Some social media junkies might find this one akin to the Web 2.0 equivalent of a flying pig, whereas others see it as a logical move for LinkedIn in a social media market that’s increasingly competitive. The business networking site just announced that it now allows its members to upload a photograph to accompany their [...]

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By Reihan Salam, Washington Post

Last week, I launched the Great Facebook Purge of 2007. In one fell swoop, I whittled down a list of 274 “friends” to a more manageable … um, 258. Even weeding out this tiny amount of people was difficult and unpleasant. Almost every subtraction made me wince. While my intention had [...]

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is in talks to acquire a stake of up to 5 percent of social-networking wunderkind Facebook.

Discussions over such an agreement with the Mark Zuckerberg-founded company are still preliminary, the story by Robert A. Guth, Kevin J. Delaney and Vauhini Vara notes, but if such a deal goes [...]

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(Fortune)—As MySpace hooks up with MTV (whose parent Viacom once tried to buy it) and Facebook makes the cover of Newsweek, it’s clear that social networking is only getting hotter. (But couldn’t Newsweek find Mark Zuckerberg anecdotes that hadn’t already appeared in Fortune?)The reason social networking matters is simple: people do things together, and this [...]

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NEW YORK (Fortune)—Imagine that when you shopped online for a digital camera, you could see whether anyone you knew already owned it and ask them what they thought. Imagine that when you searched for a concert ticket you could learn if friends were headed to the same show. Or that you knew which sites – [...]

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(Fortune Magazine)—“Everyone believes all the b.s. press that says MySpace is done for and Facebook has passed us,” moans Tom Anderson.

You may know Tom. He’s president of MySpace. He may even be your “friend” – he’s the first one that all of MySpace’s 200 million-plus members got when they signed up. Normally he’s low-key, but [...]

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(Fortune)—For all of Facebook’s recent successes, MySpace continues to thrive. That’s the theme of my recent big Fortune story on the MySpace/Facebook battle, “As Facebook takes off, MySpace strikes back.” Meanwhile, innumerable permutations of the seductive social networking model continue to arise, because this is increasingly the kind of Internet that users are showing, with [...]

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Congressional action on a soon-to-expire ban on Internet access taxes may be slow going at the moment, but members of the head of the Senate Republican High Tech Task Force says he believes there are enough votes to make the law permanent. “People use the Internet to access information and purchase goods and services,” [...]

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Caroline McCarthy of News.com writes:

I’ll admit it: I watched Wednesday night’s series premiere of Gossip Girl, the new teen drama on the CW network that details the slightly-too-scandalous lives of privileged young New Yorkers—as chronicled by an anonymous blogger. One of the prominent characters in the first scene is a sleek LG Chocolate mobile phone. [...]

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On Wednesday, news aggregation community Digg announced a number of new features designed to take the site’s social networking beyond simply “digging” and “burying” headlines and blog entries. Starting later on Wednesday night, members of the site will be able to further customize their account profiles so that they more closely resemble something on a [...]

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