Facebook hires Google executive
Facebook has hired Google executive Sheryl Sandberg as chief operating officer. By Mark Sweney
The Sims Online becomes EA-Land
The Sims Online is offered a breath of life and a set of spanking new features.
FT launches £2k-a-year networking site
The Financial Times is launching a social networking service for top executives in the media and technology sectors with membership costing up to £2,000 per year. By Mark Sweney
The future is networked: what does that mean for networking?
The future of the computer game is as an online, connected, social networked public service. But what social networking tools would get your non-gaming mate involved?
Gridrunner hits Facebook
yet more retro-gaming pleasure courtesy of Eidos and an ancient Jeff Minter shooter...
Facebook sees first dip in UK users
Facebook has suffered its first fall in UK users, with a 5% drop between December and January, according to new figures. By Mark Sweney
Are you spending Valentine’s Day in Second Life?
The 3D online environment is a gathering place for real-life and virtual couples and singles, with an in-world events calendar is packed with Valentine-themed social functions
MySpace wins domain name fight
MySpace has won the right to have the MySpace.co.uk domain name despite another firm having registered it six years before the social networking website launched. By Mark Sweney
Making the global village a reality
You will be able to do anything from reading your paper to meeting friends from Australia, from the top of a 19 bus, says Victor Keegan
Is Facebook’s Scrabble game going to disappear?
It might, because Hasbro, the toymaker which owns the rights to the famous board game in the US and Canada, has served a shutdown notice on the site which provides the Scrabulous feature to Facebook
Social sites develop a social conscience
Online meeting spaces have dominated web news but they're not the only - let alone the most useful - social sites on the block, says Victor Keegan
Dork talk
Much ink, electronic and atomic, has been expended on the subject of social networking and web 2.0. First, let's decide on how this last is pronounced
Would-be students checked on Facebook
A Cambridge University admissions tutor has admitted he checks up on students applying to his college by browsing their Facebook profiles. Jessica Shepherd and David Shariatmadari