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Article | 18/09/2007 Yahoo rolls out limited beta for new social network

Yahoo has quietly rolled out a beta version of a new social networking site called Mash that will let users to create online profiles similar to the l...

Article | 14/09/2007 Virtual worlds making artificial intelligence apps 'smarter'

An artificial intelligence company next month will unveil plans for a program that will help its AI software "learn" by interacting with humans in vir...

Article | 14/09/2007 Study reveals huge disparity between news sites

The topics covered by mainstream news sites are "markedly different" from those on sites that allow users to determine what is newsworthy, according t...

Article | 12/09/2007 Diving into a virtual world? Better plan ahead, report says

While companies are increasingly turning to virtual worlds for employee collaboration and as a way to strengthen relationships with customers, few hav...

Article | 7/09/2007 Morgan Stanley, Pfizer turning to Web 2.0 tools

Morgan Stanley and Pfizer are among several companies launching initiatives to fold Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis and social networks into the enter...

Article | 28/08/2007 KickApps adds iPhone support for videos

KickApps, which provides white-label, hosted social networking capabilities to corporate Web sites, announced Monday that any video uploaded to its si...

Article | 22/08/2007 New search engine focuses on gamers

GenieKnows.com Tuesday unveiled a search engine that focuses on providing video game players with results ranging from gamer reviews, blogs, news, dis...

Article | 22/08/2007 Bebo adds Microsoft's IM to its social network

Bebo, operator of the Bebo social networking site, and Microsoft on Tuesday announced an agreement to offer the Windows Live Messenger instant messagi...

Article | 9/08/2007 People-focused search engine launched

<a href="http://www.spock.com/">Spock.com</a>, a new search engine focused on finding people by crawling social networking sites such as MySpace.com a...

Article | 9/08/2007 Google News to allow people in stories to add comments

Google News is adding a new feature that will allow people involved in news stories to add their comments to the Web page.

Article | 2/08/2007 Social networking quickly taking global hold

The use of social networking sites worldwide has grown substantially in the past year, with some sites seeing total visits increase as much as 270 per...

Article | 18/07/2007 Google's YouTube unit dominates online video business

Almost 75 percent of U.S. Internet users streamed video online in May, according to a report released Tuesday by ComScore, an Internet measurement and...

Article | 11/07/2007 Blogosphere buzzes about 'death of the page view'

The blogosphere is buzzing about what some are calling the death of the page view following Nielsen/NetRating's announcement Tuesday that it would sto...

Article | 10/07/2007 Social networks becoming ingrained in daily adult life

The social networking phenomenon continues to take hold of Internet users as one in five adults worldwide say they have visited such sites, according ...

Article | 10/07/2007 New Web metric likely to hurt Google, help YouTube

In a nod to the success of emerging Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX and streaming media, one of the country's largest Internet benchmarking companies w...