Having secured the rights to Walter Isaacson's biography of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Sony is reportedly working to secure Aaron Sorkin – screenwriter of Sony's hit Facebook movie...

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Scrappy outsider startup Unthink.com, which bills itself as the "anti-Facebook," is opening up its doors today, allowing in its first round of beta testers. The Tampa-based company with $2.5 million in funding from DouglasBay Capital sees itself as a more open, more honest form of social networking - one where its users are the owners of their data, and not the product being sold to advertisers.

Read More: Anti-Facebook Social Network “Unthink” Launches To Public

Source: Nielsenwire.Nielsenwire combed through the reports the firm produced during 2011 in the areas of social, local and mobile and produced a infographic they call:Infographic: The Most Valuable Digital ConsumersHere's a summary of Nielsenwire's mobile findings:- 38% of Americans own a smartphone
- 66% of the time on a smartphone is spent using apps
- 35 is the average number of smartphone apps installed
- 27% looked for coupons or deals related to an ad seen on a smartphone or [...]

Read More: Nielsen: 44% of Smartphone Owners Visit Social Network Sites

Our coverage of Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco continues. The theme for this year is big data so we interviewed cloud file sharing company Box.net which has just raised its...

Read More: A Web 2.0 Summit walkthrough and the Box.net Innovation Network [Video]

Want to connect with social media users from around the world? A social networking site which uses translation technology has been released to meet your needs.


Read More: New Social Network Will Translate What You Say As You Speak to International Friends

Men have one; professionals have one, so why shouldn’t scientists have one? Sciencia.org launches new social network for scientists.


Read More: Sciencia — A Scientist’s Social Network with 1.2 Million Articles

For content producers across the Internet, pageviews are the king when it comes to monetization. While there are loads of ways (beyond the not-so-simple act of having good content) to...

Read More: Scribol wants to send its network of 26 million monthly viewers to your site

If you've been looking for more granular control over your AirPort devices, Apple's AirPort Utility is exactly what you've been waiting for. As a new release from Apple itself, AirPort...

Read More: Apple releases AirPort Utility for iOS 5, giving more control over your network

If you've been looking for more granular control over your AirPort devices, Apple's AirPort Utility is exactly what you've been waiting for. As a new release from Apple itself, AirPort Utility lets you control AirPort base stations, AirPort Express, Extreme and Time Capsules. The utility is a free download, available for both iPhone and iPad [...]

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A new social networking site is aimed at helping baby boomers maintain an active lifestyle. ActiveEmptyNesters.com is offering every student who graduated from school or college before 1978 the chance to reunite with their classmates for free.


Read More: Old Friends Reunite at ActiveEmptyNesters Social Network

Orange and T-Mobile customers have been able to utilise 2G signals on each operators networks since September 2010 as a result of the two companies, but today Everything Everywhere – parent company of both operators – has announced it will roll out 3G signals to all of its 27 million customers from next week. The [...]

Read More: Everything Everywhere to expand Orange and T-Mobile network sharing to 3G

Orange and T-Mobile customers have been able to utilise 2G signals on each operators networks since September 2010 as a result of the two companies, but today Everything Everywhere –...

Read More: Everything Everywhere to expand Orange and T-Mobile network sharing to 3G

Creator of the largest online military heritage community, TogetherWeServed, has activated its next chapter in connecting and honoring U.S. public servants. Available is a secure, feature-rich website for the U.S. state and municipal police community called Police.TogetherWeServed.com (PTWS).


Read More: TogetherWeServed Activates Secure Network for U.S. Police Officers

ManWall.com launches a social network where “guys can be guys.” Is having a space where “guys can be guys” a positive or negative addition to the social media landscape?


Read More: A Social Network for Men: Good Idea?

RenRen, the top Chinese social network, has purchased China-based video and photo sharing site 56.com. Reports state that the deal exchanged around $80 million.56.com was launched in 2005 and is a Chinese photo and video sharing site where users can upload, view and share videos — just like on YouTube. The almost all of the videos on the site are user-generated. The videos consist of mingling content from performing artists, amateur groups and video aficionados.Renren has more or less 30 [...]

Read More: Popluar Chinese Social Network Buys Video Site

"As the first social network service focusing on forming ties and encouraging interactions based on common interest, it helps people to get to know each other and keeps everyone well informed on what was going on in and around their neighborhood in real time," says founder Amit Mehta.


Read More: My Virtual Neighbor is a Social Network for Your Street

Until now, social TV has been about sharing and talking about your favorite TV shows online, but Youtoo is taking the idea of social TV to a whole new level, offering to actually put social networkers on TV.  Youtoo just launched this week with the goal of giving everyone 15 seconds of fame.


Read More: World’s First Social TV Network Wants To Put You On Television

Even though the rest of the web has moved on from Myspace the site is still the go-to network for a great many musicians, maintaining relevancy with bands that use it to easily track fans, set up (and publicize shows) and host music, photos and news in a single place. The problem is that, as so many superior social networks have been set up, Myspace has become dated and lost its appeal for the general public. A new service, the recently launched Headliner.fm looks to reinvent music-based social [...]

Read More: Headliner.fm: A Social Network for Musicians

Have you been dying to get on Google+? Well, today is your lucky day. Google’s social networking site opens to the public.


Read More: Google+ Opens Social Network to the Public

We first covered Poppy Dinsey and her fashion blog back in July.To give you a quick recap, Poppy set up What I Wore Today (WIWT) in January 2010, and it's where Poppy has been uploading and sharing one photo each day of her in a different outfit.But Poppy is pivoting and today she's launching the public version of her new WIWT website on the same domain, which she's selling as a ‘new social network'. WIWT mark 2 is supported by a free iPhone app which is also available today.Whilst the ini [...]

Read More: ‘What I Wore Today' fashion blog relaunches as a social network