A team of mobile app developers offended by Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg dissing HTML5 have created a Facebook app that they say works better than native versions because of the HTML5 coding.
Google Plus got a grand total of 24 new features in an update released today, along with new mobile app versions for both Android and iOS devices.
So much for being "creative": It remains the most overused LinkedIn profile term for the second year in a row among U.S.-based professionals as well as those worldwide.
Oprah Winfrey took to Twitter yesterday to endorse one of what she calls her favorite things, the Microsoft Surface tablet. The kicker? She made the post from her iPad.
IBM issued a report today that found while most companies are accelerating their social media plans, many are struggling to figure out what it all means.
As more hotel guests use social media to express their feedback with a hotel after a stay instead of filling out a customer comment card, many hotels need to mine data from social networks to see how they’re doing. In this video news report from the IDG News Service, we get to meet a company that can help the hospitality industry get that data.
Cisco has named a former Symantec executive to head its struggling collaboration group, which saw three different leaders in less than a year.
President Obama voted in person in Chicago yesterday but also showed up later in day virtually on social news aggregation site Reddit to urge stragglers to get to the polls and perform their civic duty.
Most people make friends with others online who have common interests, but it's rare for people's interests to rub off on others, according to new research out of Harvard University based on an examination of four years’ worth of Facebook data.
Google has started pushing its Google+ social networking service further into Gmail with new features that let users add to their circles directly from their email accounts.
Facebook users have been bombarded with explicit and violent images in the latest malware campaign aimed at the giant social networking site, a security researcher said.
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network <a href="http://diasporafoundation.org/">Diaspora</a>, has died in San Francisco.
Two professors from Wellesley College’s Department of Computer science have been awarded a nearly half million dollar National Science Foundation grant to build an application that gauges the trustworthiness of information shared on social networks, and in particular Twitter.
Google is now shaping its Google+ social network for commerce.
Much has changed since we examined the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/060710-tech-argument-facebook-twitter.html">ongoing war</a> between Facebook and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/052610-twitter-quiz.html">Twitter</a> in the spring of 2010. The stakes are higher, the competition has increased, and we see LinkedIn and Google roaring into the social networking arena like never before.