Seventeen declarations reflecting how the world is today thanks to the internet. The focus is journalism but much of the ideas can be applied more generally.

Read Facebook's proposed changes to the "Statement of Rights and Reponsibilities (SRR)". Comments in blue and hosted at Box.net.

"Huge news in the world of social media today: FacebookFacebook has acquired online activity aggregator FriendFeedFriendFeed."

"Community features are spreading from 'Web 2.0' to 'Enterprise 2.0.' Research across 14 companies found that many are making productive use of social intranet features."

Even more layoffs at MySpace, this time up to 30% of the total workforce.

MySpace is trending downwards while Facebook and Twitter head towards the stars. Check out the original Nielsen report for more.

Inside Facebook uncovers recent changes to the payment terms of service at Facebook to signal currency and transaction support.

Facebook continues its unrelenting growth as well as attracting international investment.

Interesting discussion about moving from the "page" metaphor to a "stream" one to signal where the internet is going.

Interesting post at SlashDot about new corporate agreements that restrict what employees can say about the company on the social web.

Ning adds a whole raft of apps for their social network users to leverage. These include apps for popular services like Twitter, Ustream, Box.net, etc.

Facebook is looking at managing ads in New Zealand and Australia by opening a new office.

Coverage of an important step (i.e., new RSS based app) to opening Facebook data up to the masses.

Very easy to use site to produce various online posters showing things you like. Aimed at kids but interface is very advanced and simple to use.

This is an excellent post that finally separates Twitter (social messaging service) and Facebook (social networking service) from each other has separate services.

Jeremiah Owyang presents an overview of a report by Forrester on the next five years of the social web.

Archive your last 3200 tweets for free and produce a CSV file for later analysis.

Lightweight cloud-based file sharing utility. Two options: 1) Upload file and 2) Share private link.

More grist for the superficial media mill looking for evidence of slumps in academic performance from spending time online. This time it's Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook growth is still increasing, particularly 35+ age group (watch out kids your parents are coming!).