Can NASA Attract a Younger Crowd with Social Networking Tools?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

NASA is the latest to take on additional social networking tools for the purpose of attracting more users. With about 1 million unique views per month, NASA is catering directly towards the Facebook crowd, in so many words–the 18 to 25 year olds. This marks the first major ...

Social Networking Conference Miami: Register Now and Save $220

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

We’re proud to announce that Mashable is a media sponsor for the upcoming Social Networking Conference in beautiful Miami, FL. The event takes place January 31-February 1, and if you register before November 30th, you can save $220. Topics covered include: global business strategies for social networking, mobile, ...

Xbox 360: Social Networking Platform

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Fans of the Xbox 360 will notice their systems update on December 4th, and according to reports will now allow a social networking feature called “Friends of Friends.” There exists currently within the Xbox live framework the ability to maintain a list of friends, presumably regular gaming partners. The new ...

IM Meets Social Networking With Yahoo myM

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Yahoo’s got a new social network up, called myM. Yes, the last letter is capitalized. No, we don’t know why. myM is currently in invite-only beta stage, and it’s described as a social messaging service. Actually, let me quote the whole revelatory sentence from myM’s home page: “myM is changing the ...

LinkedIn Smartly Adds Feeds … and Other Standard Networking Features

Monday, November 19th, 2007

LinkedIn is resembling Facebook now in more ways than one. As most social networks have done in the past year, LinkedIn has recently added Network Updates in chronological arrangement (aka news feeds). This should make it a bit easier to see what’s going on in your LinkedIn ...

Build a Query Processor Class for Networking in PHP 5

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Welcome to the first of three tutorials in a series that covers network programming in PHP. In this article you will learn how to use some useful PHP networking functions that will help you perform a variety of common networking tasks. To that end you will build a simple ...