This post is a follow up to the first law. There are two more coming. The second law of social interaction design is that the functionality of social media is contingent on social practices that use them. Notice that there's a double contingency there.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan will become the new archbishop of New York, the Vatican announced Monday.

The founder of a US TV station aimed at countering stereotypes of Muslims is charged with beheading his wife.

Friday Jan. 30, 2009 6:24 PM ET - Part of the economic stimulus bill calls for raising payments to food stamp recipients by 13 percent. That's a clear signal there are a ton of people hurting out there. According to the USDA, there are 31 million people

The fat lady's song hasn't played on the Zune yet: Holiday sales of Microsoft's (MSFT) MP3 player may have been down 54% year-over-year, but the company is still insisting it's full steam ahead with the Zune.

Does the little blue icon pictured here represent the next huge Google product - the long-rumored “GDrive”? Maybe. Google Operating System has uncovered

Chuck Noll is the only NFL coach to win four Super Bowls. So why isn't this Steelers legend caught up in the fanfare, glory and national attention? ESPN.com's Elizabeth Merrill explains he's not that type of man.

Google (GOOG) stock is about 50% off its 52-week high. So it wasn't much of a surprise when, during today's Q4 earnings call, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said 85% of the company's employees own some underwater stock options.

The social-networking turf wars go on. And on. And on. You may think that Facebook is so far ahead in worldwide traffic that we should call it a day, but other factors are still at play. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.

A female graduate student at Virginia Tech was killed Wednesday night when a man she knew attacked her with a knife and decapitated her, a school spokesman said.

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TweetDeck, an increasingly popular tool for accessing the Twitter service from your desktop, is close to securing a round of angel funding to the tune of nearly $500,000 from seed funding house Betaworks, reports MediaMemo. TweetDeck is the work of one m

If the marketplace isn't talking about you, there's a reason. If people aren't discussing your products, your services, your cause, your movement or your career, there's a reason. The reason is that you're boring. (I guess that's what boring means,...

Well, Google picked a good day to announce layoffs and kill a bunch of products. While everyone is busy reading ...

Kevin Thau, a Twitter user for nearly a year, joins the microblogging company as director of mobile business development. Now how about a revenue plan? Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on Webware.

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