30 days ago
Linkorama : CIA, FBI push 'Facebook for spies' - The program is called A-Space, and it's a social-networking site for analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.
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1 month ago
Linkorama : Social tools are not immune to being used the wrong way - Can blogs be harmful? I think it’s how you use them.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : The Trouble with Twitter - This piece misunderstands the Dunbar number of 150. Its constraint for a moment in time, and who is in your 150 changes all the time
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Here Come The CMS Vendors - We’re at the very beginnings of this journey, with most white labels being around for just a few years, and the established CMS vendors starting to sniff this sector and gather requirements (many are coming to me) we’re clearly at the R&D stage, w
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Why Social Computing Aids Knowledge Management - Social networking tools promise to help companies harness the knowledge inside the heads of their employees and put it to work for the business.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' - "Students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content and thinking about online design and layout," Greenhow continued. "They're also sharing creative original work like poetry and fi
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Linkorama : LinkedIn Closes Its Round - LinkedIn has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. The investment values the business social network at just over $1 billion.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Facebook Eyes Enterprise Market - Instead of worrying about employees spending company time on Facebook, some enterprises may soon have reason to encourage the idea.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Data chart of the week: social networks around the world - If you have the bandwidth of south korea, usage is huge!
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today - Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the purchase price is between $150 and $170 million. Plaxo, which was founded in 2002, has raised just under $30 million in venture capital.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Does Social Networking Kill Search? - The Curations model: experts recommend. The Search model: the crowd recommends. The Social Network model: friends recommend.
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Linkorama : The importance of pigheadedness - But we also need to recognise that the biggest speed bump in social software projects is invariably going to be the social, not the software. The technology is improving every month, mainly because it's being developed by small, nimble vendors who use the
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5 month ago
Rod Begbie : Social Networking Wars // Current - I hadn't seen the "Super News" animations before starting working here, but they can be pretty good -- and this one is excellently geeky. #
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Beyond recent changes: Socialtext 3.0 - onnecting people with people is the natural next step from connecting people with information.
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6 month ago
Linkorama : SocialText Putting A Little Social Into…Enterprise Wikis - TechCrunch
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Socialtext enterprise wiki getting social network features - Webware
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Networks don't have people. People have networks. - The right point of integration is around the individual. Each of us is the center of our own universe.
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Legitimised? - “Social interaction often precedes economic activity.”
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Enter the socialprise - Socialprise applications sit at the junction of traditional enterprise applications and social networks, and they are a mash-up of the information and the user experience between these converging universes.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Six degrees of messaging - They found that the average shortest number of jumps to get from one random user to another was 6.6; spookily close to the infamous six degrees of separation demonstrated practically in a group of 64 people by Stanley Milgram, at Harvard University, in th
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7 month ago
philgyford : Lunch over IP: What social networking site is popular where - A map and charts showing relative popularity of Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, etc in different continents. Amazing how much it varies. (via ChrisDodo)
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Linkorama : Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE - It is customary to think about fashions in things like clothes or music as spreading in a social network. But it turns out that all kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we a
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Linkorama : Business Applications of Social Networking - I'm keynoting this event by the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Findings from the Community Best Practices Workshop - I structured the workshop where we’d identify key problems, then would get folks to share their different best practices, and I’d be sure to add my own. I promised to share all the content and here it is:
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8 month ago
Linkorama : “Interesting, but of no commercial value” - There are many people who criticise social media tools because they perceive them as ways to waste time; these criticisms in turn enter the consciousness of large enterprises and form part of enterprise immune systems, ably and effectively shutting out th
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