Social Networking News

Social Networking Gets Spreadsheet Functionality

2008-07-04T16:43:04Z

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Socialtext today announced that it has built upon its wiki foundation to launch a broad set of Business Social Software solutions. Two significant product innovations -- Socialtext Dashboard and Socialtext People -- extend the wiki platform for people to gain additional insight by managing their information, conversations and connections.

MySpace shifts to portal, plots web domination

2008-06-16T22:54:41Z

MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson has lots of friends, but it's unlikely he'll be chummy with the folks at Yahoo and AOL after announcing that MySpace is trying to conquer the internet by reconfiguring itself as a web portal.

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2008-06-14T16:24:51Z

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2008-06-14T16:23:11Z

CEO Facebooks Company

2008-06-14T16:21:36Z

Progressive software company CEO urges employees to use Facebook during working hours.

CEO Facebooks Company

2008-06-14T16:19:48Z

Progressive software company CEO urges employees to use Facebook during working hours.

Youniverse Matches Lovers Based on Picture Quizzes

2008-06-05T16:07:00Z

Imagini launched its social network last year, helping people find friends by assessing their personality traits using a system it created called VisualDNA. This system asks you a series of questions, and you indicate your answer by choosing one of the provided images.

MTV Buys Twitter

2008-05-29T19:30:48Z

In a shocking move music video industry pioneer MTV snaps up Twitter, the 'Net's fastest growing social network featuring an interesting combination of instant messaging and microblogging.

Details to follow.

Warren Whitlock and the Twitter Handbook

2008-05-26T20:36:53Z

Warren Whitlock. The answer to the question of "Who is Warren Whitlock?" is really "He's the Twitter Man." In the space of a scant few months, Warren Whitlock has come from virtually nowhere to become an expert on something barely no one knows anything about. At least until now. With only around 2 million subscribers, Twitter isn't making any really big waves yet, but it will soon. If Warren Whitlock has anything to say or do about it.

The Fastest Talking Guy in Social Media Tells Us Where All of This Might Be Going

2008-05-22T23:34:51Z

I’m here at day two of the Executing Social Media conference in Pasadena, CA. Blogger, PR stuntman, and social media maven Peter Shankman gave a very energetic keynote on how the social web is changing the way we do business and make money. Peter is CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc. and has recently launched Help A Reporter Out (HARO), a service that helps journalists connect with sources.