A Google felmérése szerint a megkérdezettek 64 százaléka úgy látja, hogy Obama elnök ügyesebben használja fel kampányában a közösségi médiaeszközöket, mint ellenfele, a republikánus Mitt Romney.

The deal will boost the enterprise social networking capabilities in Office, SharePoint and other Microsoft collaboration products.

So.cl is however still viewed as an experimental project targeted at students.

While Google officials, from CEO Larry Page on down, are all aflutter over Google+, Mark Zuckerberg views Google's new social networking site as "their own little version of Facebook."

U.S. residents have significantly increased their online social-networking activities via their mobile phones, making these sites and applications one of the hottest in the mobile space, according to comScore.

Marketers in the U.S. significantly increased their spending on online display ads in the first quarter, as social networking leader Facebook served up the most impressions of this type of ad, according to comScore.

Google hopes to help users manage the increasingly large amount of social networking information they get.

Social networking site Facebook has been blocked in Iran since Saturday, according to the country's opposition, as opposition voters increasingly turn to online tools like social networking to promote their candidates.

Europe's top Internet security agency, ENISA, called Tuesday for new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Belatedly recognizing the importance of social networking, Google this week will unleash its strongest response yet to the rising threat and skyrocketing popularity of MySpace and Facebook.

Facebook Inc. will sell a US$240 million minority stake to Microsoft Corp., which as part of the deal will also expand the advertising services it provides to the social networking phenom, the companies said Wednesday in a statement.

Mozilla Corp.'s barebones R&D operation has unveiled a technology prototype that would add social networking features to Firefox.

A legfrissebb internetes trend a social networking, azaz olyan hálózatok, melyek baráti, ismerősi csoportokat kötnek össze. Az eddigi piacvezető MySpace, valamint a további szereplők mellé most a Microsoft is szeretne felzárkózni, sőt, jóval nagyobb tervei is vannak.