Google, Yahoo, and News Corp's MySpace announced on Tuesday that they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kickstarted last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on social networking sites.
Google has unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming.
Developers of social networking sites are considering sharing blacklists of annoying and 'spammy' applications with each other in an effort to prevent users from switching off Web 2.0 technology.
Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still wary -- and for good reason
There is speculation that a big name prospective buyer is looking to acquire business social network LinkedIn, after its co-founder and chairman said that he would be open to an offer.
There are plenty of popular strategies for reducing enterprise storage usage, but up until now I've never heard the usage of Facebook or instant messaging listed amongst them -- but there's a first time for everything.
By allowing people both in and outside of companies to connect with each other, and share information over the network, the pace of business operations will escalate.
Australian business news aggregator Plugger.com.au will re-brand as 'Wotnews.com.au' following a licensing and investment deal with high-profile Wotif.com founder and local multi-millionaire Graeme Wood.
Banks are under a great deal of pressure to keep their systems watertight but sometimes they implement security policies that make no sense and create unnecessary inconveniences for their customers.
StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?
Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.
While they present a wonderful opportunity to meet people with similar interests, sites like MySpace, Facebook, and even LinkedIn can also cause trouble.
Is the art of blogging dying a natural death? Venture capitalist David Hornik warns that the blogging world is getting caught in its own trap.
This week, Buzz takes on pro athletes and PANKs in evaluating the worst of the social network landscape.
Open source is nothing to be afraid of, according to Mozilla's chief executive officer.
Tim Berners-Lee, considered to be the father of the Web, speaks with scientists and Silicon Valley executives at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., about where he sees the Internet going in the next five years.
At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about devising the infrastructure to support the social network's hypergrowth.
IBM last week launched a public beta of its Lotus Notes and Domino 8 e-mail and collaboration software.
If you're already hooked on the Internet, or you want to be, iLife '06 gives you the tools you'll need in one convenient package.
Free voice calls and voicemail, built-in Web searches, and drag-and-drop photo sharing make Yahoo's new instant messenger a fun, powerful IM tool.
With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.
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