The announcement could come as early as this week
Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an attempt to inject the Web mail service with social-networking capabilities popularized by Twitter and Facebook, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The recent Twitter hack raises the challenge of generating secure and unique passwords you can remember.
An analysis of real-world online behaviour has warned of the unsettling phenomenon that led to this week's high-profile Twitter login scare. Far too many people re-use the same logins for more than one site.
Simplify your home page, download your friends' photo albums, add Facebook chat to Firefox, and kill ads.
I like using Facebook to keep tabs on my friends, but I don't like the endless stream of "so-and-so took this quiz" and "Joe became friends with Jane" messages.
Tired of Facebook's ad-heavy, overly cluttered interface? Brizzly strips away everything but the good stuff.
Brizzly provides a clean, simple, ad-free interface for Facebook. Twitter, too.
These games may seem like a fun time, but players are susceptible to unwanted recurring charges and security threats
TechCrunch.com has unearthed a video of Zynga CEO Mark Pincus saying the company "did every horrible thing in the book" to make money off of players.
Pope Benedict leads a global religion, yet his priestly advice on social networking works for enterprises of all types.
In telling priests to become more web and social network savvy, Pope Benedict XVI is offering valuable advice for businesses, too.
Even a social networking addict can get tired of Twitter or fed up with Facebook on a smartphone
Though your mobile phone keeps you more connected, it can also make things more complicated. Using a cell phone to track e-mail, text messages, instant messages, voicemail, Facebook, and Twitter can be a burden--after all, these social networking applications attempt to shoehorn Web 2.0 resources onto small devices that weren't designed with Web 2.0 in mind.
The microblogging site was down for about an hour and a half Wednesday morning
Twitter addicts had to entertain themselves with something other than the social network and microblogging site for more than an hour Wednesday morning.
A big week for social networking with former Microsoft chairman and Obama tweeting
It's been a big week for social networking.
Users sending floods of messages about Haiti are mistaken for Facebook spammers
Some Facebook users sending messages about the Haitian earthquake may have been a bit dismayed at times this week to find that they'd been booted off the site for suspicion of spamming.
Prison escapee decides to taunt police on Facebook and gets caught.
Usually when convicts escape from prison, they go into hiding, maintain a low profile, and try to disappear from the public eye. Others, like Craig "Lazie" Lynch, cannot resist the tug of fame and make public spectacles of themselves, flaunting their "brilliance" by taunting police. And then they get caught.
Facebook makes replying to wall posts, status updates, and photo comments as easy as replying to an e-mail.
Facebook now allows you to reply to wall posts, status updates, and photo comments via e-mail, eliminating the need to log into your account first. The move comes as a welcome convenience to many - in particularly, deskbound workers whose company bans Facebook at the workplace.
The company has posted four jobs with the word "monetization" in the title
Twitter, the popular microblogging and social-networking service whose revenue strategy remains largely a mystery, is looking for people who know a thing or two about making money.
Earlier survey shows Facebook leads to lower grades, but UNH study says users are rested
While a study last year found use of Facebook has led to lower grades among college students, a survey of University of New Hampshire students released this week concluded that the popular social network is not keeping them up at night.
Despite the inflammatory comments, an interview with an anonymous Facebook employee is really much ado about nothing.
Facebook is tracking your every move on the site -- or so says one purported Facebook employee, according to an anonymous interview with the Rumpus. In the interview, the Facebook employee, whose identity was protected so she wouldn't lose her job for talking to the media, also said that Facebook employees have relatively easy access to user accounts.
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