The SocialCNET News' Caroline McCarthy is a downtown Manhattanite who believes that, despite popular opinion, the Web can actually help your social life. She's happily addicted to fun social-media tools from Twitter to Yelp to Facebook.MTV Networks buys Social Project platform- September 22, 2008 NEW YORK--Viacom division MTV Networks announced Monday that it has turned its minority stake in software company Social Platform into a full acquisition: Social Project, formerly known as Tagworld, is the basis for Viacom's Flux. MTV Networks launched Flux just over a year ago as a social-networking platform that ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10047593-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... Sugar Inc. launches OnSugar blogging platform- September 22, 2008 Women's blog network Sugar Inc. has made a surprise move: it's giving users access to its platform so that they can create their own blogs. The San Francisco-based company made the announcement through a post on its tech blog, Geeksugar. The new system, called OnSugar, promises a "sweet ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10047459-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... Web leaders on economy: Keep calm and carry on- September 19, 2008 NEW YORK--The crowds at the Web 2.0 Expo seem to have one clear consensus on what they think of this week's Wall Street meltdown: things are bad, but it's no time to panic. Of course, they're all pretty relieved that the tech industry can't be blamed for this economic meltdown. "This is a very good time to start up a company," investor David Rose of the New York Angels firm said in a panel called Starting Up in Silicon Alley. "Despite the calamities that are going on outside, the world is...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10046532-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... Zuckerberg: 'Change can be difficult,' but the redesign stays- September 18, 2008 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has caught on to the fact that a sizeable handful of his 100-million-plus users say they aren't too thrilled with the site's new redesign. But he won't change anything, as Facebook occasionally has in the face of ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10045887-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy- September 18, 2008 NEW YORK--Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, is known as a futurist, but his keynote address on Thursday morning at the Web 2.0 Expo was heavy on the realism in the wake of sobering news from Wall Street. Web 2.0 evangelist Tim O&39;Reilly addresses ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10045321-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... BuzzLogic's ad network exits beta- September 18, 2008 BuzzLogic, a start-up that tracks "influence" across the confusing blog landscape, has pushed its ad network out of beta to a full release. The "Conversation Ad Network" debuted in beta mode in June and uses BuzzLogic's influence-tracking technology as a way to draw in both advertisers and bloggers. Advertisers ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10045140-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... Idealism for New York tech, from VC Fred Wilson- September 17, 2008 NEW YORK--"We are not an alley." So said venture capitalist Fred Wilson of at the Web 2.0 Expo here in his keynote entitled "New York's Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent." A longtime leader in Gotham's culture of digital innovation, Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, gave a short "history lesson" to the hordes of conference attendees, many of whom had come from hundreds of miles away. And the term "Silicon Alley," he said, is one that the city should shake off. "We are..http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10044540-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... IBM opens 'social software' development center- September 17, 2008 Longtime tech mainstay IBM has announced the creation of a Cambridge, Mass.-based research center for the development of "social software," from consumer Web apps to enterprise communication tools. At its launch, researchers from Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters' health care division have agreed to be "corporate residents" in the ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10044289-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... Ad agencies team up on social-media standards- September 17, 2008 Gather, a niche social network that caters to adults looking for in-depth online discussions, is at the center of the formation of a new ad industry group dedicated to developing standards for social-media advertising. (Credit: Social Media Advertising Council) Called the Social Media Advertising Council, or SMAC, the group encompasses ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10044240-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... Brian Solis: 'There is no viral marketing'- September 17, 2008 NEW YORK--Blogger and new-media publicist Brian Solis struck down one of the biggest marketing buzz terms of the past few years in a panel on Wednesday morning at the Web 2.0 Expo here. "There is no 'viral marketing' per se," Solis said, referring to the marketing trend of creating ...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10044152-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocia... |