Social Media & Networking

Professional networking site LinkedIn says it 's experimenting with a new layout. The redesign has only been rolled out for some users, so I'm not seeing it in my own account yet, but...

In this article: LinkedIn, Cloud computing, Stanford University, California Newspaper Publishers Association, Twitter, Facebook, and San Francisco

Some LinkedIn users will have noticed a change to the navigation and user interface of the LinkedIn.com website, announces a company blog post. The business-focused social network is in...

In this article: LinkedIn and Facebook

...email subject lines to look out for are: ' Myspace Password Reset Confirmation,' ' Myspace office on fire' and ' Myspace was ruined'. Symantec believes there will be another attack on...

In this article: Facebook, MySpace, Symantec, and News Corp

...effort this week by industry players to clean up the ecosystem, even while Facebook has been silent on the issue. MySpace , Zynga and RockYou all took steps to eliminate scams. Which is...

In this article: Facebook, Steroid, MLB, and MySpace

Huddle is available in English, French, German, and Italian. In addition to www.huddle.net, it can be accessed via major social networks including LinkedIn , Ning , XING and Facebook.

In this article: Huddle.net, California, Unicef, Ning, Facebook, LinkedIn, XING, and Panasonic

...portal instead of a social network. Carey : "We're not trying to beat Facebook. We're not trying to beat Twitter. " Disclosure: News Corp. owns Dow Jones , which owns this Web...

In this article: MySpace, News Corp., Google, Rupert Murdoch, Revenue, Google search, and Twitter

...unethically - making money by tricking people into paying for services they don't want - MySpace boss Owen Van Natta has said that such deceptive practices will be banned on the...

In this article: MySpace, Katamari, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Michael Geist, and Twitter

...to? In many of the most popular (and profitable) games built for big social-networking platforms like Facebook and MySpace , players can progress faster in the game by either buying virtual...

In this article: MySpace, CNET News, Facebook, RockYou, Manhattanite, IT Security, TechCrunch, Yelp, and Twitter

...remember my login details. Google and other major online players, including AOL , Facebook , Microsoft Plaxo , MySpace , and Yahoo , are pitching a simpler alternative: A single...

In this article: Google, Plaxo, Facebook, Twitter, DVD, Gmail, Best Buy, Iphone, Yahoo, and Microsoft

...in two steps. Google has been working on this process, dubbed hybrid onboarding, with Facebook and Plaxo in an effort to cut down on the number of passwords people have to use...

In this article: Google, Plaxo, Facebook, Oauth, Gmail, and Yahoo

...a 44-year-old venture capital firm known for investments in such Web startups as Facebook and LinkedIn , announced on Monday the closing of a new $575 million fund and the...

In this article: Greylock, Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley, PayPal, Facebook, Boston, Greylock Partners, and Venture capital

...from Apple to why the Ovi store still isn't available on AT&T 's network. In Chris DeWolfe's new venture, sources say, he 'll attempt to snowball a bunch of social-gaming properties and pit...

In this article: Microsoft, Chicago, Ina Fried, CNET News, Chris DeWolfe, Bing, E mail, and Cloud computing

...of software and Internet-based services have to go? Beyond Binary In Chris DeWolfe's new venture, sources say, he 'll attempt to snowball a bunch of social-gaming properties and pit...

In this article: Iphone, CNET News.com, Android, ARM, PowerVR, Chris DeWolfe, and Imagination Technologies

...sector was. Three months prior, DeWolfe had been ousted from the troubled MySpace and replaced by former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta. Now several well-placed sources have told...

In this article: Chris DeWolfe, MySpace, CNET News, Facebook, Ngmoco, TechCrunch, and Rupert Murdoch

...Chips, Friendster's non-monetary, promotional currency. In a few weeks, Friendster will add Friendster Coins, Friendster's monetary currency, where one US dollar equals 1,000 Friendster...

In this article: Friendster, Southeast Asia, IDG Ventures, DAG Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Benchmark Capital

...in the site's efforts at reinvigorating itself, as well as expanding distribution of MySpace. In fact, MySpace recently bought social music service iLike to expand its distribution...

In this article: MySpace, MSN, Microsoft, Google, News Corp., Bing, MSN Music, Facebook, and Ilike

...news outlet has a story that seems to prove the unthinkable: that onetime social-networking rivals Facebook and MySpace could actually be working on some kind of partnership. Two years...

In this article: Facebook, MySpace, Sheryl Sandberg, CNET News, Manhattanite, IT Security, The Huffington Post, and O'Reilly Media

...acquired this summer. iLike operates social apps on a variety of platforms, including Facebook , and artists using MySpace can now access that data too. "We're giving people things like...

In this article: MySpace, Facebook, CNET News, Ilike, Joint venture, Vevo, Revenue, and IT Security

...inside iLike applications embedded on competing social networking sites such as Facebook , Bebo , Orkut and hi5. They will replace videos that iLike used to get from Google Inc.'s...

In this article: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Ilike, Google Inc, Sony Corp, Universal Music Group, Joint venture, and Orkut

...would reach $1 billion this year. Virtual goods are already producing significant revenue for Facebook , and Facebook has been experimenting with new ways for advertisers, users and...

In this article: Ning, Revenue, Facebook, Birthday cake, Business operations, Donnie Wahlberg, and New Kids on the Block