It’s been two weeks since I launched SocialMedia.net and since then I’ve been trying to make one post a day. I just wanted to say thanks for all your feedback so far, and I hope that you will continue to find it of interest.

Here are links to and summaries of some of the recent posts:

Developers at Intel Corporation’s research lab at Berkeley have created the Mash Maker extension for Firefox. The blog post about Mash Maker says that the extension enables mashups to become part of your normal browsing experience - the aim being that mashups can be used by anyone, not just techies. The Mash Maker toolbar displays [...]

According to comparison figures from August 2007 released today by Nielsen//NetRatings, US teenagers aged 12 to 17 who visit both MySpace and Facebook spend more time at each site than those who visit just one site or the other. During that month, teens who visited both sites spent on average 20% more time on MySpace [...]

97th Floor, a US-based SEO firm, have recently released what they call their “Social Media” extension for Firefox, which adds a new toolbar to the bottom of your browser window for fast posting of URLs to Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us. The toolbar can also display stats if a page has already been [...]

Two articles about two different technologies both bearing the name Atom caught my attention recently. The first was a blog entry on the 24th of July by Tim Bray on the approval of the Atom Publishing Protocol as an RFC standard by the IETF’s Internet Engineering Steering Group. You may already be familiar with [...]

Dublin, Ireland saw one of its largest web technology and business gatherings last Thursday evening (September 13th). At least 200 Web 2.0 professionals from all over the country and Europe, plus others interested in the web application industry, converged on Ely HQ in the docklands area of the city for a series of events. To [...]

A problem exists with most social networking services (SNSs) in that they usually do not work together and therefore you are required to re-enter your profile and re-define your social connections when you register for each new site. There have been a lot of complaints about these so-called “walled gardens”. Although many of the most [...]

French site “Skyrock Network” has lived up to its name and held onto its place at the number one spot in France’s list of top social networking sites, based on recent statistics from ComScore gathered since the start of 2007. The site, which currently has over 9 million total unique visitors a month, has had [...]

Online social networking service Bebo and web corporation Yahoo! have announced an exclusive multi-year advertising deal whereby Yahoo! will manage both banner and video ads for Bebo in the UK and Ireland (1, 2). Bebo is the most popular social networking site in the UK and Ireland, and had 10,655,000 visitors from the UK and 650,000 [...]

BlogTalk 2008, the 5th International Conference on Social Software, has today published its call for proposals for the event which will be held in Cork, Ireland on the 3rd and 4th of March next year. The event is being chaired / co-chaired by Thomas N. Burg, founder of BlogTalk and a social software expert, Jan Schmidt, [...]

The social networking site Facebook increased its total unique visitors in the UK by 366% in the six months from January 2007 to July 2007, according to figures from ComScore. During the same timeframe, the other top 10 social media sites operating in the UK increased their numbers of unique visitors by between 25 [...]