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When MySpace first launched, one of its main draws was the music offered by independent artists on the

Hype Machine, the much-loved MP3 blog aggregator service, has long been the place to go to find great

There was a lot of chatter over the weekend about folk punk rocker Billy Bragg's New York Times

Groundbreaking social network LiveJournal is no longer allowing new users to sign up for Basic level accounts, which

Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. This week includes social

The Internet has made our personal lives public. Thanks to social networks, the kind of public scrutiny that

In our post Social Networks Will Be Tomorrow's iTunes, Sarah Perez reported on new research indicating that social

We all know by now that social networks aren't a passing fad. They're no longer used solely by

Here's another word to add to your lexicon: "Socialprise." It's meaning is somewhat obvious: social tools + enterprise

HiveLive, a B2B social software platform provider, brings the social web to businesses by providing them with customizable

Shyftr, which stands for "Share Your Feeds Together," is a new online feed reader that combines RSS with

Charlene Li gave the opening keynote at today's Graphing Social Patterns conference. The keynote was titled "The Future

Burlington, MA-based Mzinga, which provides social networking, community, and e-learning solutions for the enterprise, is today announcing that

The social networking market and ecosystem are in major flux and the early trailblazer LiveJournal announced today the

Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of

A company called WorkLight, Inc. is hoping to bridge the gap between the ease-of-use of the social applications

Last week we wrote about a boycott of online auction site eBay that was organized by sellers angry

According to yesterday's article in the Guardian, the three largest social networks in the U.K., MySpace, Facebook, and

WhyGoSolo, a completely self-funded startup from Washington D.C., wants to help you transition your online relationships and friendships

Social ads have social consequences. Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of VC firm First Round Capital, recently found