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New York - Google on Friday launched OpenSocial, a common platform for developers of social websites, in a direct challenge to Facebook and its thousands of software applications.

Seattle, WA-based 3Guppies extends social media sharing beyond the web to the cell phone. US users can share their MySpace and facebook videos and photos with friends - the 3Guppies facebook application was recently launched and has been tested on a dozen US carriers

While Alice Mathias may have overplayed the frivolous uses of Facebook for college students in her article called The Fakebook Generation published in the Grey Lady a few weeks ago, she was certainly correct in saying that Facebook lost a certain je ne sais quoi for students when it opened up to the real world last fall.

Slide which is already implemented on Hi5, a movie application running on Ning from Flixster and a tool running on SalesForce.com based on the OpenSocial API by Theikos for viewing co-worker’s clients to help with sales contacts. Plaxo also has a tool built on the API’s to create and view profiles which like all of these aforementioned tools can work on any social networking site supporting the OpenSocial framework without rewriting them, and only minor changes to the look and feel t...

Alex and Seb Cater were swamped with female attention after setting up a profile, entitled "Who wants to marry the Cater brothers, now we're millionaires?'', on social networking website Facebook.

A Facebook group, dubbed UCC fights, that featured videos of area high school students fighting, is down for the count. Attempts on Friday to access the group on the popular social networking site, which contained several videos of teens brawling, were unsuccessful a day after a story by The Chatham Daily News exposed the group's graphic content.

NEW YORK-Google on Friday launched OpenSocial, a common platform for developers of social websites, in a direct challenge to Facebook and its thousands of software applications.

All it took was a few minutes for one Wall Street Journal reporter to become completely hooked on Facebook. WSJ's Matthew Rose talks about his experience on Facebook and why it's so addictive.

On Election Day, when more than 100 Minnesota school districts ask voters for increased property tax levies or bond money, recent graduates hope their campaigning pays off.

until getting a release yesterday about it celebrating the registering of more than a million users via its Facebook application, which launched three months ago. The service hooks up with your iTunes library and scraps together any versions of the songs it can find hosted online, while taking advantage of your iTunes XML file to include such niceties as play counts and the last time you listened a song.