Social Networking
Social Aggregation continues with IM
Imo.im is an instant message social aggregator that turns your social network friends (Facebook, Myspace) into IM friends. This will allow instant messaging to...
Monster.com pays $61 million to join social networking craze
Monster has plunged into social networking like fellow bellwether Cisco (Tribe.net and Five Across social acquisitions). Affinity labs was purchased for $61 million cash...
Social Network Rankings according to TC
An awesome spreadsheet by TechCrunch based on an inquiry to Comscore regarding data for social networks from October 2006 to October 2007 and percentage...
opensocial getting Myspace onboard
Opensocial has been getting big traffic since Google's announcement into the social arena. Myspace along with numerous other social heavy weights have thrown their...
Google opensocial
Google OpenSocial
Opensocial - You got to love Google. The company has become a poster child web startup soaring past 700 bucks a share and...
Why social networking sites are so popular
Why social networking sites are so popular is summarized in two words “targeting” and “verticals”. Social networks offer online networking that rivals real world...
Google’s “secret sauce” to combat Facebook
Facesoft or Microbook (sorry couldn't help myself) is about to get a heavy dose of social networking competition from Google according to a great...
The social graph and advertising
It's not "what you know" but "who you know". The old cliche' is being modified a bit by Facebook's social graph concept. The social...
Microsoft buys 1.6 percent stake in Facebook
Microsoft buys Facebook stake for $240 Million which is an incredibly expensive 1.6% interest in the hottest web property on the market. The $240...
Social Networking Advertising doubles
Social Networking is a blank advertising canvas in 2008 and has the Titans of the Internet (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) scrambling for control…or dare...