The lawyers at United Online-owned Classmates.com are busy; the social networking site is paying up to $9.5 million, along with $1.3 million in legal fees, to settle a class action lawsuit charging that it violated members’ privacy ...

The backlash to Google's social networking feature sheds light on the challenges all technology companies must face when it comes to thinking about privacy, says one researcher.

Buzz, Google's controversial attempt to unseat Facebook as the most mainstream of social activity stream readers, just made some much-needed changes that Facebook could learn from as well. Buzz users now have more granular control ...

There's a lot to like about the Devour smartphone, especially its social networking features, intuitive user interface, and sturdy design, but it also has some shortcomings. ...

I have written below about the incredible power of crowd sourcing, using the reach and scope of social networking on the Internet to solve a complex problem. Here's a play-by-play about a difficult question. It demonstrates how th...

For whatever it’s worth Brightkite actually pioneered the location-based checked-in with social networking service a couple of years ago. Yes, long before Gowalla and Foursquare started to become popular  it  has been offering the s...

Websites looking for a way to promote sex positivity and increase revenue on their website, blog, or social networking site can look no further than Good Vibrations’ new affiliate program.

Bulletproof’s Weekly Web Wrap-Up offers a compilation of key discussions regarding social media’s increasing relevance to business. It’s official; location-based social networking is rapidly going mainstream. In just the last week, ...

Complaining about teachers and spreading rumors about the principal are nothing new. But in the age of social networking sites, the complaints have legs well beyond the life of just whispered gossip. Two cases in the 3rd Circuit, ea...

Complaining about teachers and spreading rumors about the principal are nothing new. But in the age of social networking sites, the complaints have legs well beyond the life of just whispered gossip. Two cases in the 3rd Circuit, ea...

Worldly Developments, creator of the Plancast.com social networking site has released an iPhone app for users of its service. Plancast.com is a social networking service designed to allow users to share information about where they ...

I’ve been building my personal brand for two years. I’ve tried various methods including social media networking, blogging and regular commenting (my resolution was to comment daily on all popular niche blogs!). While all the three ...

In a week that continues to see an expansion of location-based social networking apps, Hot Potato Media has released an update to its Hot Potato Mobile application. Designed for users of the hotpotato.com social networking service, ...

For the past five months, Justin Vincent's Twitter application went largely unnoticed by the social networking and microblogging site, until last week that is, when Tweetminer was randomly suspended by Twitter. Founded in October of...

When MySpace announced earlier this week that they had now established themselves as the number one social networking application on the Android platform and the number three download overall, needless to say, we were a bit shocked....

A new comScore study shows that 17.1 percent of cell phone subscribers visited a social networking site or blog in January 2010, compared with 13.8 percent in October 2009, according to MediaPost.This follows last week's report that...

The New Writing Pedagogy The New Writing Pedagogy Using social networking tools to keep up with student interests. By Angela Pascopella and Will Richardson November 200...

According to BusinessWeek, internet giants Google and Facebook have been sued by a New York-based company called Wireless Ink Corp. The legal challenge is reportedly over a patent relating to software the allows people to interact w...

While there have surely been a lot of departures of talent at MySpace over the last year--including two major shifts in top management--one of the more interesting guessing games of late concerning the social networking company has ...

While there have surely been a lot of departures of talent at MySpace over the last year--including two major shifts in top management--one of the more interesting guessing games of late concerning the social networking company has ...