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When MySpace first launched, one of its main draws was the music offered by independent artists on the site, something which generated a strong following among new musicians and their

How would you feel if you spent more than $1 million throwing a party and less than 100 or even 1,000 people showed up? That sinking feeling is spreading over

Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License

As a follow-up from our post earlier today - The Web 2.0 Election: Does the Internet Matter in Election Politics? - The Washington Post is reporting that online "friends" could

John Battelle just posted that Amazon is opening up its Alexa search data and tools to the world! According to John, Alexa has about 5 billion documents in its index,

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_deals/The_Open_Coffee_Club_Movement'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The OpenCoffee Club is "a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet" according to their recently

Last November, when Google launched Open Social we asked readers if Facebook would join Google's platform. The results were split right down the middle, but as we get farther from

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Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Top Web News The main Web tech news this week was Adobe's unveiling of Apollo, their next-generation web

Social networking startup CollectiveX has just launched a new product called Groupsites. TechCrunch has the details of Groupsites, noting that it's a combination of discussion forums, email lists, calendars and