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By the powers vested in me by the blogosphere I hereby declare this MySpace Charity Week! I urge everyone (who still has an active MySpace account) to login for a few minutes and post a bulletin, a few recent pictures or say hello to a friend you haven't spoken to in a while. The "Forgot your password?" link may come in handy.

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference will begin on Monday in Boston and more than 20 companies have been selected to showcase their new enterprise collaboration and business social media offerings. Here is what we can expect to see this week…

Potentially bad news for smaller image sharing apps such as Twitpic and Posterous as Flickr (finally) adds a new feature which allows users to tweet their photos. Also this week Twitter modifies their user interface to give us more control of who we follow and who follows us.

Apple this week released the first edition of the iPhone OS Enterprise Deployment Guide which targets system administrators. The 83 page manifesto exhibits Apple's will to penetrate the business smartphone market. The guide provides comprehensive instructions for iPhone and iPod touch deployment...

An effort to restructure MySpace into a more innovative and entrepreneurial business results in News Corp ordering layoffs of 30% of the social network's staff this week, approximately 400 employees. MySpace has seen nothing but bad news lately...

A new offering enters the Enterprise 2.0 collaboration market this week with Jive Express. The goal of this software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of Jive's

Last week an article discussing Twitter's lack of loyalty stated that this was not an issue for Facebook or MySpace. Well at least for the latter there seems

The top story from the Googleplex this week is the announcement confirming Google Wave will be available to 100,000 testers this fall. The latest project lead by Google Maps developers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, Google Wave is an open source collaboration and communications platform that fuses conversations and documents in real-time.

This week Microsoft Office 2010 was released as a technical preview to testers. New collaboration features will be the highlight of Office 2010 applications. Unified and real-time communication products are proliferating throughout the market and Microsoft is hoping to keep pace, and its strong grip on the business world.

An effort to give smartphones a more integral role in business communications will expand collaborative features for WebEx users. Announced at the Cisco Live conference this week, new features planned for the third quarter of next year include…

Rumors earlier this week of Twitter negotiating a new round of funding at a valuation of $1 billion are confirmed today by co-founder Evan Williams on the Twitter Blog.

Socialcast this Wednesday released an official developer API. After weeks of beta testing with select clients the API is now available for all Socialcast members. Socialcast is a real-time collaboration platform that allows companies to communicate and collaborate via activity streams where coworkers share text, files, images and links.

The top story on the social Web this week is Facebook's acquisition of social media aggregator FriendFeed. The transaction is reported around $50 million. FriendFeed's traffic is an estimated 1 million visitors per month which is minute compared to Facebook's 250 million. With a recent Facebook valuation of $10 billion though, the numbers...

Twitter rolls out a stylish new homepage this week and is finally promoting real-time search front and center. Up until now, when talking with friends about the true power of Twitter lying in it's real-time search capabilities, some seemed to not fully grasp the concept. Hopefully the new design will help more users understand how it works.

A little buzz has been stirring this past week originating from a post on consultant Cheryl Smith's blog describing how her husband [Peter Smith] received a dating advertisement through Facebook displaying her photo along with the text, "Hey Peter, Hot singles are waiting for you!"

Zoomerang this week delivers increased sharing and collaboration for businesses seeking efficient and effective solutions for managing online surveys. The centralized architecture allows disconnected employees and teams to come together and share survey results and templates to increase productivity.

Barclays, the U.K. banking behemoth, is challenging Barclays To Host Blockchains Hackathon developers to assist refurbish the worldwide derivatives market next month at a hackathon. Disclosed to the media this week, DerivHack will take place at Barclays' Rise accelerator spaces at the same time in New York and London on September 20 and 21, 2018. The ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), Thomson Reuters, and Deloitte are co-sponsoring the hackathon.