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MTV, the teen-centric network focused on reality TV, the luxurious lifestyles of the rich and famous, and the occasional music video, announced the beta launch of Think.MTV.com Thursday. The network called the site an effort to give teens and young adults a community through which they can do good w...
Yahoo is beta testing a new social networking site that, among other things, allows users to annoy their friends. One of the unusual features of the new service -- currently called "Mash" and available by invitation only -- is the way it lets members fool around with other members' profile pages. In...
In conjunction with the Huffington Post Web site and online magazine Slate, Yahoo is offering users the ability to grab video clips of "debate" answers from Democratic presidential candidates and use them to make their own mashups. Billed by Slate as the "first-ever online-only presidential mashup,"...
There are an estimated 44 million Baby Boomers roaming the Net, and legions of marketers looking for ways to reach them. That's because, as a target market, Boomers have what it takes to make hucksters salivate: money. "It's a generation with wealth -- 2 trillion in disposable income -- and they hav...
MySpaceTV will relaunch "Quarterlife," a network television pilot about a group of recent college graduates that aired briefly on ABC in 2005. Accompanying the show's Nov. 11 resurrection will be a social networking site for fans, complete with the usual Web-related content, such as character profil...
No longer the exclusive domain of computer loving teenagers and college students, social networking has become a tool to drive corporate innovation and facilitate communication from the boardroom on down. For instance, for AAR, a Wood Dale, Ill.-based aviation services company, communication oriente...
The stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web. The challenges are substantially more involved and complicated than traditional text searching. A lack of resources...
Social network site Facebook began informing its members Wednesday that it will open users' basic profiles to non-members searching the site. In addition, over the next few weeks, the site will begin allowing search engines access to the public profiles in its database. The social networking site ha...
With outlets like Flickr, Shutterfly and Photobucket, there's been a considerable decrease in demand for programs for creating photo albums that can be uploaded to personal Web space. Still, if you have an account with an Internet Service Provider, you likely have megabytes of Web space begging to b...
Yahoo launched a new version of its Web-based mail service Monday, incorporating advanced communication functions it says have not been offered before. The new version of Yahoo Mail includes "real-time communication" in the form of instant messaging and SMS text messaging as well as several other pe...
MTV and MySpace are partnering to give voters greater access to the politicians running for U.S. president in 2008. They plan to hold a total of 11 hour-long dialogues from September through December, held on college campuses nationwide. People will be able to e-mail, instant message or text message...
Employers are denying a growing number of workers access to Facebook, the now ubiquitous social networking site, a Sophos survey shows. The poll queried 600 visitors to the security firm's Web site over a period of weeks earlier this summer. Some 43 percent said they had been denied access to Facebo...
With the continued increase in Web-based communication in the form of Web applications, social networking sites, wikis, blogs and podcasts, new security risks are rising throughout the enterprise. Organizations must take steps to strengthen their defenses in a Web 2.0 world. As Web 2.0 continues to ...
After an initial stumble -- perhaps related to the now-infamous YouTube snowman -- most of the Republican presidential candidates will be answering video questions posed by American YouTube users in a debate similar to one their Democratic Party counterparts participated in last month. CNN, YouTube ...
Some Facebook users are too friendly and play too loose with necessary security precautions, concluded a Tuesday report released by computer security firm Sophos. In the report, the company warns social network users about the dangers inherent in giving cyber-strangers access to their online profile...
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