Google announced that its Google+ social networking service has 135 million users "active in just the stream" along with 235 million that are active across Google and 500 million that have upgraded. More...

Internet media and market research firm Nielsen//NetRatings has released a report detailing the growth of online communities such as Friends Reunited, Blogger, MySpace, and many others. Over 57 million member community web pages are viewed... More...

Jamaica's government has just announced a $5 million program to provide free Internet access in poor communities across the island. Phillip Paulwell, Jamaica's Commerce and Technology Minister, said, "The "e-Jamaica" initiative will... More...

Lycos US is closing its chat services and message boards from next month. The portal is pulling the plug on its "Lycos Communities" (including chat, message boards, clubs and image galleries) from February 1. Terra... More...

I manage one of the largest and succecfull MSN communities on XP (22,500 members) This morning a couple of managers of MSN communities on XP, received an email telling to remove XP logo's... More...