social networking
RSS social networkingMurdoch: Newspapers must learn to love the iPod
News The company headed by the billionaire, News Corp, has its eye on internet acquisitions and bought social networking site MySpace.com, while Sky has been one of the first UK broadcasters to embrace... [14 Mar 2006]
Apple's iTunes pips Google's growth
News Social-networking sites MySpace, Facebook and Memegen.net also saw impressive year-over-year growth, increasing 752 per cent, 530 per cent and 446 per cent, respectively, according to the... [21 Dec 2005]
Microsoft tests Messenger update
News The company also demonstrated evolutions of Live Messenger that would allow it to act as a means of managing contact information and as a hub for social networking, though those features are not part of... [13 Dec 2005]
Council IT staff 'don't respect' their chief execs
News Only 43 per cent of the 150 local government IT professionals polled by networking community Public Sector Forums said they respected their chief executive. The IT staff in the survey also cited directors of finance and... [01 Nov 2005]
eBay-Skype: The blogosphere speaks
News Over at TMCnet, Greg Galatzine was sceptical about the merits of the deal but he related the argument a former colleague made to him: "He reminded me that '.eBay also owns 25 per cent of craigslist; imagine the... [13 Sep 2005]
Yahoo! told to Flickr right off
News s side as it seeks to grow its photo and social-networking community in the face of fierce competition. a social network that combines a blogging tool, instant messaging, photo storage... [30 Aug 2005]
Is penetration testing breaking Herts on the internet?
News NetSec, recently acquired by MCI, will run testing on all the council's websites, systems and networking resources as well as applications developed in-house and by external third parties. One involves an automated... [26 May 2005]
Yahoo! snaps up photo site Flickr
News Both the 360 move and the acquisition of Flickr and parent company Ludicorp Research & Development come as social networking and blogging draw increased interest from rivals. Google, meanwhile, owns web... [21 Mar 2005]
LinkedIn to charge for job listings
News Social networking site LinkedIn will soon begin charging employers $95 per job listing, nudging social networking into the uncertain terrain of paid services.... [01 Mar 2005]
Gmail grows up (a bit)
News To date, Google has been relying on social networking to roll out Gmail, initially inviting some 2,000 people who were then able to invite a limited number of others themselves. Google is giving more... [21 Feb 2005]
Curse of the blog strikes Google employee
News Friendster, known for breaking new ground in online social networking and promoting self-expression among peers, fired one of its employees in August over her Troutgirl blog. Mark Jen, a blogger whose... [09 Feb 2005]
Desktop Linux makes progress Down Under
News Earlier this month, Novell - the parent company of SuSE Linux - said its Open Enterprise Server (OES), which combines open source and commercial networking platforms, will begin shipping in February 2005. [29 Oct 2004]
Social networking site Friendster sacks employee over blog
News Friendster, known for breaking new ground in online social networking and promoting self-expression among peers, fired one of its employees on Monday for her personal web log, or online diary. Wendy... [01 Sep 2004]
Esther Dyson: Social networks - the good and the bad
Comment But the social networking tool I'm dreaming of would automatically create a record of the introduction I have made so that someday, I could search on either of those two names and a process such as... [15 Jul 2004]
Google sued over alleged code theft
News A Silicon Valley start-up has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming an engineer employed at the search giant stole software code to create the popular online social networking service Orkut.com. The... [01 Jul 2004]
