When MySpace was the biggest kid on the block, it was truly a force to be reckoned with. The likes of Facebook didn’t stand a ghost of a chance and this was largely the reason Rupert Murdoch and News Corp swooped in and bought the then world’s biggest social network.

That activity that experts were speculating wouldn’t happen on Google+ has started—but not in the area that most expected. It turns out much of the activity has been in photo-sharing.

The Email has become a part of what defines us in the 21st century and it’s hard to imagine a time when this near-essential tool was not at our disposal. But how many of us know precisely when Email was born? When was the first ever Email sent?

Even though Google+ is open to the public now, it hasn’t caught on with everyone yet. If you’re on Google+, but your friends haven’t made the switch yet, it can seem rather lonely there.

In what will come as no real surprise to astute social media observers, it has emerged from a study that the bulk of content tweeted and consumed on Twitter emanates from a small band of users. The exact details of the study were revealed by Yahoo Research.

It’s amazing what you can find when you do a bit a bit of digging and know exactly how to spot things. It turns out that Google might be planning to launch some sort of service (interwoven in Google+) that would allow it to compete with Q & A site Quora

GitHub has really shown that the social web and the enhancements made with web 2.0, something as ‘techy’ as software development can achieve critical mass.

In a frantic effort to ward off the pouncing Google+, Facebook has been unveiling change after change, and just when you thought we’ve had enough—here comes another one.