Mainstream media and specialist blogs alike are picking up on this nugget from neuroscientist Lady Greenfield, who suggests that the use of social networks can negatively influence the connections in one’s brain, resulting in “short …

No doubt you’ve seen or even contributed to the 25 Things meme that has swept through Facebook of late, prompting old school denizens of the interwebs to heave le sigh and compare it to the …

Yesterday saw the launch of Digital Britain, the UK government’s plan “to secure Britain’s place at the forefront of the global digital economy”.
The ever outspoken Andrew Orlowski at The Register is decidedly unimpressed with what …

Just a year after acquiring the social network for $850 million, AOL is now considering a sale, according to Mike Butcher writing for TechCrunch.
“AOL is indeed quietly pondering a sale after watching Bebo perform much …

LinkedIn has taken further strides to embed itself in the enterprise social networking space with the introduction of a plugin for IBM’s Lotus Notes application. Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch reports:
“For users who spend much of …

Back in November 2008, we brought you news of BreakingNewsOn, a Twitter-based news alert service known for breaking news before mainstream channels (it famously once broke news of a bus crash even before the emergency …

Xing, the social network for professionals that has quite a lot of traction in Europe, has announced its purchase of socialMedian, a social news aggregator startup which came out of private beta just a few …

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 …

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 …

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, …