Goldman Sachs among backers for business networking site LinkedIn
Business social networking website LinkedIn has secured $22.7m in funding from companies including Goldman Sachs. By Mark Sweney
The former insider who became an internet guerrilla
Tom Steinberg has shown the government what a joined-up web presence is through his work for the MySociety charity
MySpace has high hopes for MyAds
New cost-per-click advertising system available to all MySpace users goes live today
Indie labels cry foul at MySpace Music launch
The launch of MySpace's long-awaited music service has provoked a furious reaction from independent record labels, which accused it of leaving them out in the cold. By Owen Gibson
LinkedIn launches advertising network
Business social networking site LinkedIn has created an advertising network to let partner publishers identify LinkedIn users and target them across hundreds of sites. By Jemima Kiss
A cheap camcorder in every pocket
From expensive niche product to ubiquitous tool for social networking, the video camera has become a gadget for everyone, says Sean Dodson
Small World that may be getting too big
Users of invitation-only networking site fear it is no longer suitably exclusive
Facebook grows UK team to sell new engagement ads
By Robert Andrews
Scrabulous and Tris go down: is there a lawyer in the house?
The last couple of days have seen two well-liked, but extremely familiar, games bite the dust thanks to threatened legal action from corporate heavyweights...
Facebook: Children evade social websites’ age limits
A new poll suggests that more than 750,000 children are illicitly using Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. By John Carvel
The danger of the summer’s ‘splash mob’ craze
Once it was an innocent trickle from a small plastic water pistol or a water-filled balloon. Then came the water-fight arms race
Proof! Just six degrees of separation between us
After checking 30 billion electronic messages, Microsoft researchers say the theory stands up
Scrabulous has been replaced with Wordscraper
If you can no longer play Scrabulous on Facebook, there's now more than one alternative
An alternative way to play with real-world problems
What began as a marketing tool has now become a lot more useful: playing with alternate realities can solve real problems