Social Networks

Here are the latest posts about Social Networks on The Write News:

Report: Facebook Close to Filing IPO Papers, Valuation Could Reach $100 Billion
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook may file papers for an IPO as early as Wednesday of next week. (January 27, 2012)

Myspace Delays Announcing Relaunch Plans
The Wall Street Journal reports that Specific Media LLC and Justin Timberlake have delayed their announcement about how they plan to revamp MySpace. (September 19, 2011)

U.S. Marine Corps Bans Twitter, Social Networks
Wired's Danger Room blog reports that the U. (August 4, 2009)

Social Network Users Concerned Media is Watching Them
The BBC reports that a Press Complaints Commission survey found that 80% of those polled said they would be more cautious about what they posted on social media websites if they knew they were being watched by the media. (June 5, 2008)

OpenSocial Foundation Debuts With Yahoo Onboard
The nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation has been launched. (March 25, 2008)

Will Young People Still Care About Facebook in 2013?
There are reports today that the traffic to Facebook might be falling or plateauing in the U. (February 22, 2008)

MySpace Wants Third Party Widgets
MySpace isn't going to let Facebook have all the fun. (October 18, 2007)

LinkedIn Adds Professional Photos
Adam Nash, the senior director of products at LinkedIn, has announced the addition of photos to the LinkedIn social network. (September 28, 2007)

Large Traffic Jumps for Social Networks Over Past Year
The chart below from a ComScore press release shows the amazing growth some of the largest social networks have achieved over the past twelve months. (August 8, 2007)

A Social Network For the Dead
Mashable reports that a social network called Respectance is a social network "dedicated to remembering those who have died. (July 27, 2007)

Linkedin Claims Professional Social Network Domination
CNN's The Browser reports that LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye believes people will maintain two social networking profiles and that LinkedIn will dominate as the professional social network. (June 17, 2007)

CBS Buys Last.fm for $280 Million
CBS Corporation is buying the popular music social network Last. (May 31, 2007)

Washington Post Launches MyPost
The Washington Post announced earlier this month the launch of a new social networking feature on washingtonpost. (May 30, 2007)

Facebook To Let Companies Establish Special Pages
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is going to open up its website up to corporations and organizations. (May 21, 2007)

New Social Network Promises Only Happy Content
Everything's rosy at this new social network. (May 9, 2007)

Clear Channel to Launch Social Networks
Clear Channel is launching social networks for its radio stations. (May 1, 2007)

Does Firefox Really Need Social Networking Features?
Startup Meme reports that Mozilla is planning to add social networking features to the Firefox browser called the Coop. (April 4, 2007)

Facebook Churns Out Big Numbers
Venturebeat has an article on Facebook and it looks like strong growth is continues on the social network. (March 30, 2007)

Social Network For Seniors Raises $22 Million
Eons, a social network that has Jane Seymour as an advisor and it is targeted at the 50+ crowd, has raised $22 million in financing. (March 6, 2007)

Create Social Networks With Ning
There is some buzz over a new website called Ning that allows users to create social networks. (March 4, 2007)

Reuters Planning Financial Social Network
The Guardian reports that Reuters is about to enter the social networking race with a niche subscriber-only social network for people for in the financial industry including "fund managers, traders and analysts. (March 2, 2007)

MyBlogLog Plugs Security Holes and Bugs. Explains Ad Clicks
There has been a lot of discussion lately about bugs, spam and security holes on MyBlogLog, the popular social networking widget for blogs. (February 24, 2007)

MySpace: A Place for Errors
Baseline, a ZDNet website, has an interesting article by David Carr explaining how MySpace attempts to solve its scalability issues. (January 17, 2007)

Hearst Magazines Buys eCrush.com
Hearst Magazines' online unit has spent an unknown amount of money acquiring an online dating and social networking community called eCrush. (January 9, 2007)

New Law Turns Bloggers, Web 2.0 Sites Into Obscenity Police Force
A new law drafted by Senator John McCain would require blogs, social networks and websites to monitor posts or profiles for "obscenity" and child pornography. (December 13, 2006)

Will Social Media Destroy Western Civilization?
The title of this post sounds like a strange question to ask but Andy Rutledge has a post about how social media can be boring, mediocre and possibly even civilization ending. (December 1, 2006)

Zune To Add Video Sharing Feature
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft plans to add a video sharing feature to the Zune player but won't say when that will happen. (November 14, 2006)

Death Row Inmates on MySpace
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that at least 30 Texas death row inmates have profiles on MySpace. (November 14, 2006)

Warcraft Social Network Launches
Mashable reports that a new social network has launched for World of Warcraft players called the Warcraft Social Network. (November 7, 2006)

Social Networks and Interpersonal Intelligence
Some individuals are turning away from the social networks in favor of face-to-face meetings. (October 10, 2006)

Grownups Flock to Social Networks
Teenagers now share social networking hubs with people in their 30s, 40s and 50s according to a new report from comScore. (October 6, 2006)

MySpace Worth Anywhere From $0 to $20 Billion
Mark Glaser has written a funny spoof of the recent Reuters story that suggested MySpace could be worth as much as $15 billion. (October 2, 2006)

Facebook Opens Doors For New Faces
Facebook has opened its virtual doors to a much wider web audience. (September 27, 2006)

Wallop: The Flash-based, Invite-Only Social Network That Charges Fees
The strategy behind the new Wallop social network seems to be to do the opposite of what every successful social network is doing. (September 26, 2006)

Famster Offers Family Websites, Blogs and Video Sharing
Famster is a new family-oriented homepage service that includes blogs, video sharing and many other features. (August 20, 2006)