An econometrics study of failures among businesses that have offered daily deals hints at a bewildering complexity behind this kind of marketing
The British anthropologist’s pioneering research on human social behavior has shaped business theory, military planning, and social-network design.
The social network needs to make mobile apps pay. Ads that use phone sensors to understand a person’s surroundings could be the answer.
A new app gives couples a private network to share texts, videos, and virtual kisses—and shows there’s space for social innovation.
A service called FounderDating helps tech entrepreneurs meet their ideal startup mate.
A social curation startup makes collecting, and sharing, Web images surprisingly addictive.
Tweets and other social media comments are about to drive real-time changes in programming.
The site can now provide summaries and stats that offer a window on your life months or years in the past.
New technology deciphers—and empowers—the millions who talk back to their televisions through the Web.
A new venture by 4chan founder Chris Poole intends to be both social and fun.
A new social-networking service aims to improve the flow of communication by connecting doctors and patients online.
Police may already be sifting through communications for incriminating messages.
Bluefin Labs aims to measure the connections between social media and television shows.
They’re finding useful information for legal cases on Facebook and Twitter.
A startup has licensed heavyweight artificial-intelligence technology for its online recommendation engine.
YouTube’s cofounders plan to rehabilitate one of the first social-media services.
A startup helps publishers keep the discussion on their own sites, rather than scattered everywhere.
A free business-focused social network lets employees choose how to collaborate.
A new app blurs the line between gaming and hunting for deals.
A new crop of location-based services for mobile devices will encourage users to interact more.
Much like Netflix can suggest movies, an Internet recommendation engine called Wings points you toward dating prospects.
A startup provides free access to real-time data from the social Web.
Service tracks social network chitchat about a product.
What happens when your online pals meet your TV?
Do blogs and tweets help a company’s bottom line? One startup thinks it has the answer.
A new version of Netvibes focuses on real-time data from around the Internet.
Protecting an inalienable right in the age of Facebook.
Selling songs via console games, the Web, and phones may help the ailing music industry.
Measuring online buzz could help investors, a company claims.
The back-and-forth behind controversial entries could help reveal their true value.
Campaign strategists and Facebook’s cofounder discuss the 2008 election.
Why 23,201 people care that Justine Ezarik just ate a cookie.
Three startups let users layer new content onto online video.
A new age of “technological reproducibility” is here. Ugh.
We profile some of the most innovative ideas of the Social Web.