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Back in February we reported that Buzzd, a Mobile Web social networking service used at bars, clubs and restaurants, had won a bunch of awards at the MobileMonday Peer Awards.

NewsGator announces user base milestones; Newsgator is something of a quiet revolution these days. It isn't announcing flashy features like Google Reader or Yahoo Pipes, but today it announced that

Portland social mapping startup Platial has acquired old-school favorite Frapper, another social mapping service, it was announced today. If the announcement had been made yesterday it would have warranted inclusion

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/RedHerring_Returns'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; RedHerring magazine relaunched its website yesterday on top of the Blogtronix social networking platform. According to Blogtronix this is version

On Monday, the US Department of Defense announced that a number of social networking and media sites would be blocked on its network, citing bandwidth concerns. "This is a bandwidth

After a two-month pilot, Yahoo's Mixd mobile service has closed down. Mixd first came to light in November last year. It was a group mobile messaging tool for the youth

Universal McCann has released a new report on the impact of social media (such as blogs, social networks, online video) on the media landscape. It surveyed 17,000 Internet users worldwide

We've heard from a couple of reliable sources that social network Bebo is about to announce a developer platform very soon. Apparently it will be a "platform API". The source

Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang was on stage today at CES and he showed a fascinating glimpse into the future of Yahoo. Yang outlined a product strategy that

The next big trend for social networking is the rise of the mobile social network. Gen Y's cell phone addiction has given way to a proliferation of these mobile networks,