Businesses that depend heavily on social networks and user communities will need to deal with data privacy policies more carefully than their peers, experts say. Facebook, for instance, last month ...

Social media has enabled unlimited communications from any individuals, but there are significant challenges in validating user influence in order to ensure authentic relationships. Lisbon, ...

Companies like Klout and Kred score how influential individuals, brands and organizations are within their social media networks. The more you post, the higher you score and the higher your influence.

I got a tip recently about MySidekick, a new search site that blends traditional search results (powered by Yahoo) with monitoring of what users do with the search results. For example, if you click ...

Nodes A and B look the same when only considering their closest network connections (directed arrows in the green region). The two users A and B influence three users each (orange nodes), and they ...

Two patents were recently granted to Google that paint a very interesting picture of the future of search. These patents are: Detecting and correcting potential errors in user behavior Guided ...