The photo-sharing app, which is often used to share unflattering or embarrassing “selfies,” has rolled out SnapKidz aimed at children under 13. By Aimee Lee Ball The company will add an instant ...

Google’s OpenSocial initiative to establish common, standard APIs for creating social-networking applications is still in its early days. But its impact for end users, developers, Web site owners, ...

Belatedly recognizing the importance of social networking as an online service and advertising vehicle, Google this week will unleash its strongest response yet to the rising threat and skyrocketing ...

In the last newsletter, we discussed the impact of widespread use of social networking in the workplace. This time, we’d like to take the discussion further with some additional examples. The ...

Google’s OpenSocial initiative to establish common, standard APIs for creating social-networking applications is still in its early days. But its impact for end-users, developers, Web site owners, ...

Large corporations seem to be tripping over themselves in their rush to tap into the social networking phenomenon by deploying their own versions of online user communities. But by trying to shoehorn ...

IDG News Service: Regarding the “balkanization” of APIs in general on the Web, do you plan to extend OpenSocial so that it contains open APIs for other types of Web applications — not just ...

Among the APIs in Real-Time Stream, which MySpace is opening up to developers, is much of the publicly accessible content millions of users publish to MySpace. According to MySpace, Google and the ...