Live Continue reading »

Major social networking site Imeem launched a developer platform tonight that will enable read/write access to user information and more. Imeem is a site where users can upload music, create Continue reading »

The Associated Press reported this afternoon that its reporters were able to use an undisclosed method to access private photos on Facebook, including some from Paris Hilton at the Emmys Continue reading »

There was a lot of chatter over the weekend about folk punk rocker Billy Bragg's New York Times editorial where he argues that music artists who uploaded material to social Continue reading »

Groundbreaking social network LiveJournal is no longer allowing new users to sign up for Basic level accounts, which traded a pared-down feature set for an ad and cost free user Continue reading »

It's early in the lifespan of the MySpace platform but a week after the first apps went live we did some counting and the user spread seems just as imbalanced Continue reading »

Increasingly people accept that Facebook serves a different function than LinkedIn. In simple terms: deals on LinkedIn, dates on Facebook. This simple reality was obscured for a while, because the Continue reading »

Charlene Li gave the opening keynote at today's Graphing Social Patterns conference. The keynote was titled "The Future of Social Networks" and Charlene clarified that specifically she was focused on Continue reading »

Burlington, MA-based Mzinga, which provides social networking, community, and e-learning solutions for the enterprise, is today announcing that it has acquired Prospero. Prospero is itself a provider of enterprise community Continue reading »

The social networking market and ecosystem are in major flux and the early trailblazer LiveJournal announced today the formation of an Advisory Board that puts to rest any suspicion that Continue reading »