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Digg Goes
Deeper With
Social Networking

With its audience expanding and interests diversifying, the popular site is launching new features to help users find like-minded friends

My Virtual Life

A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice

The Coming
Virtual Web

In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social—a lot like a virtual world

Yahoo's Open Invitation

Like counterparts at Facebook, CEO Jerry Yang plans to give developers more leeway in building tools designed to keep users on its pages longer

Slide Show: Your Favorite Bloggers

BusinessWeek.com readers' top 12 choices from the idiosyncratic world of blogging

Best of the
Web 2006

What are your must-bookmark sites? We invited BusinessWeek.com readers to vote for their favorite sites and tools in 23 categories, organized into four groups: Information Overload, Money Matters, Not at Work, and Do-It-Yourself Web.

Slide: Max Levchin's Next Act

Can the founder of PayPal strike gold again with his new company, which helps MySpace and Facebook users connect to friends?

Fogeys Flock
to Facebook

Professionals pushing 40 and older are joining the college crowd on the social hub. Can CEO Zuckerberg's team give them reason to stick around?

Scaling the Social Web

Move over, MySpace. Online players from media giant Viacom to auctioneer eBay are adding networking features for their users

Slide Show: The 25 Most Influential People on the Web

Readers and BW staffers nominate movers and shakers in cyberspace

Slide Show: Readers Make Their Votes Count

From blogging to widgets and everything in between, we tally up the ballots in our annual Best of the Web survey

Internet Pioneers' Next Frontier

Tech visionaries including Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Amazon's Jeff Bezos are setting their sights on space exploration

Q&A: Internet Pioneer Looks Spaceward

Vint Cerf, an architect of the Net, talks about Google's Lunar X competition and the challenges of space communication

To Catch a Virtual World Thief

Too strict a definition of intellectual-property theft in places like Second Life could have a chilling effect on entrepreneurialism and innovation