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digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/software/Battle_of_the_DIY_Social_Networks_Ning_vibEngine_PeopleAggregator'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; There are a number of DIY social network services on the market, and in this post we'll take a look

Not to be outdone by the recent US Presidential hoopla, the OpenSocial Foundation - a non-profit corporation that facilitates the development of OpenSocial specifications - held its elections for "Community

ProgrammableWeb has released a list of 'popular' mashups, which John Musser calculated from a mix of click-throughs and user 'votes' based on a 1 to 5 scale rating system. Here

Earlier this week something interesting happened in the world of social networking: Verizon, which this week became America's largest mobile carrier after moving to acquire Alltel, moved its branded social

Wufoo is a new web app that enables users to create their own web forms. I have to disclaim that Kevin Hale, the guy who re-designed my blog, is one

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

HiveLive, a B2B social software platform provider, brings the social web to businesses by providing them with customizable tools like user profiles, blogs, discussion forums, wikis, and RSS which they

RSS feed remixing has been a pet topic of mine for quite some time, so tonight it was a pleasure to discover Yahoo's new Pipes service (hat-tip Thejesh). It's a

TechCrunch's Mike Butcher reports about Turkish social network Yonja's $12.5 million worth of funding and asks, "What is it about Turkey?." As a Turkish native, I think I am the

The web as a platform is something we have written about quite a lot over the years here at Read/WriteWeb. Over the weekend, Marc Andreessen put up a lengthy post