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Many small and medium sized businesses may have an interest in maintaining a presence on social networks, but don't the time, money, or resources to do so. For them, a

According to web measurement firm Hitwise, MySpace commands 73.82% of all social networking traffic. The data comes from Hitwise's special social networking category, which tracks US traffic 57 leading social

Last November we asked you, "In 6 months time, will you have more business contacts in Facebook than LinkedIn?" 62% of you said LinkedIn, and only about a quarter chose

Over the weekend, a chart from the Flowing Data blog "revealed" that Facebook applications, on the whole, are silly. Much of the discussion that followed was of the patronizing "see,

Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side: this week we took a look at our readers' favorite web apps,

You may have heard of Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of Javascript, but are you using it to

A report on BBC's technology program, Click, has exposed yet another security flaw in Facebook - one that could comprise users' privacy. This particular hack involves using a Facebook application

A study that will appear in tomorrow's New Scientist magazine found that social media sites, blogs, and instant messaging services were better at connecting people and providing warnings during emergencies

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

Identified Hits is a new Facebook ad network that is taking a page from the Beacon play book. Beacon, you'll remember, is Facebook's endorsement-based ad service that uses user actions