A new study done by the University of Minnesota has concluded that social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace help develop critical creative, technological and communication skills. In fact, researchers have referred to social networks as being ‘educational’ in nature.
According to Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher from the University’s College of Education and […]

Sta.rtUp.biz, a new social networking website, has all the usual features that are sported by the likes of Facebook and MySpace, such as members’ photographs and detailed profiles. But what is new about the venture is its service that offers small business owners an online platform where they can socialise and network with other fellow […]

LinkedIn, a networking website for business-oriented people and professionals, claims that it is already profitable. To add to that, it has received a fresh round of funding. The money will be used for making acquisitions and expanding its overseas operations.

For a website, it could hardly appear less exciting. Its pages are loaded with text - much of it a flat blue. There are few photographs and there are absolutely no videos on it. It is LinkedIn, the social network platform for professionals.
The website is not very attractive in terms of design. Unlike MySpace and […]

MySpace boasts an American audience of close to 73 million. (Facebook counts 36 million). According to comScore, worldwide, Facebook tied the former, averaging almost 115 million users for each website for the first time in April. Also, users spend hours on the websites, making them a vital platform for advertisers.
Because MySpace still commands a […]

A mobile phone service which lets users track their friends and family members has been launched in the UK. You can also choose to add a Sniff search application to your Facebook profile.
Brian Levin, the Useful Networks chief executive, stated the service could be utilised only by those people who had first signed up, to […]

Oxford graduate David Langer started Groupspaces after he became frustrated with the lack of quality online tools for supporting university clubs. His web site, founded with a fellow graduate, aims at making life simpler for club owners. The site handles invites to events, manages lists of members and meshes with online social networks like Facebook
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Mr. […]

According to research firm ComScore Media Metrix, tracking Internet traffic, MySpace’s audience has increased just slightly over the past year, from 105 million in April 2007 to 115.7 million in April 2008. On the other hand, Facebook has fast surged ahead, almost doubling its unique visitors’ base. News Corp. is the owner of MySpace that […]

Social networks continue to flourish. As the networking landscape expands and diversifies, some of these firms are looking around for all possible ways to monetise their sizable audiences.
According to the research firm eMarketer, the growth in ad spending on social networks worldwide would total close to $2 billion this year, slightly down from the firm’s […]

MySpace has opted for an integration of Google Gears into its own messaging system. What this will make possible is a back up of all messages to each individual user’s local machine apart from quick search as well as sorting. This is possibly the largest ever ‘third party’ implementation of Google Gears.
Three basic functions, available […]

MySpace has chosen to integrate Google Gears into its own messaging system that will back up all messages to an individual user’s local machine and result in very fast search as well as sorting. This is possibly the largest third party implementation of Google Gears and also the first time the ‘search and sort’ mail […]

The second interactive teen drama from popular social networking site Bebo, Sofia’s Diary, has been reportedly commissioned for a second series. The current series, which runs each day on the AOL-owned web site, is also shown on Five’s female-oriented digital television channel Fiver.

With the launch of its community site, Adobe has stepped into online document sharing. It lets people create, store as well as share their various documents online, apart from allowing them to hold web conferences so that they can discuss changes.
The online document sharing service was unveiled at the same time as the latest, enhanced […]

Barack Obama says he has secured the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election. One of the unique features of his campaign thus far has been its ability to take to social networking web sites, such as Facebook and MySpace.
In fact, according to reports, Mr. Obama’s decision to run was somewhat influenced by the fact […]

A Canadian privacy group has accused social networking website Facebook of violating privacy laws, and has filed a complaint against it.
The institute that follows Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest has drafted more than 20 different breaches of privacy law. According to Clinic director Phillipa Lawson, social networking online is a (fast) growing phenomenon, and […]

The research by Professor David Gauntlett and Lizzie Jackson from the University of Westminster has found that virtual worlds can prove to be valuable platforms where children revise and rehearse what they might actually be doing in real life. They are also a much more ‘engaging and powerful’ alternative in comparison to passive activities like […]

The web site of popular networking site Facebook is set for a makeover. Next month onward the profile pages of Facebook will get a total makeover.
There was an hour long briefing for the media from Facebook to give them a glimpse of changes proposed in the site likely to be made public next month. The […]

If you had been longing for a social media networking feature within your web site, but were always apprehensive about the inherent costs involved, worry no more. Google has created an exclusive platform for integrating a social media marketing aspect into your website as a free service.
More popularly recognised as Friend Connect, which can be […]

Among the world’s most popular social networking sites, MySpace, is to let its users to make their information or data available to other web sites. Its ‘data availability’ project will allow members share their public profile information with Twitter, eBay, Photobucket and Yahoo!. In the past the networking site had ‘locked’ users and guarded member’s […]

Google has denied that there is a brain drain of talent at the company following the departure of its high-profile communications boss to social networking site Facebook. Elliot Schrage’s departure to Facebook as their head of global communications & public affairs is one among a string of senior Google personnel to have left the firm.