Following the December announcement that social network Bebo was aligning itself to the Facebook platform, the company announced today that the Bebo Open Application Platform is "100% open" – Continue reading »

According to a report by Justin Smith at Inside Facebook, the social network is planning to roll out three new features in the first quarter of 2008. The first, privacy Continue reading »

Many of our readers here at ReadWriteWeb are brave explorers of what's new in technology - while working inside large, often slow-changing organizations. For those of you who fit Continue reading »

Back in October Read/WriteWeb got the scoop that social network Bebo was about to announce a developer platform. This was pre-OpenSocial, which Bebo joined at the beginning of November. Then Continue reading »

LinkedIn just announced two new things: 1) a new Beta home page with a news feed; and 2) a developer API. Marshall Kirkpatrick covered the announcement this morning on Read/WriteWeb. Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/2008_Will_Be_The_Year_of_Business_Networking'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; In this post we will give you three reasons for that prediction, plus six specific predictions and one interesting dark Continue reading »

Back in August, we noted that most of the very big Facebook apps seem to be owned by Slide or RockYou!. At that point Slide had the most popular Facebook Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Social_Networks_Study_Released'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; faberNovel Consulting has released a research paper on social networks. The paper is an excellent theoretical overview of social networks 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 »

There was a time before Facebook when social networking on the Internet was about making anonymous connections with people you'd never met before rather than a way to keep an Continue reading »