15 Years of Wired - Proto Social Network 'The Well' Runneth Over
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Way before social networking was all the rage, The Well started as a dialup BBS in 1985. Its founders look back, with audio interviews and transcripts.
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Social-networking sites are using up such huge amounts of bandwidth that ISPs, universities, and businesses struggle to keep pace.
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It's long been time for the instant-messaging walls to come down, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper.  But that's not likely anytime soon.
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Why does Microsoft think Facebook is worth $15bn? Here are 15 possible reasons....
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The college students' favorite website begins to conquer social networking's final frontier: grownups
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Comment is free: Indra Adnan: Social networking has turned relationships that were easy to distinguish into one amorphous web.
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A new study says the big social networking sites are splitting up along familiar lines.
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Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube, and Facebook account for huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption.
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The online application vendor has ported its productivity tools to the social networking site.
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Seven Two year itch poke Shhh! Can you hear a hiss? That's the sound of naughty facts deflating the social networking balloon a tad.â¦
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Blog: Travel search site SideStep acquieres travel social network TripUp
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Google and Earthlink tried, and failed, disappearing in a sea of bureaucratic red tape. Now a startup hopes to persuade San Franciscans to voluntarily put radio repeaters on their rooftops. Good luck with that.
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Over the last week, I've been writing about the disconnect between flow and rank. Paradoxically, sites that are ranked high don't always deliver a lot of hits when they link to you. On the flipside, there are some sites that are rarely on Top 100 lists, or talked about very much, that deliver substantial flow. Two of them stand out, one a veteran site, and the other a relative newcomer. 1. Daring Fireball is a thoughtful blog written by John Gruber that focuses on the Macintosh. Since I've returned to the Mac in 2005, and have been writing more about Mac issues, I've started getting links from this site, and when I do, they usually send between 1000 and 2000 readers my way. And they're generally interesting people with useful information and ideas. I follow Gruber on Twitter and have learned that he is a Phillies fan and therefore disappointed this year. His posts are interesting there too, and irreverent, which I like of course.  2. A Digg-like memetracker, news.ycombinator.com is in the same league as TechMeme, about 1000 hits for a highly ranked piece. I don't know much about the site, I'm not a regular reader, and I don't know much about the people who visit from this site.
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Nearly one-fourth of companies are now using Web 2.0-social networking software in some form.
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The social networking site -- once the exclusive domain of students and
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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It looks like the social-networking world has moved on from Google's yet-to-launch developer initiative, but top engineers and partners say give it time.