When social networking site Facebook's instant messaging service launched for select users last week, talk of Facebook Chat wholly devouring the IM industry soon followed. The New York Post ran a piece heralding the death of legacy IM client AOL Instant Messenger, which quoted Pali Capital analyst Richard Greenfield: ...
Business professionals may have finally realized that social networking isn't just for the young and angsty. The latest metrics on social network growth reveal some impressive figures for business-oriented networking site LinkedIn, which more than quadrupled its number of unique users since last March. by Carlos Bergfeld
The season premiere of Gossip Girl -- the incredibly popular CW program that the current cover of New York Magazine calls the "Greatest. Show. Ever." -- debuted this week to slightly lower numbers than its previous season, with 2.44 million viewers as opposed to 2.5 million. It's significant because of...
Facebook has countered News Corp.-owned MySpace's announcement of its data availability initiative yesterday with, well, an announcement today revealing the exact same thing for Facebook. This newest product, pushing both social networks toward an increasingly homogeneous end, allows users to carry public profile info, photos, and friends...