Young people are making the lateral network — their circle of friends and friends of those friends — the first stop on their job search.

The effects of News Feed, Twitter and other forms of incessant online contact.

Fox News Channel wants more friends. But instead of using the News Corporation’s own social network, it’s choosing to network on the site’s chief rival, Facebook.

David Katz believes that his Web site, sportsfanlive.com, will compete well against established sports sites he views as stodgy and too congested for fans to wade through.

People who were addicted to playing Scrabulous on Facebook have migrated by the thousands to Wordscraper.

The Calcutta-based brothers who developed Scrabulous bowed to legal pressure and barred North American users from playing the game on Facebook.

The Calcutta-based brothers who developed Scrabulous bowed to legal pressure and barred North American users from playing the game on Facebook.

The Calcutta-based brothers who developed Scrabulous bowed to legal pressure and barred North American users from playing the game on Facebook.

It failed in its pursuit of Yahoo. It is paying people to use its search engine. Now Microsoft thinks it has found a source of users for its foundering search service: Facebook.

At its annual conference for developers, the company announced Facebook Connect, a way that other Web sites can integrate parts of Facebook’s service.