Traffic to social networks comprise almost 40% of the mobile Web according to Opera Software's "State of the Mobile Web" report, published today. The results both show healthy growth in the numbers of consumers accessing the Web from their mobile devices and provide insight into aggregate consumer preferences when browsing from their phones.

New research shows the surprising paths taken by forwarded messages through the Internet

Human diseases and social networks seem to have little in common. However, at the crux of these two lies a network, communities within the network, and farther even, substructures of the communities.

Social network giant Facebook agreed to make changes to its hotly contested Beacon ad service today, following a public outcry over its voyeuristic nature.

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Users Gain Ability to Share their Actions from 44 Participating Sites with their Friends on Facebook

Our increasingly interconnected world has made it easier for information and disease to spread. However a new study from Harvard University and Cornell University shows that fewer “degrees of separation” can make social networks too weak to disseminate behavioral change.

Residents of Second Life can now become cash buyers for land and property in their virtual world.

Andrea Simmons, Consultant Security Forum Manager at British Computer Society comments, “As we become citizens of cyberspace and with social networking sites making details of members visible through public search engines, we need to learn how to use privacy settings in better ways and use computers safely.”

Explores a traditional usage of the term community in contrast to the modern day perception as demonstrated in an 'Internet community' such as Flugpo.com.