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We’ve received a solid report from a reliable and proven source that Yahoo has sold social bookmarking site Delicious for $5m+.The service was placed on the market in December after a meeting to discuss Yahoo’s future direction. After a heated bidding process, the site has reportedly been sold to a Read More

Playing around on Twitter, I came across @yo_stellar, the handle for Jason Kottke's latest project. Intrigued, I followed a link back to his blog where Kottke, a former web designer who has been blogging at Kottke.org since 1998, explained the basics behind Stellar, a new web app/site designed to h Read More

Only a little while ago, networking for most growing businesses meant squeezing a few hours out of an already busy day to attend an indifferent lunch with a few other business people of various kinds in a nearby hotel or restaurant.Not any more. The social media revolution led by Facebook and Twitt Read More

When word leaked that Yahoo was planning to "sunset" social-bookmarking site Delicious, at least one person was happy: Maciej Ceglowski, the founder of competing service Pinboard.But first, he was terrified.When he came into work that morning, traffic to the site was about 50 hits per second, 20 ti Read More

The ongoing saga of Google's attempt to "get" social media has been full of so many disappointments--and more recently, so much silence--that sometimes it seems like the company has just given up on it entirely.Whether Google's still working on a massive operation slated to take a bite out of Faceb Read More

You may soon be able to start a Skype video call with your friends on Facebook. The latest rumor suggests that Facebook and Skype have resumed talks about integrating the video conferencing technology on the social network.The two companies first talked about a potential partnership in September 20 Read More

Social bookmarking, over the last couple of years, has risen to a highly popular level with regards to generating highly targeted traffic for your website. It’s been only a few years since the web has turned social, but the effects have been massive. If you have a blog or a website that you would l Read More

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences.Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please request the Mashable Media Partnership Guidelines. If your event meets our requirements, contact us at least 45 d Read More

Users of MyBlogLog, a start-up that Yahoo acquired in 2007 for about $10 million, received an e-mail early today announcing the service's demise.The announcement is not exactly a surprise. MyBlogLog was one of the Yahoo services listed on a leaked presentation screenshot from December as a property Read More

In the last few years, social media has taken off. If you aren’t using social media, some might look at you funny and ask why. Due to all of the success with social media, several people have created sites to help bloggers and niche communities by creating social booking sites. Since the creation o Read More