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While companies may struggle to catch on with social media, the government seems to be taking steps to do the same. We're surprised they waited this long! According to

We all know by now that social networks aren't a passing fad. They're no longer used solely by early adopters, young adults, or tech enthusiasts - social networks are now

Recently, there have been a few conflicting reports about the current popularity of social networks here in the U.S. On one hand, you have reports that point toward the growth

Employers all around the world are wrestling with whether employees should be able to access Facebook and Twitter at work - but some businesses are explicitly requiring that job applicants

I'm here at the Web 2.0 Summit 2007 in San Francisco, the third year I've been to the conference. Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle started out with an overview of

Late last night Marshall Kirkpatrick published an epic post entitled Fail: Social News on World Events, Like Cuba. It is a great analysis of how web 2.0 news services covered

As part of the lead-up to our inaugural event this Thursday 15th October, The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, we're pleased to announce our list of the top 100 Real-Time Web

Today Alltop, an aggregator of RSS feeds, launched. It's a very similar product to one of my daily refreshes, OriginalSignal. Only Alltop covers a much broader range of topics, 40

Howard Lindzon, a hedge fund trader who created the high-profile short video show Wallstrip and then sold it to CBS, today launched a new fund to invest in social applications.

A new study by Anderson Analytics looks into the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn with a goal of providing marketers with information