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Facebook Ads to Target You By Location and Language
Written by Sarah Perez / March 12, 2009 6:45 AM / 15 Comments
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Yesterday, as Facebook rolled out their revamped homepage which delivered new features like real-time updates, filters, and an improved sharing box, another update was quietly occurring behind the scenes. While Continue reading »


Facebook Announces New Homepages: It's All About the Stream
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 4, 2009 11:24 AM / 22 Comments
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Facebook today announced a major update to its homepages that will go live next Wednesday. The new homepages will put the news feed front and center and have both a Continue reading »


How Many Friends Can You Really Have on Facebook?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 27, 2009 9:00 AM / 26 Comments
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According to Cameron Marlow, Facebook's "in-house sociologist," that number is four if you are male and six if you are female. As the Economist reports this morning, Marlow's research indicates Continue reading »


MySpace Continues to Play Catch-up but Is It Too Late?
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 27, 2009 12:34 AM / 18 Comments
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While it used to be a bit of a media darling, it's not often that we write about MySpace anymore, but they continue to plug along - as one of Continue reading »


Bebo Now Emphasizes Lifestreaming - Updates Profile Pages
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 23, 2009 9:22 AM / 2 Comments
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Bebo, AOL's social network, added a lifestreaming feature today that allows users to pull in updates from Twitter, Flickr, and Delicious, as well as from Facebook and Myspace. Bebo also Continue reading »


Will a New MySpace Mobile Site Win Users Back from Facebook?
Written by Sarah Perez / February 17, 2009 7:00 AM / 28 Comments
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MySpace just made some major announcements. They've announced plans to develop mobile applications for the Nokia S60 as well as the much-anticipated Palm Continue reading »


Social Media Saves Lives: Salmonella Outbreak Pushes HHS, FDA, CDC to Get Social
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 16, 2009 11:00 PM / 9 Comments
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Following the recent peanut-butter-borne Salmonella outbreak, the United States Department of Health and Human Services - specifically the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Continue reading »


Black Out Your Twitter Photo: NZ Copyright Law Protest Goes Viral
Written by Richard MacManus / February 16, 2009 8:08 PM / 16 Comments
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Social networks are making it increasingly easy to organize and propagate protests. One that caught our eye today is the New Zealand Internet Blackout, which is using a variety of Continue reading »


MySpace's Former Owner: Facebook Will Win - for Now
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 12, 2009 1:00 AM / 14 Comments
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Brett Brewer, who co-founded InterMix Media - the company that developed MySpace - and turned a tidy profit when that company and MySpace were sold to NewsCorp for $580 million, Continue reading »


A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with One Tweet
Written by Lidija Davis / February 7, 2009 10:00 PM / 11 Comments
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Guardian writer Paul Smith has found a novel way to raise money for charity and test the power of social networking at the same time; he plans to Tweet his Continue reading »


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