The Social Networking Weblog

ARS TECHNICA – Aug 9 – Apple has decided to break into Web 2.0 as it launches a new set of blog/social networking web widgets called My iTunes. My iTunes embeds little widgets on your blog, MySpace pa…

THE NETWORK GARDEN — July 6 — SNAPP Free provides a free community building system Google ad revenue sharing, 50/50. It's the 'Un-MySpace' where communities are vertically focused. Examp…

Some of the social networking sites have events posting. It's kind of like a calendar where you can post events you are doing or join in events that other people are doing. The cool thing is You c…

So, the secret is out. Jonathan Abrams new startup, Socializr, is in Gamma. Whatever that means. Liz at GigaOm has the scoop. But, Steve Poland discovered a way into the site. The site itself looks a …

A few sites I've covered here in the event software space have some news.

1. Kiko has sold to the highest bidder on eBay for $285k. (Previous coverage.)

2. HeyLetsGo is rocking along. They got…

I've been covering the intersection between event and social networking arena here.

Upcoming.org started as a way for regular people to enter events and share them with their friends. They are st…

TechCrunch's Marshal Kirkpatrick covers CityCita. Marshall is unimpressed:

As far as I'm concerned, marketing of the service so far has not been good. In early outreach to bloggers, the comp…

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 o…

Matthew McNeely also demonstrated his service at the Web Innovator's Forum. Matt has built a service called Find Free Time. Find Free Time is very similar in purpose to Meet with Approval, which I…

In my earlier reading and exploration of Google calendar, I missed some important impacts that the Google Calendar API will most likely have. Greg Sterling is to the rescue with some keen insights:

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