Facebook’s gotten a lot of mileage out of suggesting pages to users based on the pages frequented by their friends and others in their extended networks. But starting today, it will tell people who have just joined what pages they …
Facebook added face detection to photos last night, making it faster for people to upload and edit albums.
No, it’s not full-fledged facial recognition that can identify a person, like what Israeli startup Face.com does or what Google Picasa has. …
If there’s an opening for Google in the crowded social networking market already dominated by Facebook, it might be in helping users navigate through their many friend groups, according to a presentation from Paul Adams, the lead for user experience …
Remember all those great spring break trips you took in college with your friends? In addition to the crazy memories, you probably also remember the hassle of trying to coordinate a vacation with a group of people. Looking to make …
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt wouldn’t publicly deny that the company is set to hatch a rival social network to Facebook during a speech today in London, adding fuel to rumors that the search giant may launch a social service …
How did the Apple’s reception snafu affect the launch of its latest iPhone?
ViralHeat, a startup that tracks social media metrics for brands, took a look at more than 2.3 million iPhone-related mentions on Google Buzz, Twitter, Facebook and video-sharing …
ModCloth, an online retailer that specializes in an indie-retro clothing style, has announced a $19.8 million Series B funding round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Floodgate and First Round Capital.
Accel’s Theresia Gouw Ranzetta will join ModCloth’s …
Woot CEO Matt Rutledge posted this doctored photo of himself and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as part of a very funny blog post announcing that Amazon has bought Woot for an undisclosed price. Rutledge says that Woot will continue to …
Facebook has made it easier than it used to be for users to understand what kinds of personal data applications need in order to work. From now on, users will get a single dialog box explaining all of the data …
Online metrics firm Hitwise says to hold off on eulogizing video chat service ChatRoulette.
The firm said the site’s traffic has risen 50 percent in the last five weeks, even as naysayers have criticized the service for the rather explicit …
Sixteen years ago, David Bohnett founded GeoCities, a homepage-hosting website which presaged today’s blogs and social networks. Now his Baroda Ventures is backing Fabulis, a recently launched social network for gay men.
Jason Goldberg, Fabulis’s cofounder and CEO, told me …
Facebook is updating its policies to explicitly allow a handful of third-party search engines to crawl public content.
Before, Facebook banned robots, spiders, scrapers or harvesting bots from automatically collecting data across the social network’s pages, unless their creators had …
Looking to shine through hordes of competition by making taking and sharing webcam photos even easier, an ex-MySpace engineer recently launched Snapp.me as a social photo-sharing platform.
Founder Nick Granado’s unique angle is that his site focuses on people interested …
LivingSocial, one of the two most prominent social buying startups in the United States, has decided to expand to the United Kingdom through organic growth. The company’s opening a London-based version of the site and plans to open to a …
In another move that threatens the health of its developer ecosystem, Twitter has nearly halved the number of times third-party applications can request data from the service.
The information network said it cut the default rate limit, or number of …
There’s no shortage of ambition when you talk to Michael Langer, chief executive of startup StuffBuff. Langer said his big mission to replace existing e-commerce giants like eBay. To do that, the company is taking a more decentralized, social approach …
The personalized search wars are beginning in earnest.
Google started mixing in content shared on Buzz into social search today. For people with friends who are avid users of Buzz, the move should fill out their personalized search results, which …
Crowdstar is giving a big endorsement to Facebook Credits. The social gaming company has made a five-year commitment to using Facebook’s virtual currency.
The introduction of Facebook Credits this summer is a big step for the social network, much like …
Another of Silicon Valley’s most prominent thinkers in social networking has come forward and confirmed that Google is working on a serious challenge to Facebook’s dominance in social networking.
Facebook’s first chief technology officer and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo said …
Facebook continues to be a Hoover for talent. The social network hired Matt Papakipos, a Google engineering director who oversaw development of Chrome OS, and Jocelyn Goldfein, a seven-year VMWare veteran and vice president, it said today.
“We’ve landed two …
