Widget syndicator Clearspring Technologies has closed financing of $18 million in a third round of funding from New Enterprise Associates, Novak Biddle Venture Partners and other investors.

The latest stats from Nielsen Online show a significant decline in month-over-month unique visitors to Facebook in the US. In April, traffic fell to 22.4M uniques, down from the 24.9M reported in March. Year-over-year traffic growth decelerated from 98% t

Social wunderkinds like MySpace and Facebook face a dilemma: advertising in these environments is a decidedly hit-and-miss affair. For all their potential, they’re tough for advertisers to figure out. The magic of search engines is how accurately they pai

How much are your friends worth? That is the question behind the big debate going on around social networks and data portability. In the last ten days, Facebook, Google, and MySpace have all announced ways to let people access their data (including friend

With its more than 70 million active users, many people associate social networking site (SNS) Facebook with the word “phenomenon.” According to the site’s own statistics it is the sixth most-trafficked website in the world, offering 55,000 different regi