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Social psychologists classify mutually beneficial relationships as either communal or exchange. In a communal relationship, participants are concerned with one another's welfare—think of family and close friends. An exchange relationship is all about what you get out of it, the kind of amicable alliance one forges with a client or bartender.

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It was only three months ago that Facebook announced that it had reached 200 million users worldwide. Today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social network has passed 250 million active users. And back in January it was just 150 million.

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Virginia Kuhn made some cool comments: "From Twelve Horses to health care providers to technology-innovative start ups in San Jose, every CEO said the same thing: we need personnel who are flexible, who know how to be resourceful, who have tech skills but

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Jeremiah Owyang -- who used to be over with John Furrier's PodTech and recently moved to Forrester has an awesome post on Twitter and its uses. Serious comment hashing as well. Checkit.

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Cool branding move Microsoft. Gaping Void's sharp-toothed blue monster/ tagline, “Microsoft – change the world or go home” is a good move. “People see Microsoft as a big, bad corporate monster,” Mr MacLeod said. “Yet all the Microsofties I’

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Professionals pushing 40 and older are joining the college crowd on the social hub. Can CEO Zuckerberg's team give them reason to stick around?

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Newsweek coverstory on Facebook. A must read for the business professional. LinkedIn is not dead (yet?). Facebook is alive and kicking.

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What does everyone think of Pownce, a social-networking service that combines messaging with file-sharing? It's Kevin Rose's latest startup. For the time being, only those with invitations this new site.

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This morning I made the decision to focus all of my professional business social networking contacts to be on Facebook. That means that I am no longer going to accept new LinkedIn requests. After spending the past few months using Facebook, I no longer se

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“What is your Facebook Strategy?” is a question I asked of 19 different early stage hi-tech startups during meetings that I had last week in Tel Aviv. For the exception of two of them, none of the startups had one. And none of the other more establish

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Jeff Pulver continues to document his reasons to believe that Facebook is the killer social networking app - no wait -- PLATFORM of 2007

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This eighth annual event, which is themed “Sustainability & Authenticity: Marketing Your Destination’s Unique Character,” will address issues critical to tourism, including geotourism, social media and brand building. Speakers at the event include J

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These researchers have developed some really cool ways of visualizing activity on Wiki. This stuff is sooooper cool. It's the future. Too much data requires better viz tools. This is hot.

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The news-sharing Web site faces a painful choice: allow user content that courts legal woes, or risk losing users?and content

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Somebody beat me to the punch on articulating what frustrates me about Twitter. Great post!

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Wikis and blogs may be all the rage in the business press, but a new survey indicates that companies are hedging their bets

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Why the social-media revolution will go out with a whimper

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Maybe it’s because I started my career in the community newspaper business, but for whatever reason I love local news. When I travel I make a point of seeking out small papers in tiny communities across the world and voraciously devour all the details o

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Since becoming a founding member of the Reno-Tahoe Young Professionals (YPN) and witnessing first-hand the growing base of regulars at the monthly events, I’ve been curious to peek in on the already established social networking group in Sin City. The V

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This is a real test of the blogosphere. Our culture and openness. We don't know all the facts, but there is enough to be disgusted. We do know that part of this involves real core and dedicated bloggers. We do know that this involves trolls, there will al

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