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Last Friday was a hot day in Sebastopol, California. Eran Hammer-Lahav rolled into town hours after finding out that there was a security hole in his pet project for the

Google has announced that the company now offers a secure way for third party websites to access any user's list of friends, with their permission, and based on a proposed

You can log in to comment here on ReadWriteWeb with an OpenID, via Facebook Connect or through various other methods. Imagine if you could make "friend" connections with other commenters

Two days into the new Presidential administration, Barack Obama issued a memo calling on the still unfilled new office of Chief Technology Officer to make a list of recommendations for

Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls

Do you think that open standards, data portability and questions of online identity are important? We do; we think these issues are the foundation upon which many of the most

Just about half a year ago, Google announced a limited beta of Friend Connect, which allows site owners to display OpenSocial based gadgets on their sites and site visitors to

Wesabe and the UK Telegraph Think You Might digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Would_You_Manage_Your_Money_Through_The_Newspaper/';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';Online money management service Wesabe and the UK newspaper giant The Telegraph have entered a partnership

MySpace launched "Profile version 2.0" late last night and a number of the changes are quite significant. The two biggest in our minds are the ability to set different privacy

Guess which US state has Flickr users most likely to post their photos with privacy restrictions turned on? Utah. Think you can guess relative emphasis put on privacy by Flickr