A return to silos – the big Web 2.0 joke

As we have moved along the timeline of what we refer to as Web 2.0 and social media one of the big standbys of the movement has been that of openness and transparency. At the ... continue

Apple Store: No More Facebook For You

Apple has put the kibosh on Facebook usage in its U.S. retail stores, according to recently published online reports. Apparently, Facebook surfing was eating up too much computer time in Apple Stores. It's a similar situation to ... continue

MySpace sex offenders migrating to Facebook

Some of the 90,000 sex offenders banned from MySpace have headed to Facebook, according to an expert. Internet security firm Sentinel have found over 8,000 known sex offenders on Facebook, and believe the true number could be as ... continue

SocialMedia Networks Snags $6 Million

Social media advertising firm SocialMedia Networks has secured $6 million in fresh funding this Friday. The Series B dough comes from IDG Ventures SF and Charles River Ventures. SocialMedia Networks serves ads in about 5,000 different applications on ... continue

Meebo Unveils Support For MySpace and Facebook IM

Meebo is on quite a roll this year. The messaging service announced a deal Friday in which it'll bring Facebook and MySpace IM capabilities into its meebo.com interface. It's the first company to offer such an option ... continue

Drunken Pirate or college degree – which do you pick?

Sarah Perez has a post over on ReadWriteWeb that has been kind of bothering me for most of the day. The way the story goes is this woman goes to a party woman puts on a pirate hat woman has ... continue

Lindsay Lohan Continues To Slam Beakup Rumors

Lindsay Lohan has addressed rumors of her breakup with Samantha Ronson, this time on her MySpace. We asked for more info, and we got it. This was characteristically succinct for Linds, but as long as it's not ... continue

MySpace Suicide verdict: Lori Drew guilty of lesser charges

A Federal Jury in Los Angeles hearing the MySpace suicide case has found Lori Drew guilty of three minor offenses. The MySpace Suicide made headlines last year after it was disclosed that a Missouri teenager Megan Meier ... continue

Say goodbye to anonymity on the web

There is a court case going on in the United States that could potentially make everyone with an alias or an anonymous account at any of the many social media sites a criminal. Anyone following the Lori ... continue

Courtney Love Blogs Furiously

What was Courtney Love doing this weekend, you ask? I just happen to have the answer for you, and it's kind of like what we do at The Inquisitr except, erm, she's almost entirely incoherent: blogging 60+ ... continue

Obama wins in hi5.com and MySpace

A global survey conducted by hi5.com among its members revealed that 83% favors Senator Barack Obama as the next president of the United States of America. Although Obama had a substantial lead in all parts of the world, ... continue

RSS Adoption Stalling Because It Isn’t Joe Six Pack Enough

First it's the economy in a tailspin. Then it's web advertising heading for a decline and even people trying to figure out if lifestreaming is going to be the sperm that gives birth to the next generation ... continue