Social Networking News

MySpace shifts to portal, plots web domination

Jerry Wilson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:54:41 +0000

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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Jerry Wilson — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:24:51 +0000

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Jerry Wilson — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:23:11 +0000

CEO Facebooks Company

Jerry Wilson — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:21:36 +0000

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

CEO Facebooks Company

Jerry Wilson — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:19:48 +0000

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

Youniverse Matches Lovers Based on Picture Quizzes

Jerry Wilson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:07:00 +0000

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

Jerry Wilson — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:30:48 +0000

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

Jerry Wilson — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:36:53 +0000

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

Jerry Wilson — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:34:51 +0000

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.

Google helps the web go social

Jerry Wilson — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:53:35 +0000

Google has joined the drive to make the web more social by introducing tools to enable people to interact with their friends.