Social Networks
Social networks—structures of relationships linking social actors—are omnipresent in contemporary society. People often obtain information about such things as job opport...
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Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen helped bring the Internet to the masses during the 1990s. Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outsi...
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Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen helped bring the Internet to the masses during the 1990s. Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outsi...
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For 17-year-old Amanda Sanchez, social networking is an obsession, a distraction _ and when she moved to a new town last summer, it was her lifeline."Over the summer, MySpace was my best friend," s...
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For 17-year-old Amanda Sanchez, social networking is an obsession, a distraction _ and when she moved to a new town last summer, it was her lifeline."Over the summer, MySpace was my best friend," s...
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Gina Reno's friends don't expect much eye contact from her when they get together. More often then not, she'll be staring at her cell phone, tapping away feverishly with calloused hands, communicat...
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Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information...
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Cisco Systems Inc., whose core business is selling the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks, said it has acquired a small social networking company that allows busin...
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As spy gear goes, a social-networking Web site doesn't quite have the same cachet as some of James Bond's high-tech gadgets.But the U.S. intelligence community is taking a page from popular online ...
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Recent data suggest the game is over in the Web-based social networking field, but that isn't stopping new new players from joining in.The two giants in this field, My-Space and Facebook, collected...
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