As part of their Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet in-depth analysis, comScore found that 75.8 percent of all online ladies visited a social networking site in May 2010. Conversely, the study found that only 69.7 percent of all men engaged in the same activity.

In a recent poll conducted by Zogby International Americans were asked to rate the news sources that they trusted most. At the very bottom of the list? Traditional Media.

The Network Box report indicates that more business traffic lands on Facebook that any other website.

Arbitron Inc. and Edison Research, have recently published the results of their recent report, revealing a number of useful statistics in regards to today’s digital lifestyle.

Thousands of South Carolinian's are expected to capitalize on and use the power of social networking tools to stage an online rally aimed at voicing their opinions to state legislators.

Google officially admitted yesterday that it’s testing procedure surrounding their new offering Buzz was less than sufficient. Since it’s February 9th appearance, Google has had to do some serious retooling of the product, amid privacy concerns that sprang up almost immediately. Google says that they’re working “extremely hard” to fix the problem. "We're very early in this space. This was one of our first big attempts," Todd Jackson, Buzz product manager, told BBC News.

South Africa currently ranks number 29th on Facebook’s global user list, and demonstrates a number of similarities with much larger using countries.

Opinions abound on Social Media. How it works, where it works best, how individuals and businesses can use it best, etc. Each of these opinions have their own intrinsic value, but sometimes, nothing beats cold hard numbers.

There’s no arguing that 2009 was a banner year for online social networking platforms. Obviously, the big players in the field, Facebook and Twitter, saw a healthy increase in user activity. A new report from eMarketer might just point to the reason why.

According to a new survey published by Alerian, two thirds (66%) of marketing professionals plan on allotting more in their budgets for social media engagement.

If you, or someone you know, just doesn't 'get it', i.e. "Twitter is a waste of time," please take 4 minutes and 22 seconds out of your busy day, watch this outstanding video from socialnomics.net and rethink the, "What's the point?" attitude.

These data visualizations below represent to me the most meaningful and useful tools available. They cover everything from Digg activity to Network connectivity, to simply watching the world tweet the day away.

Dubbed as the “Celebrate Originality” campaign, adidas and deviantART have created an online fingerpainting contest that seeks to engage (and presumably draw in even more) deviantART members in a competition to create and submit original art using the worldwide know adidas ‘three stripes’.

In a recent report published by the Burton Group, analysts’ found that attempts to replicate social networking (facebook) and their associated tools (twitter) aren’t really taking off within the corporate structure.

This came to me today courtesey of Lisa Johnson of Modern Pilates Boston. Since words alone can not express the true awesomeness of this mashup, I'll simply bow out and let the video do the talking.

Greenville, South Carolina small business owner Big Jon Evans has lost his ride. He's running a social media experiment, whereby he's auctioning off 1 x 1 squares for $10 a piece to allow contributors have their image on the scooter. At summer's end Jon will be auctioning off the scooter and donating all proceeds to charity.