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Six Apart just released a new Moveable Type, so I wanted to find out what was up cause it really has a lot of great services that help people communicate. From LiveJournal, which is used by people to talk with their social networks, to Vox, which is a blog ...

Trutap is a new mobile social networking application whose aim is let people stay connected with friends. Company CEO Doug Richard demonstrated the tool for the Mercury News at the recent TechCrunch40 conference.

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Charlene Li, senior analyst with Forrester Research, talks with John Ince about how social networks are creating new forms of economic and social power for users. She advises would be investors to spread their bets widely in relatively small traunches. She sees the most promise in platforms that enable consumer ...

Charlene Li, senior analyst with Forrester Research, talks with John Ince about how social networks are evolving in unexpected ways, and how difficult it is to predict the future in an atmosphere of such rapid innovation. She suggests one significant trend, however, will be the broadening of the concept of ...

Press reports over the past sevearl years have caused some to question whether it’s safe for teenagers to use MySpace, the world’s leading social networking site. But about a year-and-a-half ago, the company hired a safety czar. Hemanshu Nigam, who had a similar role at Microsoft after a career as ...

Keynotes from two Intel executives — David (Dadi) Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher — kicked off Day 2 at Intel’s Fall IDF in San Francisco. First up, Dadi Perlmutter, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Mobility Group. He covered the latest trends in mobile computing, touching on ...

Is the Internet dead? Listen in as LSI networking experts Jas Tremblay, director of Enterprise and SMB Solutions, and Mark Wilson, director of Network and Systems Applications, discuss bandwidth, traffic management, and networking technologies designed to breathe life back into the internet. The conversation focuses on bandwidth restriction issues, ...

Companies with retail stores, branch offices or other remote locations will be able to easily and cost-effectively upgrade company networks serving those locations, using a variety of new service options from Verizon Business. In this podcast, Chip Freund, Verizon Business’ director of managed services product marketing, discusses how Verizon ...

Bangalore-based startup Babajob is a social networking site with a few interesting wrinkles. I recently met with Sean Blagsvedt, co-founder of Babalife in Bangalore, to find out about Babajob. A few weeks ago the company released its first private beta version of their service.

A kind of LinkedIn for villages ...

Jeremiah Owyang speaks with Mary Alice Colvin, senior marketing consultant and Kendrick Efta, founder and practice manager of Allyis, at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit in Portland in July 2007.

Social networking is important to many corporations, but adoption can quickly be segmented by digital natives and digital immigrants. ...

Sameer Sisodia is a cofounder of Ziva Software, the makers of Zook, a mobile search service. Its an interesting company that is incubated at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Ziva Software has built the world’s first Mobile Social Answer Engine. The mobile answer engine delivers precise answers ...

Charlene Li (Senior Analyst, Forrester Research) hosted a discussion group during the 2007 Stanford Summit AlwaysOn conference. During the discussion she initiated several questions to Chris DeWolfe (CEO, MySpace), Dustin Moskowitz (Co-Founder, Facebook), Richard Rosenblatt (CEO, Demand Media), Gina Bianchini (CEO, Ning) and ...

Nikki Martinez and Oren Jaffe started EcoTuesday as a chill networking event for Green business folk to interact with each other. Structure is the key to networking success at EcoTuesday. The event opens with speakers from various green backgrounds - a good topic to spark conversations later. Next, everyone ...

Larry Magid is pretty upset about the way some states’ attorneys general are blaming MySpace for the fact that there are pedophiles and other predators on the site, and proposing legislation that would restrict kids’ access to social networking sites. There are predators everywhere. The good news is that MySpace ...

Research analyst Adam Wright says a new study by Paris-based Ipsos Insight Research shows that social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Mixi and Cyworld have emerged as major factors in the culture of communication for adults around the world.

Even in lesser-developed markets, video sharing and on-line capability is affecting ...

Gregory Cypes and Kevin Lawver from AOL hosted an open discussion from MashUp Camp IV and the Computer History Museum. Art in Social Networking is the basis for success across several social Websites. Cypes and Lawver open the floor to what works in the social networking arena. ...

Social networking is at the heart of many of the services and sites on the Internet these days. If your business has a community you will probably want a social network of your own. That is exactly what Leverage Software does, they create private-labelled social networks. I spoke with ...

Velvet Puffin is a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it keeps running after you close your browser. Here, R. Chandrasekar demonstrates it for me and you.

R. Chandrasekar, CEO and co-founder of Velvet Puffin, shows me a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it’ll keep running after the browser gets closed. We talk about his new company here and what Velvet Puffin is trying to do.

Kallol Borah is the founder and CEO of Aumega Networks, a software infrastructure company with a presence in India, UK and Japan. Aumega Networks licenses software development kits for software-as-a-service computing (SaaS) — especially peer-to-peer software services.

The company’s technology enables implementation of application services that are network and ...

Sam Sethi is a London-based technology entrepreneur and consultant. Sam recently launched BlogNation, a worldwide network of blogs focusing on Web 2.0, mobile and enterprise startup space in 22 countries around the world (except the United States).

Sam was known in the blogosphere for the good coverage he did at ...

It’s not every day you get to hack your dinner with an anarchist, computer whiz, chef — unless you are one like Marc Powell. We had the pleasure of attending a Unicorn Precinct 13 Supper Club and hanging out for a bit before the cooking frenzy. Marc shares ...