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A one year follow up on a study of social media adoption at 500 of the fastest growing companies in the US has found that familiarity with and use of

Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now,

According to a rather speculative report by research firm ABI Research, location-based social networks like Brightkite, GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt could reach revenues as high as $3.3 billion by 2013.

The popular social bookmarking service Del.icio.us launched a complete redesign of its service today. Ever since it was bought by Yahoo in 2005, the company added very few new features

iLink, a social network analytics technology from SRI International has recently been integrated into three online communities used by the military: Platoon Leader, Company Command, and the Family Readiness Group.

What are the number one problems facing today's social networks? According to the young developer Vladislav Chernyshov they are: privacy issues, distraction and time-wasting, quantity over quality, ads, and lack

Rareshare is a social network for people coping with rare diseases like adrenomyeloneuropathy or erythromelalgia. Rareshare was created by David Isserman, in cooperation with Nutra Pharma. Rareshare currently features communities

There are several different social media message-sending apps out there, but arguably, HelloTxt is one of the most well-known and most often utilized thanks to its support for a wide

According to a post on the Facebook blog, Facebook will add the ability to comment on items in the Mini-Feed today, making it even more similar to Friendfeed. Within the

Last month a new travel social network called Tripwolf launched into private beta. The site offers a variety of content, including both professional editorial and user-generated reviews of destinations as