Facebook is so last year – welcome to the hit websites of 2008
Virtual pets, video diaries and travellers' logs could be the next stars of cyberspace. By Bobbie Johnson
We play this… stylishly
Stylish and sophisticated, but can it last in the face of a legion of fanbois?
Facebook is like Hotel California, but you might want to leave
Andrew Brown: I decided to leave Facebook when I discovered that its latest advertising gimmick sent information about members' purchases on other sites to Facebook even when they were not logged on
Mature dating website, WLTM funky young networker for mutually stimulating liaison
Dating website Match.com offers 'Little Black Book' application to Facebook users to help them find potential partners. By Katie Allen
Twenty-eight people ask Hugh MacLeod to be their friend each day. What’s so special about him?
Answer: he may be Britain's most successful Facebooker
Hammer is back – with a premiere on MySpace
The first production from the recently revived Hammer Films, Beyond the Rave, will debut on MySpace in a series of 20 four-minute 'webisodes'. By Owen Gibson
Facebook apologises for mistakes over advertising
The founder of Facebook has apologised to the website's 57 million devotees for its handling of a controversial advertising feature. By Andrew Clark
Xbox goes networking
New features on Microsoft's XBox 360 online service mean more playfriends.
Police arrest teenager over virtual theft
Police in the Netherlands have arrested a teenager suspected of stealing virtual objects inside a popular social networking site, it has emerged
Playing games with Facebook: the future of virtual worlds
Facebook apps of commercial games are popular, but most are poor examples of integration. All, that is, except one.
Microsoft stake in Facebook values site at $15bn
Little more than three years after its birth in a Harvard University dormitory, the social networking website Facebook has become one of the most expensive internet start-ups in history, with a valuation of $15bn (£7.3bn) under a financing deal with the software group Microsoft.
I’m in a maze of twisty social sites, all alike
Aleks Krotoski: The only thing I can see is an angry gnome with something sharp and shiny in his left hand.