The effort aims to make it easier for programmers to include social networking functions on websites and Web apps -- and for new social networks to launch. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

With today’s news of a new leadership team for Mastodon, I thought it would be a good time to take stock of the state of the open social web. I’m not new to this space, or an impartial observer: I ...

Computers have changed how Americans do almost everything. Soon they may alter national security. There is much more on the information superhighway these days than information. There is a traffic jam ...

A definitive definition of a Web 2.0 “Social Network” is as hard to come by as a definitive definition of Web 2.0 itself. Tim Berners-Lee recently noted (see “Evolving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0”) the ...

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The buzz about Web services has turned to discussions about the added security risks they pose. According to Gartner, Web services is about “moving application integration into firewall-evading ...

Online social networks and blogs are becoming the communication medium of choice for millions of professionals around the world. While the reasons for social networking are vast — to stay in touch ...

A Mountain View, Calif., company is launching a platform designed to let developers create telephony applications they can embed in Web pages and existing Web-based services. Ribbit Corp.’s back-end ...