Social Blogging

Today Google launched their KNOL service. A user contributed knowledge base that can take a huge bite out of for instance Wikipedia.

There's a growing backlash against our growing in-boxes. A new crop of entrepreneurs has sprung up with antidotes -- some of which create more e-mail. It happened with cigarettes.

Participatory news network NowPublic announced its second MostPublic Index, identifying the 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco.

Open source software makes IBM, Websense half-yearly security trend reports for the first time.

Attorney General Tom Corbett announced Wednesday authorities are reviewing the Myspace.com accounts of 185 Pennsylvania sex offenders to see if they violated terms of their probation or parole by using the ...

An arrest has been made in the murder of Angie Zapata , a transgender woman who was beaten to death last week in her home in Greeley, Colorado: "Alan Ray Andrade, 31, was arrested in Thornton on Tuesday and ...

The Telegraph tells us this morning that a new regulatory body is about to be set up to police blogs and social network sites.

The FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center , have received reports of recent spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software, known as malware.

Volantis launches the social storefront. What is it? Well it is a more storefront that connects subscribers with social network Facebook .

' The Republican National Committee stepped up its efforts Tuesday to use social networking technologies that Barack Obama's presidential campaign has effectively embraced in order to criticize the presumptive ...

A collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Internet photo-sharing community Flickr is giving photography enthusiasts a chance to play history detective.

Poland's national police headquarters has banned officers from using a popular social networking site similar to Facebook because they were spending too much time using it, a newspaper said Monday.

Facebook has hired Mozilla technology veteran Mike Schroepfer as a director of engineering, as part of the social network's recent executive shuffle.

We already published about Cellspin, this cool phone application that allows users to publish audio, photo, and text simultaneously to their favorites blogging or social networking websites in a few clicks.

Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook.