Social Networking

The Growing Cancer of Child Sexual Exploitation on the Web

April 25, 2006

Everyone has heard stories about predators lurking online, searching for young children on whom to prey. The sorry truth is that the problem is growing increasingly severe. Fingers are pointing in every direction; no one really knows where to place the blame. "It's not windows and cellar doors that ...

MySpace Addresses Security Criticism

April 11, 2006

MySpace.com has taken several steps to secure its popular service against online predators trolling the Internet for new victims -- a danger that critics say the company has done little, up until now, to forestall. The company has appointed Microsoft veteran and former Justice Department trial atto...

Viacom Planning to Take on MySpace.com

March 2, 2006

Viacom is planning to get into the social networking game, the company announced this week, with CEO Tom Freston telling attendees at an industry event in New York that the company has designs on a portal of its own to compete with the likes of News Corp.-owned MySpace.com, the personal Web page ser...

Google Enters Web Design Business

February 23, 2006

Google is venturing into new Internet waters -- again. The search giant officially launched Google Page Creator on Thursday to beef up its ever-evolving Web-based toolbox. Google's new service will compete with products from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and MySpace. Specifically, Google Page Creator is t...

Helio Targets Young Users With MySpace Deal, New Handsets

February 16, 2006

Mobile brand Helio on Thursday announced plans to target the lucrative U.S. youth market with two South Korean-made cell phones and a content deal with popular social networking site MySpace. Helio's Hero and Kickflip multimedia handsets are set to debut this spring. "Helio is for those of us who wa...

Study: Online Social Networking Keeps Friends Together

January 26, 2006

The Internet and e-mail help to expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the offline world, according to a new report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The report, "The Strength of Internet Ties," highlights how e-mail supplements, rather than repla...

Social Networking Site Adds Video to Portfolio

January 19, 2006

Social networking Web sites used to be just about connections. Now they're ballooning into ecosystems where individuals can aggregate their lives. More evidence of that appeared Wednesday as an up-and-coming networking site called TagWorld added video services to its online repertoire. Launched in N...