Not Just Kid Stuff: Social Nets Struggle and Thrive in 2007
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Social networking sites drew security concerns along with new audiences and investments from major tech players.
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For business or pleasure? Reg Technology Panel Over the past two or three years, zanily named social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr and Twitter seem to have come from nowhere to wheedle their way into just about every aspect of online life, both in business and pleasure. Such facilities share a handful of simple, but powerful core features: each will enable information sharing of some form, will have some kind of community orientation and will be constructed in a way that several of the blighters can be merged (or should I say, âmashed upâ) into clever, multifaceted concoctions of collaborative capability.â¦
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MIT researchers used conference badges to collect data on people's interactions and visualize the social network.
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Web 2.0 technology, including social networking, is being employed to enable people to make family connections and document them online into massive, growing and shared databases.
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A new study says the big social networking sites are splitting up along familiar lines.
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Graceful breakup announcements, photogenic small animals, outrageous slurs: a look back at 2007.
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The social networking site -- once the exclusive domain of students and
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Social networking sites have changed the game for political candidates.
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Social networking shows no sign of slowing. In April, major networking sites MySpace and Facebook reached 67 million and 38 million unique visitors, respectively. &quot;Increasingly, people seem to want to communicate with one another openly and in public, with other people able to participate,&quot; says Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter.com. USA TODAY&#39;s Mike Snider looks at several notable innovations in interaction.
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The social networking site lost out to MySpace and Facebook in the U.S., but it's found a new life across the Pacific
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Regular columnist Bill Thompson takes a look at the future of social networking sites.
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Think you know advertising? Think again. The social web is challenging all conventions, from who creates the content to how we define media.
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Increasing use of e-mail, web apps and online networking might minimize the need for living physically close to our workplaces and social circles.  However, studies suggests that far from removing distance barriers, technology actually reinforces the value of proximity and face time.
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The web as your auld grannie might have wished it
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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A neighbourhood watch for the digital age, utilising the power of social networking is proposed.
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Forget matchmaking. Researchers should use social networks to land matching funds. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.