If you needed any more proof that Twitter has transformed how we absorb information and communicate, look no further than Kanye West.
Apple this week launched Ping, a new social network that runs within the iTunes software.
Facebook is apparently testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social network.
It's been two weeks since Facebook users took to blogs and message boards to voice their concerns about Places, a location-based service that allows people to check in to gathering spots via the social network.
We've all done it -- surfed on over to the book of faces, our hearts racing and pupils dilating with excitement, let our cursors linger over those oh-so-powerful words, "Remove From Friends," and clicked away with the maniacal glee of a serial killer.
In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults.
Nancy Ehrlich was nearing 50 and frustrated, teaching at her small Pennsylvania town's elementary school with colleagues who didn't share her love of technology.
They're everywhere here: on the sides of buses and along the walls of subway stations, posters for the upcoming film "The Social Network" bearing little else than the three words "PUNK, BILLIONAIRE, GENIUS" and a partial headshot of lead actor Jesse Eisenberg.
Social news site Digg this week launched a major new version that seeks to change the way we consume news radically.
Intrigued by Foursquare, or Facebook's new Places feature, but not sure anybody would be interested in where you go every day?
A beagle named James Bond has more than 2,600 people following him on Twitter. WTOC's Michelle Paynter reports.
Based on comments on news sites and Facebook's official blog, many users appear apprehensive about Facebook Places, the social-networking site's new location feature.
Facebook has rolled out its long-awaited location feature, Facebook Places, an application that lets users "check in" on their mobile phones so friends know where they're hanging out and what they're doing.
Facebook this week launched "Places," a service that allows any user to "check in" to restaurants, stores and other local businesses -- thereby sharing their location with friends.
Imagine, if you will, a crowded dance floor: Men and women are talking, laughing awkwardly and trying to gyrate their rhythmically challenged hips to that Phoenix song that goes "do let, do let, blah blah."
Social-networking giant Facebook has entered the check-in world.
Lanes often dissolve into meaningless white lines painted on roads.
Lots of people think the Internet is a bit too chipper -- so much so that they've clamored for a "dislike" button on Facebook, which, to date, only officially allows people to "like" content on its site.
Twitter unleashed an official "tweet button" today. Given that third parties have provided "retweet buttons" for more than a year, will the official buttons have any impact on the way we share content online?
Twitter has just launched the "Tweet Button," an official option for web publishers to count retweets and let their readers easily share content.
Consider it a sign of the times, or even just success that Twitter now has a policy in place to handle ownership of a user's account once they've died.
The long-rumored geolocation "check-in" feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET.
You've got a few reasons to dread and/or loathe birthdays. But at least now you can cross that hot mess of a Facebook news feed off your list of things to worry about on your or your friends' birthdays.
Erik Hersman of Ushahidi explains how crowd sourcing was used to map problems during Kenya's recent referendum.
Google this week abandoned "Wave," its much-hyped social collaboration tool. Wave was perhaps the prototypical Google product: Technically advanced, incredibly ambitious and near-impossible to use.
There's nothing too unusual about the way Shiva Lingham starts her day. After a quick breakfast, she goes upstairs and crawls into her mom's unmade bed.
I have a mission for you. One so lofty, so arduous, so utterly impossible that many of you may abandon the cause.
Social media expert Wendy Harman talks about being with the President for his tweet.
Social media expert Wendy Harman talks about being with the President for his first tweet.
A man has collected information from 100 million Facebook users and distributed it online in a downloadable file.
Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions, which will allow users to get answers to their queries from the entire Facebook community.
Facebook began rolling out an ambitious new product this week: A "question and answer" service.
From the two-story care home where she lived in the northern English city of Bradford, 104-year-old Ivy Bean would tell her nearly 57,000 Twitter followers around the world what she did each day -- from eating fish and chips to sitting in the garden.
Composing an e-mail is kind of like making out: Everyone assumes they know what they're doing, but in reality plenty of people could use some pointers.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is launching a Flickr photostream Monday, Buckingham Palace announced.
CNN's John Roberts talks to an expert on the dangers of a hyperspeed society and how the internet can ruin lives.
Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com.
In an interview that will air tonight on ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked frankly about an upcoming IPO, the Facebook movie, a shady lawsuit and much more.
Facebook is primed to announce this week that it's amassed a half billion active friends, a milestone reinforcing its status as the king of social networks -- a company to be regarded with the seriousness and power (if not revenue) of Google, Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Unless you're one of those internet hermits still jammin' around with a Hotmail address (How's 1997? Can you bring me back a slap bracelet?), you likely have a few of what you might teasingly call "stalkers."
Lazy, promiscuous, confused, selfish, brain damaged and overall hopeless are all labels that have been given to China's so-called post-90s generation, or those who were born after 1990 who are now mostly in their teens today.
CNN's Errol Barnett explains a new safety feature for young Facebook users in the UK.
Ken Savage says that, at first, he welcomed his wife's new interest in Facebook.
The ground rules for online courtesy gelled sometime in the late '90s: Don't swear on public forums. Zip large files before sending. AVOID WRITING IN CAPS, AS IT IS RUDE TO CYBERSHOUT.
Microsoft is announcing today that it has integrated Facebook and Windows Live Messenger into Outlook, bringing the streams of millions of Facebook users into inboxes across the world.
If online reports are to be believed, Google could be cooking up a rival for Facebook -- and bringing the maker of popular social games like "FarmVille" with them.
The days of digital birthday cakes, virtual bottles of champagne and other cutesy icons from Facebook are numbered.
There is still time to get your YouTube video showcased at Guggenheim museums. But not much.
Twitter intends to offer special deals and discounts to its users, the company revealed this week. Is this a smart move for the social messaging site, or just an attempt to leap aboard the "online deals" bandwagon?
So you've had your heart ripped from your chest -- the left ventricle cleaved from the right. The aorta geysering blood across your bedroom floor, on which you are currently sprawled.
And you thought LeBron James Watch 2010 was out of control already?
Facebook has begun testing face detection technology for Facebook Photos.
The "Most Important Person You Don't Know" for Wednesday is Pete Cashmore, Mashable's founder.
Sometimes foreign policy isn't best digested 140 characters at a time.
Google is working on a social service to rival Facebook, if Web rumors are to be believed.
Facebook is embroiled in another controversy after the popular social networking site on Monday temporarily disabled a page that calls for a boycott of oil giant BP.
A teaser trailer recently released by Columbia Pictures provides a brief glimpse at "The Social Network," Hollywood's take on Facebook that's scheduled for release in October.
That's the argument John Timpane made in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday: that our hypermetabolic, Twitter-fueled media culture allowed the remarks from General McChrystal 's crew to spread so far and so fast, Obama had almost no choice but to relieve him. Think of it as information blitzkrieg.
Facebook's privacy problems have been in the news ... again.
Between the recent unveiling of Apple's iPhone 4 or Microsoft's trendy Kin touch phone, people can constantly be in touch.
Lady Gaga and President Obama don't often travel in the same circles, but they're the top competitors in a popularity contest that could have one of them setting a record by this weekend.
Helmet under her arm, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh arrives after traveling 450 kilometers by motorbike, evading the security police, to tell CNN the story of her imprisonment for blogging in Vietnam.
CNN's Patricia Wu looks at whether Twitter is an effective job search tool.
It's something everyone dreads upon breaking up or having a falling out with a friend: the inevitable run-in.
A new feature within Twitter's Facebook app that lets users find who among their friends has a Twitter account has been put on ice by Facebook.
Much has been said about the iPad's ability to reinvigorate the publishing industry. But the first generation of magazine apps on the iPad fall short: They're an attempt to turn the clock back, rather than move the medium forward. Having splurged on a half-dozen iPad magazines this month, they're now gathering dust on my home screen, never to be read again.
In March, Twitter CEO Evan Williams first unveiled @Anywhere, a new platform aimed at news and media outlets to knit Twitter more deeply into their own sites. After all, Twitter has become more or less synonymous with real-time, breaking news -- so it seems like any publisher would want to work @Anywhere into its code to put the latest, freshest information front-and-center. Right?
So you're surfing along on your favorite website when you see something that gets your plasma boiling -- so much so that that pulsating vein above your eye is about to burst.
Millions of Facebook addicts worldwide worry that someday soon they'll have to pay to use the site.
Twitter this week began testing a new type of advertising: "Promoted Trends." Under the new system, brands can pay to appear below the "Trending Topics," the most talked-about terms on Twitter at any given moment.
Ah, summer: barbecues, outdoor concerts and lazy nights drinking Bud Light Lime in front of Terry's vintage metal fan, singing old Monkees jams into its whirring blades so as to get that "auto-tune" effect.
On June 21, David Perez will give up free will for seven days.
GPS-based social sites like Foursquare offer a way to hook up with friends and get great deals, but are there risks?
To anyone who uses Twitter, the word "tweet" is as natural as, well, a bird. But don't expect to see it in The New York Times.
If you're a frequent Twitter user, you've probably noticed that the microblogging site has been crashing repeatedly this week.
Worried whether your kids are being safe when they're on the internet?
Twitter has become a vital tool over the past few years, allowing folks to chronicle everything from the Hudson River plane crash to performances of Romeo and Juliet.
If you'd asked Bekki Scotto a few years back about her interest in attending a high school reunion, she would have rolled her eyes and laughed in your face.
Actor Ed Norton addressed the Mashable Media Summit about the Crowdrise fundraising site.
Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore talks about the future of social media and addresses concerns about privacy.
People who use both Facebook and Yahoo will be able to link those accounts and share updates and messages across platforms thanks to a major redesign rolled out by Yahoo on Monday.
Less than six months after joining Twitter, Marc MacKenzie has found his groove -- starting with a cliche and then giving it a twist.
An astronaut's pictures of Earth are attracting a huge following on Twitter. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout reports.
Dealing with other people is hard enough IRL ("in real life," for those among you who are not abject tech geeks). Add social media into the equation, and you have myriad opportunities to make enemies and alienate people.
Twitter is testing out a new feature that would help users find others who share their interests.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week rebuffed the suggestion that Apple will revolutionize TV in the same way it has reshaped the music industry, mobile phones and tablet computers.
Facebook has launched a page devoted to U.S. politics, located at Facebook.com/USpolitics.
Twitter engineer Nick Kallen posted a tweet late Wednesday night to highlight a new test feature that the microblogging service is working on.
Earlier this week, we reported on a new Facebook clickjacking scheme that takes advantage of the service's "Like" buttons; today a variation of that attack is starting to appear, this time using Justin Bieber as bait.
The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from"Web site" to "website" (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow.
Let it be known that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted a book to be written about the company he founded.
As a kid, my mom made my brother and I put 10 cents in a swear jar each time a "bad word" escaped our lips.
The popularity of social media is playing a key role in Colombia's election. CNN's Hala Gorani explains.
Tech guru Mario Armstrong goes over steps Facebook users can take to keep their information private.
CNN's Errol Barnett explains why privacy concerns have some users logging off Facebook for good.
CNN's Tony Harris talks to an expert about what's true and what's false regarding Facebook's privacy claims.
CNN's Maggie Lake looks at what Facebook is doing to alleviate users' concerns over privacy.
Part of Foursquare's appeal is the mystery, the sense of flying blind when you're trying to earn a badge or mayorship. No one really knows how many times you must check into a location to become mayor.
When Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a "Like" button that publishers could place on their Web pages, he predicted it would make the Web smarter and "more social."
Monday was Quit Facebook Day, and for all intents and purposes, it was a bust.
The U.S. Congress' interest in probing Facebook's and Google's privacy practices keeps growing.
Before the explosion of social media, Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer in Maine, dug up dirt on his client's spouses the old-fashioned way: with private investigators and subpoenas. Now the first place his team checks for evidence is Facebook.
A Facebook phishing attack is on the loose this weekend -- the third widespread attack on the site in the past three weeks.
South Korea's defense ministry will show wreckage of a sunken ship to a group of Twitter users in an effort to dispel doubts among young skeptics about its investigation blaming North Korea for attacking the vessel, state media said Monday.
If Facebook already tells you who's got big plans for this weekend (or what they planted on their FarmVille farm), why not ask it where to grab dinner or whom you should vote for in the next election?
With the announcement of "simpler" privacy settings this week, Facebook must surely hope that its torturous privacy debacle is drawing to a close. It's not.
Faced with a backlash that wouldn't go away, Facebook announced changes Wednesday that will make it easier for users to change privacy settings and block outside parties from seeing personal information.
Are you confused by the myriad changes Facebook keeps making to its privacy settings?
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