With potential shoppers browsing for tips on the hottest new styles, online clothing retailers are actively trying to boost their social media followers and, naturally, sales. Which online retailers are making the most use of …

We may very well look back on yesterday’s Facebook privacy climb-down as a turning point in the very nature and function of social networks. Bowing to public pressure, the social networking heavyweight will introduce in the coming days new privacy guidelines that could very well lead to a whole lot less sharing of our private photos, videos, status updates and favorite links. And yet for such a landmark policy change, nobody seems to be happy with the changes.

It was halfway through a conference presentation this week by Facebook that is dawned on me just how powerful the social network had become, just how big its own plans are and just how much it now has to lose.

Online fashion retailer ASOS is one of the most social savvy of brands. It has over 230,000 followers combined signed up to its Facebook, Bebo and MySpace pages, and nearly 30,000 more tuning in regularly …

The Twitter advertizing platform isn’t even live yet and the UK’s advertizing standards watchdog already wants tighter controls. The same goes for Facebook.

Facebook got its start at Harvard University and MySpace has cultivated its image as a tool for aspiring rock stars. No wonder the image of the social networker has tended to be younger than the …

After less than 10 months on the job, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta has resigned, leaving the Rupert Murdoch-owned social network once again headless.
MySpace is already in a heap of trouble.

Social Media continues to exert its influence in the political world. The number of MPs with a major Twitter habit, sometimes Tweeting from inside the chamber, was evident last night as the results of the House …

AOL’s $850 million social network Bebo entered the lifestreaming space yesterday with the launch of a raft of new features focused on pulling in all aspects of users’ friends’ activity online even if they aren’t …

Just a week after Google launched its Social Bar, Facebook has launched a social widget for Facebook Connect, called the Comments Box. Ray C. He announced the launch on the Facebook blog, saying:
“The Comments Box …