It seems that Orkut's cooler brother Joga.com now gives users the option of uploading photo's to their album within Joga. This should make it easier for soccer fans (or football as it is known...

It seems as if the Google team has decided to advertise Joga.com within every orkut member's home page. Joga is a cooler version of Orkut and is a joint project of both Google and Nike. Having...

You Are 28% Addicted to Myspace Your Myspace addiction factor is: Low You're a typical casual Myspace user... you know what it's all about, but you haven't been sucked in (yet)! Are You...

Apparently spammers have decided to make orkut their home territory for annoying users by filling up their scrap books with links towards pornography or "get rich quick" schemes. Google is...

I'm a little slow on this one. Riya has shifted strategy. They are now indexing the web to create a visual search engine. Munjal Shah, the founder of Riya, has more on his blog: Where are we...

I love startups that have blogs. It makes it so much easier to pay attention to what's going on with them. Judy's Book has recently launched a bunch of new features including the ability to...

Seth Godin has pointed out that Furl's most popular links are a result of somebody spamming the social bookmarking website: At first, the spam problem for things like Furl and Digg was about...

Christopher Leonard of YourSpins has submitted answers to my standard interview questions: What is YourSpins? YourSpins is a new kind of music community for fans who want to immerse themselves in...

Scott Karp has been obsessively covering myspace lately. And has a lot of interesting perspectives. He predicts the demise of the site. But, everything he says the media should be doing online,...

David Teten has a recap from Shawn Gold, SVP of Marketing for myspace. There's some interesting bragging points on David's post. What I find most "RIGHT ON" is Shawn's take on...

Unless you follow Jason Calacanis closely, you probably had no idea that AOL was launching a new version of Netscape that was to be a social bookmarking/social voting website. Jason, of course, denies...

Everyone wants their public events published on the local newspaper'w website and in the print edition. So, if you're trying to build a search engine for websites, you can scrape those sites...

Mike Yamamoto of CNET highlights an article that reports the NSA is mining data from social networking websites: Now, however, a much larger interested party has taken to scouring social networks in...

In a note from one of the founders, Mike Champion, he announced that Tourb.us has officially launched: We're proud to announce that tourb.us has just publicly launched what we believe is a better...

Chris Pirillo reports that Robert Scoble, the world's most famous corporate blogger, is leaving Microsoft and heading to PodTech.net. I haven't seen a confirmation from Scoble himself yet, so...

John Battelle, Greg Sterling and Garrett French have written critiques of merchant Circle, a new free listings tool for small businesses. Garrett was the first to highlight the social networking viral...

Greg Gershman, the founder of Blogdigger, has written a piece highlighting the confusion that myspace bloggers have about Technorati. Greg points to a myspace blogger, who's a bit pissed off: I am...

Phillip Lensen of Google Blogoscoped points out that Google may be webifying their a-little-while-ago acquired Picasa photo management software, to compete with flickr. Of course, not sure why anyone...

Apparently the engineers at Orkut have decided to disable users from posting hyper linked text. Users attempting to hyperlink text (example: [link=http://www.orkut.com]orkut[/link]) will come to a...