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 »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Nearly_Never_Ending_Market_for_Niche_Social_Networks'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; A niche social network for people recovering from addiction, called SoberCircle, hit Del.icio.us popular this morning and it made me Continue reading »

Most of the comments and trackbacks from my post on LinkedIn confirmed that LinkedIn has momentum as a business social network. However some Facebook fans believe that LinkedIn is only

In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!), Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn’s lunch. Based on recent experience, I don’t think so. I recently Continue reading »

Online reputation company Rapleaf sent us some interesting statistics about the most prominent OpenSocial companies, along with Facebook. Rapleaf gathered data on users of MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5 Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/MySpace_Hacks_on_the_Rise_Musicians_Hit'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Roger Thompson at Exploit Prevention Labs has discovered multiple hacked MySpace pages, including MySpace's #4 most popular major music artist Continue reading »

Today at the Defrag Conference, Kevin Marks from Google gave a presentation on OpenSocial. Before working at Google, Kevin was Principal Engineer at Technorati. He's also well known as one Continue reading »

The big news of the day is that MySpace, the leading social networking platform, has joined Google's OpenSocial project as a partner. OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for Continue reading »

Techcrunch has sniffed out details on Google's new social network project, named OpenSocial (set to go live Thur US). OpenSocial is not a social network itself, rather it is a Continue reading »

So we remain split on whether to call it a "social graph," but one thing I think we can all agree on, is that many of us are suffering from Continue reading »