The professional social network was launched by Reid Hoffman, one of Facebook's early investors, in 2003. While Facebook, which got its start a year later, was meant as a place to connect with friends ...

Social network history can reveal your identity - When you enrol yourself as a member on a social networking site, may be revealing more than you bargained for, an experimental website has ...

Rory Cellan-Jones asks where social networking will go in the future. Read Rory's thoughts about how technology is shaping our lives on his BBC blog.

A list of popular social networking sites and concepts that had come and gone, and the ones that look promising enough. The Nasdaq MarketSite, welcomes the Facebook IPO (AP Photo/Richard Drew).

Becoming Familiar with Social Networks -- A Brief History of Social Network Analysis -- How to Study Social Networks, from Theory to Design. --- Actor Level in Complete Networks -- Actor Level in Ego ...

“Network” itself usually meant a television broadcasting system such as NBC; the notion of a social network was essentially unknown. Today, most Americans understand a social network as a set of ...

Facebook may have made social networking a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but it wasn’t the first Internet company to connect people online. And it won’t be the last.

The social networking game isn't over yet - Rory Cellan-Jones looks at the sites of the future and asks where the phenomenon is heading. The power of social networks has taken off in recent years ...