The internet is a common medium for sexual crime between strangers. The problem is acute on massively popular social networking platforms like MySpace because profiles and messaging platforms make targeting and communication easy. The easy mingling of adults and minors also opens the door to age-related sexual crime. You could say MySpace [...]

I’ve given a lot of credit to Facebook here in the past for keeping to the mission of relevant social networking. Unlike MySpace, which is too busy monetizing attention, hungry Facebook continues to roll out innovations that focus on social interaction. Facebook is now tapping the social well to solicit feedback — and [...]

Salesforce.com joins the ranks of IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, etc. in bringing social networking, popularized by MySpace, to the corporation. AppSpace is to be an interaction space for customers, with ties to AppExchange. Launched at the beginning of this year and now just a showcase for applications, AppExchange is scheduled to be a fully [...]

eMarketer just published an article projecting that MySpace will take the lions share 61% or $525 million dollars of estimating $865 million in 2007 total ad spending; second tier sites such as Facebook, Bebo, Piczo, Friendster, etc will share $200 mil; third tier portal sites such as MSN Spaces, Yahoo! 360, AIM Pages, Orkut, etc [...]