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Ning Gets In On the OpenSocial Initiative

Ning has followed in the footsteps of other social networking services like MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, and started to integrate with Google Code initiative OpenSocial, the platform that "defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites."

Facebook Continuing To Grow In The UK

Forget eBay, YouTube, Bebo, and the BBC.  When it comes to the most visited websites in the UK, Facebook's topped them all.  According to new Hitwise data, the fast-growing social network only sits behind Google UK.

GM CEO Takes Message To YouTube

Let’s annoy you by understating it and call these “uncertain” economic times. While it’s unclear what a tumultuous economy means for online business—after all, there was no Internet in the Great Depression—old standby General Motors saw its stock drop the lowest it’s been in half a century.

Facebook Launches Microsoft Live Search Integration...

Facebook temporarily launched Microsoft Live Search integration with its site before removing it a short time later. It's unclear why the feature has been removed, but the post announcing it on the Facebook Blog was removed as well, so I'm guessing it wasn't quite ready for primetime, and they goofed.

MySpace, Facebook Top Mobile Social Networks

Close to half (46%) of those who use social networks have visited a social network by using their mobile phone, according to ABI Research.The majority (70%) have visited MySpace and another 67 percent have visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15 percent mobile adoption.

Facebook Cofounder Finds The Door

Given the documented-to-death problems with our economy, now's not the best time for companies to show signs of weakness.  Unfortunately for Facebook, two key employees are leaving to start their own enterprise.

Friendster Gets Friendly with Facebook

Friendster announced today that it is now supporting both Facebook and Opensocial apps. Integration with these has now become part of the Friendster Developer Program, though they've been supporting OpenSocial since August.

Facebook Shares to Be Sold in Less Than a Month

Back in August, information surfaced indicating that Facebook would begin allowing its employees to sell some of their shares in the company this fall. Now, a date has been set for this to begin, and that date is the 1st of November.

Facebook Finds a Home for International Affairs

Tanáiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade & Employment, Mary Coughlan TD announced today that Facebook is making Dublin the location of its international headquarters.From there, they will run all of their international operations and provide support to Facebook users in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Facebook Redesign, Not Bad

 Last night, my husband was logging in to Facebook when he noticed something was different.