Today’s Knowledge Worker frequently has a whole new set of expectations for how to collaborate and use content as part of their daily jobs, thanks to ever-increasing usage of new Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, social networking sites, and [See the full post…]

What’s ahead for open social? How does the social networking universe continue to impact the way we do business? What parties is Jeremiah going to? These important questions are answered in this brief video podcast interview with Forrester Senior [See the full post…]

At this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education was among the Microsoft Education Award Laureates. The Institute founded the OER Commons with the goal of sifting through [See the full post…]

Trutap is a new mobile social networking application whose aim is let people stay connected with friends. Company CEO Doug Richard demonstrated the tool for the Mercury News at the recent TechCrunch40 conference. [See the full post…]

Explore how Intel is working to enable new freedoms in mobile information, interaction, user-generated content, and social networking with WiMAX broadband wireless technology. [See the full post…]

Press reports over the past sevearl years have caused some to question whether it’s safe for teenagers to use MySpace, the world’s leading social networking site. But about a year-and-a-half ago, the company hired a safety czar. Hemanshu Nigam, who [See the full post…]

Jeremiah Owyang speaks with Mary Alice Colvin, senior marketing consultant and Kendrick Efta, founder and practice manager of Allyis, at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit in Portland in July 2007.

Social networking is important to many corporations, but adoption [See the full post…]

Larry Magid is pretty upset about the way some states’ attorneys general are blaming MySpace for the fact that there are pedophiles and other predators on the site, and proposing legislation that would restrict kids’ access to social networking sites. [See the full post…]

Research analyst Adam Wright says a new study by Paris-based Ipsos Insight Research shows that social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Mixi and Cyworld have emerged as major factors in the culture of communication for adults around the world.

Even [See the full post…]

Velvet Puffin is a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it keeps running after you close your browser. Here, R. Chandrasekar demonstrates it for me and you. [See the full post…]

R. Chandrasekar, CEO and co-founder of Velvet Puffin, shows me a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it’ll keep running after the browser gets closed. We talk about his new company here and what Velvet [See the full post…]

Spock is a search engine that won’t compete with Google, except in one area: searching personal information about people. Want to find an old friend? Look up a job candidate’s background? Find a person’s blog or other social networking page? [See the full post…]

LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman talks with Mercury News venture capital reporter Connie Loizos about where he sees the social networking space headed, as well as his investment strategy these days. [See the full post…]

Forrester Research’s Vice President and Principal Analyst Charlene Li believes that social networking is becoming so important that it is like air, it is everywhere. In a videopodcast with Marketing Voices, Jennifer Jones, Li says that companies who don’t embrace [See the full post…]

Tom Karren, CEO of WingateWeb, demonstrates the social networking, auto-calendar population, and session management features in their latest event and conference management system. Fortune 500 companies — including many in the tech sector — turn to the combination [See the full post…]

Way back in 1998, Tom Karren and a handful of fellow Novell engineers set out to deliver a hosted application service built on Web technologies. The result was WingateWeb, an event and conference reservation and management system. Today WingateWeb’s [See the full post…]

Ning just released version 2.0 of its social networking platform this morning and here we talk with Marc Andreessen (yeah, the Marc who started Netscape) and co-founder Gina Bianchini, about a whole raft of things from what this new release [See the full post…]

Here we get an exclusive first look, from the floor of the LIFT conference that happened last week in Geneva, Switzerland, to UrbanSeeder, which is a unique social networking application. Maya started it to meet people and to get [See the full post…]

When Deer Valley Resort wanted to reach the Gen Xer’s and Y’s to market the Freestyle FIS World Cup, they turned to social networking and new media distribution like YouTube. Erin Grady, Deer Valley’s communications manager, worked with the [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 23, 2006 (PodTech News) – Friendster Inc. announced Monday that it has received $10 million in new funding. The money will support a renewed effort to refocus on its original mission to be a “real-world” social network. [See the full post…]