England teams up with Twitter, Facebook and YouTube ahead of Ashes summer

England and Wales Cricket Board teams up with Twitter and Facebook in attempt to widen fanbase

Breakfast briefing: Will Wright quits EA, Facebook blocks Pirate Bay

After aping evolution with his last game, Spore, Will Wright has confirmed that he will be leaving Electronic Arts to pursue a side project

Demi Moore twitters to avert suicide

Actor uses online messaging service Twitter to intervene in case of suicidal Californian woman

Stuck for a recipe? Just use Twitter and find a top chef

We challenge leading chefs to boil down their recipes to Twitter's 140-character limit

Home Office defends plan to monitor social network conversations

• Facebook and MySpace could be required to hold data about every person users chat with • Privacy campaigners condemn 'centralised snooping'

Twitter introduces text ads

Eagle-eyed Twitterers may have noticed very discreet and rather nicely designed ads creeping into the sidebar on profiles, but in very clever and useful format. By Jemima Kiss

Tell us, where are you exactly?

Location-based services is the major trend at this year's digital culture festival in Austin, Texas,

Reviews for the txt generation

Netbytes: Blippr lets users review books, movies, CDs and other products in 160 characters or less

Poke your MP into action

Derek Wyatt: I don't know whether social networking will get me re-elected, but if I can engage with constituents everyone benefits

Why isn’t my MP on Facebook?

Emily Bell: Most MPs don't seem to want connectivity with their electorate, avoiding useful channels such as Facebook, or even email

Facebook backtracks after online privacy protest

Site under unprecedented scrutiny for its policies on retention of personal data of 175 million users

Friends Reunited worth as little as £20m, say City analysts

Social networking site could be worth a fraction of the £175m ITV paid for it in 2005. By Mark Sweney