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Can you believe that using social networking sites at work can increase your workplace productivity? A new study just published by Australian scientists found that taking time to visit websites

According to a new report from eMarketer, paid advertising on social networks in the US will drop 3% in 2009. In 2008, advertisers spent $1.175 billion on ads on social

Even though baby boomers make up more than one quarter of all US Internet users, and even though the majority of this group spends over five hour per week online,

The title of this week's poll is taken straight from Matthew Ingram's post about USA Today's re-design. The new-look USA Today incorporates many of the social networking features that have

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

For the past two days, AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight has been attending the Search Marketing Expo: Social Media conference in New York City. He's been live blogging every session from

Google News released its own official Facebook app today. Users can view the feeds of major topics by default and keyword searches for news in a full canvas page. News

It's no secret that the Associated Press and Google News aren't exactly getting along right now. According to the AP, Google News and other content aggregators often come too close

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/CoRank_Relaunches_Create_Your_Own_Digg'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; When CoRank launched in March it was a social news ranking site (like Digg) that filtered news based on your

Socialmedian, a social news site designed to allow users to group around news networks, has been acquired by the German social network XING, a major international player with more than