Facebook has started to test a new version of its Publisher, the tool that members can use to post notes, status updates, links, photos, videos and other content on their profile "wall" and share them with their friends.
If large companies are looking for evidence that a social networking strategy can work, Booz Allen Hamilton may have given them some.
Autonomy is giving businesses a way to analyze and react to discussion of their products and services on social media sites.
Social networking site Facebook has been blocked in Iran since Saturday, according to the country's opposition, as opposition voters increasingly turn to online tools like social networking to promote their candidates.
A Chinese rival of Wikipedia that also lets users join groups and chat as they might on Facebook has drawn on those social elements to pull ahead of its competition.
Facebook has adopted the OpenID user-identity framework to simplify how people register for and log into the social networking site.
American Express is turning to social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in an effort to better manage customer relations and boost customer service levels.
IBM is looking to drive interest in its DeveloperWorks information portal for programmers with a major dose of social-networking mojo.
News Corp. has chosen a former Facebook executive to lead MySpace, the company said Friday, a day after announcing that the current CEO would step down.
Chris DeWolfe will hand over his CEO title at MySpace, whose growth has stagnated over the past year while the popularity of rival Facebook booms.
Using Facebook at work will make you a better employee, says the University of Melbourne.
Facebook's seasoned CFO will leave the company, the social-networking site confirmed Wednesday.
By now, many collaboration software providers consider it a must to have an enterprise social-networking component in their suites, but Google, which shook up this market with its Web-hosted Apps product in 2006, stands out for lacking this capability.
Productivity loss, information leakage, and defamation of fellow employees are all enough to get us fired from our jobs, unless, of course, it is done under the guise of a social network for the enterprise 2.0.
A warning to those who love such social media sites as Facebook: The bad guys are coming for you.