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MySpace is announcing this morning that it will become an OpenID authenticating party and offer developers a deeper level of access to user data than was previously available. As Facebook

The much hyped web drama "Quarterlife," which is set to debut on MySpace on November 12, may be making the jump to television as a result of the Hollywood

SocialVibe is an online popularity contest that turns corporate advertising into money for charity. Users compete for status and prizes by shilling for their favorite brands, while a cut of

Bill Tancer, Hitwise GM of Global tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/one_time_in_bandcamp_challenging_myspace_music.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; Research recently wrote about MySpace's departure as a top traffic generator for entertainment and music sites. Says Tancer,

In a surprise move just unveiled this morning, a handful of big players led by MySpace and Yahoo! have announced that public profiles, photos, videos and friend networks will now

Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. Below is a map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by

Yesterday venture capitalist Josh Kopelman unleashed a diatribe ripping into MySpace and praising Facebook for the recent move to open up and become a platform for widget developers. Kopelman estimates

Mobile social networking company Frengo has released a toolkit for development of Open Social and Facebook applications on mobile phones. The Open Social Mobile Toolkit supports MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, and

This week is Facebook Week on Read/WriteWeb. Over the next 5 days we're going to focus on the most impressive Web Company of 2007 - analyzing it and reporting on

Giant social networks Myspace and Facebook have plans to expand beyond their walls. Myspace announced on Thursday its Data Availability platform and Facebook countered quickly with Facebook Connect. Now it