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If there's anything Twitter can be counted on for, lately it's been the service's instability. The situation got so bad that avid twitterers have now gotten used to loading up

While social media services such as Twitter and Friendfeed are great ways to start making connections, nothing compares to face-to-face interaction. Mobile social networks like Brightkite aim to bring users

Yesterday, the big news for the identi.ca crowd was an answer to their wishes: Identi.ca is now supported in the AIR app Twhirl. Why is the support for this open-source

Lifehacker founder and former lead editor Gina Trapani announced this morning that she's started a new blog called Smarterware.org. She says the new site has "no ads, no digg badges,

If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging,

A month ago we reported that Facebook was beta testing a 'lite' version of its popular social networking site. http://lite.facebook.com has just become available to U.S. users. The lite version

Last month, we posed the question "are trolls ruining social media?" - a topic that seems to have reared its ugly head once again over the weekend, this time with

Today, socialmedian, the social news web site which we've described as a "less noisy FriendFeed" launched a new set of features called "Replize." Now socialmedian users can track conversations on

...And Continues To Be Awesome! If you're a Firefox and Google Reader user and you haven't yet installed the Feedly plugin, you're going to want to install it today after

Yahoo! owned MyBlogLog flipped the switch tonight on a major overhaul of user profile pages and now integrates activity data from other services around the web. Less than a week