1. Journalism – FT.com builds on Alphaville success with Long Room launch
Financial Times invests in social networking

2. Read/Write Web – Study: Influencers are Alive and Well on Social Media Sites
Social networking sites are building advocacy

3. Read/Write Web – Report: Social Web Usage Tipped in 2008
Social network usage has grown further in 2008

4. Giga OM – Top 10 Web Tools for Election ‘08
Follow the US election with these useful tools

5. ShinyRed – Social media and brands in 2009: Shiny Red report
An informative report about trends in 2008, and predictions for 2009

6. Wall Street Journal – Twitter Goes Mainstream
Microblogging is no longer a fad

7. BBC News – Bosses ’should embrace Facebook’

8. EMarketer – Meet the UK Digital Nation
A summary of the current state of UK internet and mobile

9. EMarketer – Retailers Get Social with Facebook

10. Techcrunch – LinkedIn Means Business With New Application Platform
Major news from the business social network, applications can now be built for the site