I can only imagine the angst that Jessica Vascellero at the Wall Street Journal inserted into countless minds this evening with her article about the difficulties people are having defining what is and isn’t a “friend” for online social networking purposes.
Most Americans who aren’t teenagers or a little older are just getting used to the [...]

Facebook is the social network of choice for millions of people, but like any site out there, we all have our own list of improvements we’d like to see. Luckily the Greasemonkey script community feels the same way and has come up with hundreds of scripts to improve your user experience. 
The scripts allow you to [...]

Mark Ghuneim is the Founder/CEO of digital marketing agency and technology incubator Wiredset and social media tracking service Trendrr.
It’s the time of year when people from many parts of the earth take time off to eat, drink and be merry, or something like it. But just how excited is the social media universe about the [...]

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, it was behind our backs and we almost never found out [...]

If you’re home for the holidays but looking for a change in ‘09, you’ve come to the right place. Mashable’s job boards are currently open for business and we at Mashable firmly believe that one of the lucky recipients of a new job can be you. This week and every week, Mashable will [...]

Virtual gifts have been fairly popular on social networks like Facebook, which offers a library of hundreds of gifts, most of which sell for a dollar (a few of them are free). But these gifts are generally all tied to the network they were purchased on, which means you can’t display the same giftbox [...]

According to the latest government data, China now has 253 million Internet users, due to recent sharp growth - 56 percent from last year. The inevitable has happened: China now has more Internet users than the USA, which is at 223.1 million with 71% online penetration. The fact that the Chinese government is exercising very [...]

The race is on between sites like Hulu and Joost to bring video content to the web, but as this content becomes more ubiquitous it will be the sites that go beyond basic video streaming that will ultimately be able to differentiate themselves. Watercooler, a development house behind several hundred community-based social network applications, [...]

Workstir is a relatively new site you might not be immediately familiar with; it’s a service for submitting work requests for everything from home repairs to web design, where people looking for work can then browse those listings and submit bids. The site just implemented Facebook Connect, and it’s a great example of what [...]

When baby needs to blog, and in this day and age it seem almost a life necessity with babies twittering from the cradle, where does mommy turn for a child and parent-friendly site for micro and macro baby publishing?
We’ve put together a short list of some of the trendiest budding baby sites, but only a [...]