Over 1 million purchases in just 28 days places the iPad as Apple’s most successful product launch ever. No wonder Rupert Murdoch wants some of that business all to himself.

It’s been over a week since the release of both Twitter’s @Anywhere and Facebook’s “Like” button. Both promised to change the way people interact with one another and with the issues and brands they feel most strongly about. But only one appears to be living up to the hype.

While its still working out a few post-release kinks in functionality, Twitter’s @anywhere feature is slowly trying to find its place through its “for the tweeters, by the tweeters” approach.

The growing number of buzz-measurement firms out there, if they are good at anything, provide us with lovely graphs that capture the zeitgeist of human expression as history is happening. Or, at least what the …

Mike Schroepfer at Facebook has blogged the reasoning behind the social network becoming a member of the OpenID Foundation, a move that’s surprised some because, as Adam Ostrow at Mashable points out, until now, Facebook …

Nick Bilton, design integration editor and user interface specialist at The New York Times and The Times Research & Development Lab, thinks he’s hit upon a business model for Twitter. Writing for O’Reilly Radar, Bilton …

The New York Times carries a fascinating look at the social media campaign that began with a conversation between the President-elect and Marc Andreessen and ended as the unstoppable force that carried Barack Obama to …