Google's new social network, Google+, is shaping up to be a hit for the search engine giant.
It's official. After months of developers wondering when and if Facebook's annual developers conference would take place, the world's largest social network finally set the date.
Your Facebook friends aren't the only ones reading those wall posts.
Facebook unleashed a new commenting system last week that promises to help online publications clean up their commenting cesspools, while simultaneously extending Facebook's tentacles further into the web outside its walls.
The last couple of weeks have been busy ones for news about Facebook. "The Social Network" movie hit theaters, CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million on Oprah and, if rumors are correct, the world's biggest social-networking site will be partnering with online phone service Skype to help you chat with your Facebook friends through the site.
Facebook's latest modifications make it pretty clear that the company is eager to spread its brand even further across the Web -- and that's left some privacy advocates a little freaked out as they look at the vast amount of personal information that Facebook has on hand.
Earning badges and climbing a ladder of "levels" used to be the respective domains of Boy Scouts and devoted video gamers. No more: It's officially the hottest craze in social-media marketing to make your customers think they're playing a game.
AT&T is officially opening up its recommendation service, Buzz.com, to the public.
The social networking site turns to making money by targeting its 22-million users with featured ads.
You're going to be seeing search ads on Twitter after all.
Do you remember Bebo? AOL bought the hot social networking Web site for $850 million in 2008. This week, the company threw in the towel -- Bebo will either be sold or shut down in 2010, according to an internal memo.
Twitter this week endured a number of "phishing" attacks, in which some users unwittingly gave out their passwords to malicious sites. Haven't we all learned to keep our passwords to ourselves, you ask? Perhaps. But the truth is we're all vulnerable to social engineering, and two major Web trends are creating further confusion for new Internet users.
Our approach to privacy evolved rapidly in 2009, as a growing array of online services propounded the benefits of digital sharing.
In the ongoing saga of paid content on the Web, Rupert Murdoch is once again threatening to pull his Web sites from Google's search results.
One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.
One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.
The U.S. dollar has taken a beating in the past few months even as stocks have soared and investors have come to expect an economic recovery sooner rather than later.
The market rally keeps chugging along. And even though some are concerned that stocks have moved up too quickly from their March lows, there is one undeniably healthy thing about this surge: Investors are not nearly as afraid about the economy as they were a few months ago.
Thrift is the new black. Cheap is chic. Well, it is for now at least.
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