Three congressional aides recently lost their jobs in part because they are worthless layabouts who drink on the job, but also because they are but the latest to forget that <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/052610-twitter-quiz.html">Twitter</a> lives on the Internet and tweets - especially those badmouthing your boss -- are visible to one and all.
If you were really as "creative" as your resume claims, you'd use different terminology to showcase your skills, according to LinkedIn's 2011 list of most overused words and phrases.
Google has started pushing its Google+ social networking service further into Gmail with new features that let users add to their circles directly from their email accounts.
There's an old joke: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? Answer: I don't know and I don't care.
If the results of a recent telephone survey are to be taken at face value - a reasonably big if, in my opinion - roughly half of American adults believe that Facebook, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/052610-twitter-quiz.html">Twitter</a> and their ilk are harmful to the social development of today's young people.
Facebook users have been bombarded with explicit and violent images in the latest malware campaign aimed at the giant social networking site, a security researcher said.
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network <a href="http://diasporafoundation.org/">Diaspora</a>, has died in San Francisco.
Two professors from Wellesley College’s Department of Computer science have been awarded a nearly half million dollar National Science Foundation grant to build an application that gauges the trustworthiness of information shared on social networks, and in particular Twitter.
One of the biggest trends in IT is how consumer products have crept into the enterprise, and the trend extends to Internet services. The ingenious thing about social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn is that these consumer-oriented sites have become key tools for professionals.
Google is now shaping its Google+ social network for commerce.
Australian startups are battling with an old fashioned approach to business, a local entrepreneur has claimed.
While Aussie startup Roamz only released its first iPhone app 11 days ago, it has already reached 12,000 downloads, with CEO Jonathan Barouch saying the merging of online content, social media and mobile technology is at the core of company.
Much has changed since we examined the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/060710-tech-argument-facebook-twitter.html">ongoing war</a> between Facebook and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/052610-twitter-quiz.html">Twitter</a> in the spring of 2010. The stakes are higher, the competition has increased, and we see LinkedIn and Google roaring into the social networking arena like never before.
The pull of social media is proving hard to resist. Even some of the most buttoned-down institutions are <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/tech-debate-block-social-networks">rethinking bans</a> and relaxing access to social networks and social media sites.
Let's cut to the chase: This one is really about whether Facebook and the new kid on the block, Google+, should get to throw their considerable weight around by requiring that users post to their social-networking sites using real names.