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MySpace Goes Local: Announces Partnership with Citysearch
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 31, 2009 10:18 AM / 1 Comments
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MySpace today announced a partnership with Citysearch that will bring Citysearch's database of local businesses to the social network's new MySpace Local service. Users on MySpace can now review, rate, Continue reading »


What's Wrong with Facebook? When Strategy Fails to Meet Execution
Written by Ravit Lichtenberg from Ustrategy.com / March 31, 2009 10:00 AM / 18 Comments
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Over the last few weeks, Facebook has been rolling out its latest redesign. Within days of the first changes, a polling application on Facebook showed that 94% of the 634,484 Continue reading »


Making it Official: Government Agencies Sign Agreements with YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, and Blip
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 26, 2009 10:46 AM / 7 Comments
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U.S. government agencies can now officially use YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, and blip.tv, using special service agreements that comply with federal terms and conditions. Today, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced Continue reading »


Gen Y Says: "I Want My Social TV!"
Written by Sarah Perez / March 26, 2009 7:00 AM / 26 Comments
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New research from Parks Associates found that many Gen Y TV viewers are ready for a change when it comes to their television-watching experience. According to a recent report, over Continue reading »


Facebook Tweaks New Homepages in Response to User Complaints
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 25, 2009 9:48 AM / 13 Comments
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As we reported last week, Facebook's users clearly disliked the latest updates to their homepages, and now, Facebook is giving in to pressure from its most vocal users. According to Continue reading »


Streamy Takes Social Media Aggregation to the Next Level
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 19, 2009 12:21 PM / 18 Comments
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Streamy, which calls itself a "real-time news reading and sharing site," opened its doors today after an 18-month long private beta. Streamy is a mix between an RSS reader, a Continue reading »


Facebook's Users Don't Like Change
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 19, 2009 10:25 AM / 28 Comments
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When Facebook updated its users' homepages last week, we already wondered how users would react to these changes. After all, when Facebook introduced the news feed in 2006, its users Continue reading »


Facebook's New Privacy Controls Encourage Openness
Written by Sarah Perez / March 16, 2009 3:13 PM / 12 Comments
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Today, Facebook announced new privacy settings which let you selectively open up portions of your personal profile to everyone on the Facebook social network. As an alternative to the new Continue reading »


Foursquare: Location-Aware Social Networking Done Right
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 12, 2009 11:27 PM / 10 Comments
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Just in time for SXSW, Dennis Crowley, one of the original developers of Dodgeball, has released a new location-aware social app (iTunes link) for the iPhone: Foursquare. At its core, Continue reading »


New Social Network for Music, Worldsings, Launches with Contest for World's Best Song
Written by Sarah Perez / March 12, 2009 10:00 AM / 6 Comments
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A new social networking site for music called WorldSings wants to "unite artists and music fans from around the world." If that concept sounds a lot like what MySpace is Continue reading »


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