Quora: the hottest question-and-answer website you’ve probably never heard of

Quora, the innovative site begun by former Facebook staffers, sees its popularity explode – and it looks set to get bigger

SEC may force Facebook flotation

Facebook might be forced by US regulators to take the social networking company public as new investors pile in

Facebook investor DST comes with ties to Alisher Usmanov and the Kremlin

DST was founded by Yuri Milner and Gregory Finger in 2005 and the company initially bought 2% of Facebook for £200m in 2009

MySpace ‘set to cut up to 50% of staff’

Struggling social network seeks to cut costs as parent News Corp explores selloff, according to reports. By Jemima Kiss

Facebook began as a geek’s hobby. Now it’s more popular than Google

Half of all those online have visited the social networking site. Soon it may become synonymous with the web itself, reports Jemima Kiss

Facebook’s value swells to $50bn after Goldman Sachs investment

Deal underlines Facebook's power and fuels rumours that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing a stock market flotation

‘I took my kids offline’

When Susan Maushart imposed a six-month ban on technology in her home, she expected the children to rebel. But they embraced the experiment – and even claim to have enjoyed it

They’ve shaped the internet, but can designers save the newspaper?

Justin McGuirk: We can see design thinking at work in web phenomena such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, but the predicament of printed news remains an unsolved problem

Facebook in China: Connecting with 1bn people – and the censors

Josh Halliday: Disputes between the Chinese state and private internet companies are entirely political – as are their solutions

Lord chief justice approves use of Twitter for court reporting

Guidance follows district judge's decision to allow tweeting of bail hearing for Julian Assange earlier this month

Catfish – review

Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost's modern-day tale of deception, which purports to be a documentary, is one of the year's most intriguing pictures, says Philip French

HMU – the status update sweeping Facebook like wildfire

Lots of fantastical theories as to what it means – but the reality's just plain dull

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg named Time magazine’s person of the year

The Facebook co-founder named Time's person of the year 'for changing how we all live our lives'

This column will change your life: With friends like these…

We all know not to judge a book by its cover, so why do we take people we 'meet' on social networking sites at face value, wonders Oliver Burkeman