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- Microsoft gives Windows Live a social networking makeover
- Microsoft have announced a major overhaul of its Windows Live service that, similar to Yahoo's ‘Open Strategy', rewires the company's suite of consumer web-based products to turn them into one interconnected social network. Although Microsoft would rather you didn't use that word. by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear, Web, Mobile
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Social network for CEOs – best practices
- The Best & Worst of Business Networks Yesterday, I spoke with Ken Ross, the serial entrepreneur who has launched several successful software firms (e.g., Ross Systems, Pillar). Ken's a really nice fellow and someone whose company and counsel I value. I called Ken...
- Tags: Network, Best Practice, CEO, Ken, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Spoke resorts to fear tactics, loses credibility
- Other companies, especially Web 2.0 and social networking companies, can learn a valuable lesson from Spoke's antics. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Web 2.0, Social Networking, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio, Job, E-mail
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Solar activism meets social networking
- Aside from green tech, I regularly write about practical business applications for Web 2.0 technologies and services. (Yes, there are remarkably many.) So I was quite interested to notice that a grassroots community solar organization that I wrote about last month, One Block Off the Grid, was snapped up this...
- Tags: Network, California, Activism, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- 63% of men visit social networking sites
- Break Media looked at top activities by males online, which include visiting social networking sites (63%), playing video games (60%), playing computer games (51%), forwarding links to online video (31%), reading blogs (31%), shopping (30%), commenting on online content (28%), and uploading photos to the Web (23%). Interestingly, the findings...
- Tags: Network, Video, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Games, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, NB, Video Game
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- With Glue, AdaptiveBlue frees us from the tyranny of the site
- Glue from AdaptiveBlue has been out since late last month, and various sites have provided reviews of this useful little tool. See, for example, Dan Farber, Chris Morrison, Sarah Perez, and Jennifer Zaino. I am not going to write another review. I would, however, recommend that you...
- Tags: Network, Site, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- ExpertCEO for the lonely CEO . . .
- It can get very lonely at the top and that's why ExpertCEO was created, to let CEOs know that they aren't alone -- it just feels that way sometimes. The site recently emerged from private beta with 600 members and is growing at a fast clip...
- Tags: Mr., CEO, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Sales, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Koobface Facebook worm still spreading
- Originally spreading since July, the Koobface worm remains active according to a recent security alert issued by Websense : "The email reveals that infected user accounts are being used to post messages to Facebook friends lists. The content was an enticing message with a link that used a Facebook...
- Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, Malware, Worm, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- A fraud ring or social networking - it's the same thing
- Silicon.com sat down with SAS's CEO in Las Vegas this week to find out his thoughts on cloud computing, succession planning and the iPhone. SAS is unique among tech heavyweights for its private ownership - the business intelligence BI company has been run for more than 30 years by...
- Tags: Social Networking, Succession Planning, Apple iPhone, Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Analytics, Credit Card, SAS Institute, Fraud, CEO, M&A Money, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Finance, Investment, Jo Best, Silicon.com, SAS, cloud computing, succession planning, iPhone, Jim Goodnight, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-11-07
- New and updated S60 apps include Friend View social application and RoadSync 4.0
- I keep going back to placing my AT&T SIM into the Nokia E71 because it is such a powerful and slick smartphone. In the last couple of days a few new and updated applications were released for S60 that I just added myself and wanted to share with you all....
- Tags: Application, Nokia Corp., Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Flash Memory, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller, HTML, S60, Flixwagon, Social Networking, Web Site Development, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Office Suites, Software
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- MI6 searching for the next generation
- Whilst walking the streets of London, with half a baguette in one hand and a coffee in the other, I am no more than 10 feet away from someone who tells people you're no more than 10 feet away from a rat. I call them civil servants personally, wandering around...
- Tags: Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Web 2.0 Summit: Focus on solving problems, not overnight fortunes
- updated: In opening remarks at the Web 2.0 Summit 2008 in San Francisco, Tim O'Reilly took a moment to highlight the bright side of a stormy economic outlook. Sure, there's been some chatter about the demise of the startup world, how economic forces will impact the venture capital world and,...
- Tags: Web, Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Vote for president via... Facebook?
- As of 6 a.m. PT today, 1,149,790 users were campaigning via Facebook Causes -- a jump from just over 400K yesterday afternoon. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Facebook, Jennifer Leggio, Facebook Causes Application, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- MTV and MySpace partner to monetize pirated content
- Similar to YouTube's most recent proposition to copyright holders, News Corp-owned MySpace is offering to identify pirated content uploaded by users, insert advertising and share the subsequent fruits with the content's owner. by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: MySpace, MTV, Steve O\'Hear, YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., Games, Social Networking, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Enough already with the Luddite schools
- We have a great private school right next door to my house. It's K-6, wonderfully crunchy, and cranking out socially conscious kids at a reasonable price. The teachers are outstanding, dedicated, and unbound by NCLB. So why isn't my youngest there? It's next door and almost...
- Tags: School, Social Networking, Engineering, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- FaceBook Virgin Airlines Fiasco
- There was a fairly major example of how external social networks can spin out of control last week: Virgin Atlantic which despite its name is a major international airline that flies all over the world have a FaceBook presence, with 6,944 members as I write this. ...
- Tags: Facebook, Virgin Atlantic, Social Networking, Corporate Governance, Marketing Research, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts
- The concept of building a fraudulent ecosystem by abusing legitimate services only is nothing new, and as we've already seen numerous times throughout the year, malicious attackers are actively embracing it. Bebo, the popular social networking site is currently under attack from spammers that are automatically registering thousands of bogus...
- Tags: Bebo, Spammer, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Classroom 2.0 and the joys of Ning
- I've joined a couple of social networks in the last 24 hours, both powered by Ning. The first was the OSUM network I blogged about on Thursday. The second was Classroom 2.0, a network dedicated to, not surprisingly, using Web 2.0 tools like Ning in education. ...
- Tags: Network, Ning, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Plurk dissolves into social networking ghost town
- Plurk dissolves into social networking ghost townPlurk's KarmaI just couldn't get to the plus side of the whole Karma thing. It's enough for me to post messages and read responses to Friends... but trying to get new friends to join and making sure I post enough to "purchase" new cute...
- Tags: network, Plurk, social networking ghost town, ghost town, social networking
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Plurk dissolves into social networking ghost town
- I was momentarily hot on Plurk even amid a sea of seemingly valid criticism but it fell of of my -- and everyone else's -- radar. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Network, Plurk, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio, Twitter, Service
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
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