This is page 11 of the social media news archives.

Reuters Planning Financial Social Network (2007-03-02): The Guardian reports that Reuters is about to enter the social networking race with a niche subscriber-only social network for people for in the financial industry including "fund managers, traders and analysts.

Digg Unbans Domains and Improves Spam Fighting Technology (2007-02-24): Pronet Advertising has a list of domains that have been unbanned from Digg.

Senator Barack Obama Launches Social Network (2007-02-11): Senator Barack Obama recently announced that he will be running for president in 2008.

Digg Link Sends More Traffic Than Drudge Link Says L.A. Times (2007-02-11): An L.

Virtual Gifts as a Serious Business Model? (2007-02-08): Facebook has added virtual gift giving to its popular social network.

Technorati's WTF Means Where's the Fire (2007-01-31): Technorati may be building a memedigger type of feature for Technorati called WTF.

IBM to Launch Corporate Social Networking Software (2007-01-22): BusinessWeek reports that IBM is launching corporate social networking software called Lotus Connections.

Wikileaks: A Wiki for Whistleblowers (2007-01-21): The Syndney Morning Herald reports that a new wiki website called Wikileaks could make things considerably more difficult for corrupt governments and corporations by allowing whistleblowers an anonymous place for leaking confidential documents.

MySpace: A Place for Errors (2007-01-17): Baseline, a ZDNet website, has an interesting article by David Carr explaining how MySpace attempts to solve its scalability issues.

Lost MySpace Passwords Not a Concern For Some Teens (2007-01-11): Danah Boyd has an interesting post about how teenagers treat their social networking profiles and passwords.

Should Digg Fear Pligg? (2007-01-06): A post on Cornwall SEO asks if open source software products like the Pligg CMS could lead to the downfall of Digg.

Teens Seek Social Networks With Less Rules (2007-01-02): Are teens leaving MySpace for new social networks with less rules? The New York Times seems to think so.

Marmalade Instead of MySpace the Magazine (2006-12-19): There will be no MySpace the Magazine as was previously reported.

Bebo Top 2006 Search Term on Google? (2006-12-19): The most popular search term that people typed into Google for 2006 was "Bebo" according to the 2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist.

Conde Nast Flips Out Over MySpace (2006-12-19): The Wall Street Journal reports that Conde Nast, the publisher of a number of magazines including Vanity Fair, Vogue, Teen Vogue and Allure is launching a social networking site called Flip.

You Are Time's Person of the Year (2006-12-16): You are Time's new Person of the Year.

Facebook Now Not For Sale (2006-12-15): Facebook is a social network that became very popular by focusing on high school and college students.

Stupid User Generated Content Aggregators (2006-12-12): Are some of the most successful websites really just aggregators of massive amounts of stupid content and hideous templates? Aaron Swartz included a theory called "The Stupidity of Crowds" in his post on his Raw Thought blog about the habits of the most successful websites.

IAC Debuts Zwinky Avatar Service (2006-12-11): IAC, the holder of some major website including Ask.

Shawn Fanning Launches Social Network for Gamers (2006-12-01): Heather Green at Blogspotting reports that Napster creator Shawn Fanning is going to launch a virtual social nework for gamers called Rupture.