Social network sites, such as Facebook, pose risks to the information security of businesses and other organisations, says a Johannesburg technology law expert.

With diners foregoing fancy restaurants and hunkering down in their kitchens, Gourmet magazine has launched an online social network for home entertainers.

Google has or is working on pretty much all of the main ingredients for a really great social network. The problem (in my opinion) is that they are scattered and not integrated as well as they could be. Do you particiapte in any of Google’s social projects? Tell us which ones . Gmail A while [...]

LONDON - Yahoo! has shelved Mash, its fledgling social network service touted as a potential rival to Facebook.

Loop’d Network, an online network for action sports like surfing and snowboarding, has secured an $800,000 in an undisclosed round of funding from investor Tech Coast Angels and existing private investors. Loop’d, which currently has 500,000 members, says it will use the new funds to development an ecommerce and social merchandising strategy. Loop’d’s platform is [...]

U.S. Member Firm of Global 6 Accounting Organizations Launches Enterprise-Wide Social Network to Increase Engagement and Relationships Among Employees

As we highlighted last week, social gaming is on the rise . A big reason for this is because playing video games is often a social activity that relies on teamwork, collaboration, and a shared experience. There are several big companies that create games for existing social networks, like Zynga and Playfish . That’s not [...]

Gli utenti italiani scelgono MySpace come spazio dell’espressione personale e dei contenuti più creativi del web. È quanto conferma l’indagine quali-quantitativa condotta da Aegis Media Expert sul vissuto dei social network in Italia.

A seemingly trivial tweak to the social messaging website’s defaults has users up in arms - and threatens its expansion What looks like an innocuous note on the Twitter blog last night has instead touched off a firestorm. If you can touch off a firestorm on a social network. Anyway. The note said : We’ve [...]

According to eMarketer’s latest research , US social network ad spending will fall 3% in 2009. If it happens, it’ll be a big change from previous couple of years; in 2007., social network ad spending grew 129% in 2007, and in 2008, it grew 33%. Not all social networks will be equally hit, claims eMarketer. [...]

Type Subsidiary
Founded 2003
Headquarters Beverly Hills, California
Key people Tom Anderson, President
Owen Van Natta, CEO
Owner Fox Interactive Media
Employees 1600
Slogan A Place for Friends
Website MySpace.com
Type of site Social network service
Advertising Google, AdSense
Registration Required
Available in 15 languages
Launched August 2003
Current status Active
MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—-Today, at the Sage Insights user conference, MyWay Interactive announced the availability of Reach, a social network for sales professionals and small business owners.

NAS Interactive, a division of NAS Recruitment Communications, announced today the launch of a new training offering for recruitment professionals: Recruiter’s Social Networking Boot Camp. The announcement came on the heels of a successful webinar NAS Interactive co-hosted with popular social network LinkedIn, “Using Social Media as Part of your Talent Sourcing Strategy.”

Internet activism (also known as e-activism, electronic advocacy, cyberactivism, e-campaigning and online organizing) is the use of communication technologies such as e-mail, web sites, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster communications by citizen movements and deliver a message to a large audience. These Internet technologies are [...]

Title: ELCA Book of Faith Initiative Embraces Online Social Network ELCA NEWS SERVICE >May 8, 2009 ELCA Book of Faith Initiative Embraces Online Social Network 09-110-FI CHICAGO (ELCA) — Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are reading and discussing the Bible as part of the church’s Book of Faith initiative.