With so many new social services rising up, it’s hard to keep them all straight, let alone, take the time to try each of them out. However, one new social service takes a little different approach by aggregating data from …

We recently reported on a new feature Google unveiled for the +1 button: recommendations. When you hover over the button on a site, it will now recommend other content on that site based on +1′s, providing a way for users …

Really, the image above says it all. Combined, Twitter’s U.S. user base talks about beer a lot more than it talks about church. Floating Sheep (via io9) decided to look at some Twitter conversation around the U.S. to analyze where …

Earlier, Twitter hinted at a big search overhaul to come, and now the company has unveiled what exactly that entails. First, Twitter is launching search autocomplete and “people you follow” search results to Twitter.com. “In addition to recent improvements like …

As recently reported, Randy Blythe, vocalist for the metal band Lamb of God, was arrested and charged with manslaughter, after an incident at a show, where an audience member was injured, and later died from those injuries. Blythe was detained …

Google is working on making Google+ more accessible. The company announced that it is launching a new app called Hangout Captions to help inegrate live transcription into Google+ Hangouts. The following update from Google just hit Google+: Hangout Captions26 minutes …

While there is nothing inherently masculine about the way in which Google+ operates, we’ve seen time and time again that the demographic breakdown heavily favors men. Similarly, there’s nothing inherently feminine about the using Pinterest, but girls have flocked to …

With all the social media hype around Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, online forums are not usually at the top of the list. Ironically though, they are at the very root of social media. They may not get as much attention …

Google Places for iOS got a significant makeover yesterday, complete with a name change. In keeping with their plan to foist Google+ upon as many of their users as possible, Google Places is now Google+ Local. The update, rolled out …

You can’t believe everything you see on the interwebs. That goes double for anything you see on a breaking news site that allows average Joes to post stories without the intervening hand of….well, anyone. So, despite what you may have …

Geek celebrity Wil Wheaton is what you might call a Google+ power user. He’s actively engaged on Google’s social network, and has amassed 1,373,118 followers to date. That’s a lot for Google+. Google, however, keeps doing things with Google+ that …

These days, brick and mortar businesses displaying some kind of signage saying “Like us on Facebook,” are nearly as common as those displaying Visa and MasterCard logos. That’s worth considering, when you think about using Faceabook as a way to …

It’s the digital age, and everyone–and I mean everyone–has a smartphone or tablet or similar to keep them jacked in at all times, and so many people are living out every moment of their lives over social media that no …

While debates about issues related to women in the workforce rage, one thing is certain: women continue to be woefully underrepresented in certain fields. Specifically, only a fraction of graduates in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, medicine) fields are women. …

Well, that was fast. Facebook has pulled their new Find Friends Nearby feature. Introduced over the weekend, Find Friends Nearby allowed users to easily add people near them to their friends list. All you had to do was open the …

As previously reported, Friendthem CEO Charles Sankowich is saying that his company is going to sue Facebook over a new feature the company has rolled out, called, “Find Friends Nearby“. The feature comes from Facebook’s recent acquisition of social discovery …

In little-to-no-chance-of-shocking-you news, parents are fairly oblivious when it comes to what their kids are doing online. McAfee just released the results of their annual Teen Internet Behavior study, and the takeaway is that parents severely underestimate what their kids …

Over the weekend, Facebook rolled out a new feature called Find Friends Nearby. It enables you to discover people around you and make new friends. It sounds like your basic social discovery functionality (the huge trend at SXSW this year). …

“If we can all laugh together, so many things are possible,” George Takei tells me. Indeed, amidst all of the varied uses of social media – the real-time sharing of information, connecting with strangers, stalking your ex – one seems …

Sound the “Google+ is dead” alarm. Larry Page hasn’t posted a public update since May 25. Just in case it isn’t crystal clear, I was being sarcastic. Paul McNamara at NetworkWorld posted today that Google CEO Larry Page “isn’t” using …

On Thursday, Twitter experienced a massive amount of downtime for all web users, and mobile users were experiencing some additional problems. Twitter had initially updated its status blog to say, “Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are …