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WordPress parent company Automattic got good blog-press today with the hire-acquire of social networking plug-in suite BuddyPress, further indication that the blogging company is preparing to blur the lines in

According to Forrester Research, there will be "strong demand" for web 2.0 tools in the enterprise in 2008. Even though 42% of enterprises say adding web 2.0 tools is not

For awhile we've been pushing the idea of Facebook evolving to support business social networking alongside the "social" social networking. But in order for that to work, the site needs

I recently interviewed del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, who is now with Yahoo after the popular social bookmarking service was acquired last December. Joshua was recently named as top innovator of

A recent study at the University of Texas shows that you might not know your online friends quite as well as you think you do. The study, which utilized a

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

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Study_Shows_that_Online_Creativity_and_E_learning_Popular_with_Kids'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; A new study released today by the National School Boards Association shows that 96 percent of students with online access

The WSJ is reporting that US Social Networking site Facebook is in serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo, for an amount that may be as high as $1 billion.

The third session of the day dealt with rich media and mashups. These companies all had something to do with images, music, or movies in some way. Below are summaries

Our second daily Comments Competition winner is theharmonyguy, for an insightful explanation of Googler Kevin Marks' "Social Cloud" theory. Congratulations theharmonyguy, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition