TechCrunch (Wednesday)
Plancast, the social planning service created by TechCrunch alum Mark Hendrickson, is rich with data. It knows not only what you're planning to do in the foreseeable future, but what your friends are planning, and what their friends are planning. But all of this data has been trapped inside of Planc...

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
It's been no secret that social network platform Ning has been going through a significant transition in both its leadership and business model in 2010. In March, longtime CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal. And in April, Ning's bubble burst — the company laid off 40% of its ...

Venturebeat (Wednesday)

One of the challenges facing business social networking tools is that they might not connect meaningfully with workers’ day-to-day activities. Socialtext is tackling part of that problem with a new service called Socialtext Connect, which adds social features to existing enterprise applicat...

Venturebeat (Wednesday)

In one of the more fascinating lawsuits filed over social networking, an IT staffing firm has sued three former employees and their new workplace for violating non-compete agreements by making contact through LinkedIn.

TEKsystems Inc. alleged that Brelyn Hammernick, a former employee, reac...

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
Worlize is kicking off the private beta of what it calls the first user-created social gaming and chat platform for Facebook and other social networks. The service will be kept under wraps until the public launch in Fall 2010, but you can head to the website now to sign up for the public beta releas...

Silicon Alley Insider (Wednesday)

The hoopla around Facebook's privacy "problem" has, of course, died down. But the reality is that it was never a big deal in the first place.

So what's Facebook's REAL privacy problem?

Delivering the opening monologue for the Webby awards, The Office's BJ Novak exposed Facebook's ac...