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A Yahoo! sign is seen in Times Square. Yahoo! is gingerly expanding Twitter-like social-networking features while trying to avoid privacy stumbles made by titans Facebook and Google. Yahoo! is gingerly expanding Twitter-like social-networking features while trying to avoid privacy stumbles made by titans Facebook and Google. (c) 2010 AFP

If anyone still thinks “Enterprise 2.0″ is just a catchphrase, think again. Wikis, microblogging, discussion forums, social bookmarking, online groups and communities, and other tools that have come to comprise “social networking software” are marching into enterprises at a rapid clip. [ Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter and Killer [...]

Digsby released a new update recently, focusing on enhancements specific to Windows 7, as well as tweaking several of the social networking features in the controversial multiple-protocol instant messaging client. Digsby build 76 beta still forces users services on users unless they opt-out during the installation process, and it’s added yet another in this new [...]

Google is getting ready to add social-networking features into Gmail as it attempts to jump-start its social Web strategy. Gmail users can already set their status within the service, but Google plans to expand that into a stream of status updates found in services like Facebook and Twitter, according to sources familiar with the company’s [...]