Without a doubt, the hottest news of the moment is yesterday’s launch of Facebook Connect and rival service, Google Friend Connect. The ensuing brouhaha is easily understood — these guys are changing the shape of …

Amy Gahran, E-Media Tidbits editor at PoynterOnline has spotted a few old skool reporters who’ve taken to blogging in response to their recent axing by Gannett, the largest US newspaper publisher and owner of USA …

In unrelated stories, we hear that YouTube and roll-your-own social network site Ning will be imposing restrictions the type of content that can be uploaded by users.
YouTube will now apply a stricter standard for mature …

BusinessWeek reporter Jon Fine in his blog Fine On Media has published an excerpt from an interview with veteran journalist Michael Wolff in which Wolff says MySpace will go the way of AOL, adding: “…if …

A year after the Beacon privacy debacle which left its execs totally feeling the *facepalm*, Facebook has begun its publicity push for Facebook Connect, announced in May.
Seen as the next iteration of the Facebook platform, …

The terror attacks in Mumbai shocked the world at large on more than one level. The violence, injury and loss of human life which we brace ourselves for every time something like this happens somewhere …

Today seems to be all about Twitter. In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, news of which spread by Twitter well before the mainstream media started their coverage, Michael Arrington at TechCrunch argues …

Technorati has joined the long list of tech companies tightening their belts in anticipation of a long hard year ahead. The company’s laid off six staff and implemented pay cuts across the board, as CEO …

Hot on the heels of InApps, LinkedIn has announced a new search platform featuring a whack of new features including customization and saved searches. The social network’s senior product manager Esteban Kozak blogged the new …

Another scoop over the weekend for Kara Swisher at AllThingsDigital, who breaks the news that yes, Facebook and Twitter had been in serious acquisition talks for about a month and no, nothing’s going to come …