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Lady Gaga is already the reigning queen of Twitter, with her nearly 19 million followers topping those of anyone else on the site. Now, she's launching a site of her own. Little Monsters, now in invite-only beta testing, is the pop princess's effort...

Facebook users who have resisted adopting the Timeline profile will no longer have a choice -- the social media network is making it mandatory across all users. A post on Facebook's blog today showed it is rolling out the Timeline profile "over the...

Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company. He'd strap on headphones to block out everything but the endorphin rush as he cranked code late into the night on a new service that instantly...

Facebook's Ticker, the fast-scrolling tote board of pretty much everything your friends are doing, is ready to start selling you stuff. "Sponsored stories" -- in other words, posts that someone paid for -- reportedly will begin appearing in the feed in...

Ron Gorodetzky didn't aspire to work at Google or any other tech giant for that matter. Gorodetzky was a start-up man -- having worked at the news sharing site Digg in its early days before going on to be a co-founder of the video site Revision3 and...

Michael Arrington, the colorful founder of TechCrunch, who built a mini media empire in Silicon Valley that he sold to AOL a year ago, is raising a $20 million venture capital fund to invest in early-stage technology companies with Patrick Gallagher of...

Digg's new look: Newsrooms to separate the good from the bad: Digg, the social news reading website, is going through yet another overhaul and this time is taking a new approach, which it calls Newsrooms, to allow the best content to ascend atop its...

SoundCloud wants to be a YouTube for sounds: SoundCloud is one of the handful of popular destinations for musicians on the web looking to upload their songs, so listeners can download or stream their work. But while musician's have largely powered...

Delicious relaunches with custom 'stacks' of links, curated to any topic a user can come up with. But will users show up?...

DALLAS — Running is popular and one of the least expensive ways to get in shape--just lace up a pair of shoes and run. Adrian Hasenbauer got hooked years ago and now enters marathon and triathlon events. Last October she took part the Longhorn...

Drink fast An Iowa man has vowed to subsist on nothing but beer and water for the 46 days from Ash Wednesday until Easter, on April 24. J. Wilson is a home brewer, beer blogger and editor of the weekly Adams County Free Press newspaper. The married...

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Friendster, Reddit, Digg. How do you stay in touch? This morning I was alerted to a new article (ironically not through social media) but through my daily CNN rundown email. A fan of social media, myself, I had to...