Friendio, the latest Internet social utility, today exited beta testing in order to officially launch the social network. Friendio includes a platform that shows a user location on a map and can import friends from other networks allowing users to keep up with their friend connections while making new ones. In addition, posting a status… Read More »

Moodler is the first microblogging app to track the mood of one’s social network. Unlike Twitter, where the constant stream of tweets makes it practically impossible to keep track or understand the mood, Moodler can give an instant snapshot of everyone in the network and the mood they’re in. Moodler has a unique polling feature… Read More »

PR agency Mirror Communications has released the “The Social Media Newbie’s Guide to Twitter for Businesses,” a simple guide helping companies and freelancers get started on the popular social network and to help them get the best businesses outcome out of the time invested in tweeting. In order to show businesses and individuals how to… Read More »

Interest in Twitter Inc from both Facebook and Google has placed the value of the micro-blogging site at around $10 billion. That’s insane — and dangerous, say analysts. Both Facebook and Google have considered purchasing Twitter for mind-boggling amounts of money, reports the Wall Street Journal — a fact some consider telltale of a new… Read More »

A small study by a trending company shows that Facebook addiction is one of the fastest growing searches related to addiction. It is more popular than searches for sex or cigarette addiction. While we already knew that social networks like Facebook produce drugged-up, sex-crazed teenagers, new research shows that Facebook addiction may be soon be… Read More »

In 2010 Facebook surprised a lot of people when they overtook Google as the most visited website in the world. This got a lot of people wondering what is next for social media and, with the power that social media clearly has on the internet, how can other websites use social media and social networking… Read More »

Social networking sites are on the rise and investors are taking notes. And this year, some of the Internet’s good old boys were outdone by Facebook. Facebook is set to end its year on a high note. A recent study from securities firm Nyppex found that the social networking site’s value jumped 56 percent in… Read More »

Twitter has released several lists of the most popular topics on the social network in 2010. Good news for girls, Justin Bieber made the list! Despite the fact that there are 18 days left in the year, Twitter has released its top 10 trending topics of the year, and a bunch more in different categories…. Read More »

Facebook and Twitter are continuing to host official WikiLeaks accounts, but have removed those of Operation Payback, and one member may have been arrested in the Netherlands. We reported yesterday that Twitter had closed the Operation Anon account shortly after it initiated DDoS attacks on Visa and Mastercard, and Facebook shortly followed the lead. However,… Read More »

Dwolla has introduced a new payment system that allows users to send money to each other through Facebook and Twitter. Paying people to be your friends online just got a whole lot easier. Dwolla, a peer to peer payment platform, has just announced that its service is now available in all 50 U.S. states and… Read More »