Social Software News

Rocking the online world ... Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie. MySpace Australia has launched its online television channel, http://vids.myspace.com/ , with a global concert by US band Death Cab for Cutie.

Connect to CFRB and other listeners. All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address.

A lawyer representing a woman accused of having a role in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide is seeking the girl's mental health records, claiming a medication switch shortly ...

Boston, Mass.- August 19, 2008-uLocate Communications, the world's leading developer of location enabled applications, announces an agreement with Garmin to add friend-finding capabilities to select current and ...

BEFORE posting the latest photos of yourself up to no good on Facebook or MySpace , think again - your next employer could be watching.

When Barack Obama announces his choice for vice president, the real payoff may come during the next few months _ one text message at a time.

Obama's campaign plans to break the news of the Democratic candidate's vice presidential pick to people who have signed up to receive e-mails and text messages from the campaign. It should give Obama's team access to tens of thousands of cell phone numbers that could be used to mobilize voters under 30 on Election Day.

'What Obama is creating is this army of individuals, these grass-roots activists, who are out there trying to change the world in 160 characters or less,' said David All, a Republican strategist who specializes in technology.

Facebook has outgrown its warren of offices in downtown Palo Alto and will move into a bigger building at the Stanford Research Park early next year, the company confirmed today.

Erin O'Brien and her friends are do-it-yourself investors. As part of an online community at the brokerage Zecco, they consult each other on terminology, tax law and investment philosophy.

Someone claiming to be a sister of the young man stabbed and beheaded on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last month has been trying to use the horrific killing to collect money.

Friendster , the social network that's big in Asia , has launched an OpenSocial version of its nine month old developer platform .

The new Equinix Inc. data center in Ashburn will provide connectivity infrastructure for one of the largest producers of Web widgets.

In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol promised that "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." Forty years later, his prediction is sort of coming true.

VisitBritain has some tips for Americans interested in swapping homes as a way to save money on vacation.

The Daily Mail profiles the world's oldest facebooker - 102 Year Old Ivy Bean:: Ivy Bean is a great-grandmother with a difference.

The newly released Movable Type 4.2 blogging platform promises to be the fastest and most secure release of Movable Type ever and comes packed with a free blogger license and new features that you've been ...

In a step toward the type of future pictured in the hit film "Iron Man," a firm in the Netherlands is letting people fabricate items designed in three-dimensions on the Internet.

The social networking Web site MySpace has removed 146 profiles of registered Nebraska sex offenders, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says.

Internet experts have urged companies not to ban staff from using social applications such as Facebook and MySpace, insisting they encourage social interaction.

FIREFIGHTERS spent an hour extinguishing a field blaze that engulfed 20 acres of land near Bury St Edmunds.

Intel Corp. is combining computer animation and social networking to produce an original animated short film.