I was never the queen of the popular crowd.  But I do have a core group of really good friends, and I have a lot of other friends all around the world, all at different places in life, all with different personal goals, dreams, and aspirations. And some of them I’ve never met in person. [...]

Curt Monash – leading analyst and author of “The Explosion in DBMS Choice,” my company’s latest sponsored white paper – pointed me to an online discussion he did yesterday over at NetworkWorld in which he gives his take on using social media/networking as a business advantage rather than viewing it, as so many companies do, [...]

In spite of the extreme popularity of MySpace, it seems that the tides are beginning to turn in favor of Facebook. The Washington Post reported today that, last month, Facebook surpassed MySpace in number of web site visitors and page views, thanks to its increased popularity amongst a non-US population. Facebook recently created French, Spanish, [...]