"Social networking sites are the biggest threat to people’s privacy on the internet, say the billionaire founders of Google."

‘[Australian] company Fairfax has admitted its journalists are too old to attract the next generation of readers. … "

Loïc Le Meur looks at how important news finds him via the various social tools he uses online. This is how geeks and young readers find information. Advice to publishers: understand this now. (via Adam Tinworth)

"[Y[ounger voters tend to be not just consumers of news …but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news … they are replacing the pr

"America’s intelligence agencies prepare to launch “A-Space”, an internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace."

"[A] next big thing—web-mail then, social networking now—can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from their favourite web portal. The non sequitur is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own rig

"Critics yesterday accused the corporation of empire building and going beyond its remit with the plans."

Colin Mulvany: "I have been a producer of web content for years on a creaky CMS that only partially takes advantage of the Web 2.0 tools available on any WordPress blog. I just didn’t see the big picture of why this is important for all of us in the new

"Guardian Unlimited will be using Pluck’s SiteLife Social Media Platform, a package of tools that create blogs, photo-sharing, content ratings, reader comments, profiles, social networking and forums."

"Twitter and why it works (and sometimes doesn’t work) … in part …has to do with what sociologist Mark Granovetter called ‘weak ties.’"

Slate also reported on the Mitchell report into doping in baseball using social network analysis to create an interactive graph showing links between the accused players.

"35 percent of all online teen girls blog, while only 20 percent of online teen boys do so … The Internet for them is much less about consuming content than it is about interpersonal communications. … BlufftonToday.com, is dominated by females."

Automated links, RSS feeds, comments, social bookmarking have propelled a phrase coined by Paul Bradshaw from 0 to nearly 1,600 search results in just six days.

"Hachette Filipacchi has launched a new social networking and social bookmarking website for its teen title Sugar, and plans to introduce widgets to integrate the site with Bebo and MySpace."