social networking
'Social networking sites a drag on productivi...
Submitted by Ameya Tare on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 11:21
Corporate employees on an average spend 60 minutes on social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook in office hours, leading to loss of productivity, a survey said.“Close to 12.5% of productivity of human resource in corporate sector is misappropriated each day since a vast majority of them while away their time accessing social networking sites during office hours,” industry body Assocham said in a survey.
Social Network Use in the Office Could Spur Better...
Submitted by Ameya Tare on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 13:35
Social networking has generally been discouraged in the workplace, with many corporate IT departments blocking access to sites like Facebook and MySpace due to privacy concerns. But these efforts are becoming increasingly futile as our lives continue to converge with social networks, analysts at a Gartner symposium said yesterday. Plus, social networking may even help workers “feel valued, a part of a community, and earn the respect of peers.”
Enterprise Social Network Adds Analytics
Submitted by Ameya Tare on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 13:03
The Social Business Intelligence (SBI) suite is a proprietary suite of analytics that Socialcast said can provide insight into real-time microblogging activity as well as informal social activity."As more information is exchanged along the social graph in the enterprise, it's becoming more important to learn how to leverage that and figure out who are the brokers and connectors inside a company," Socialcast founder and CEO Tim Young told InternetNews.com.
Twitter Has 'Lists' and Location on Tap
Submitted by vitthal on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 15:38
Twitter today took a step toward making it easier for users to organize and manage all of the updates their contacts post.The microblogging phenomenon said that it's testing a new service called Lists with a small subset of its users. In a blog post, Lists project lead Nick Kallen said it's designed to help Twitter users store and manage lists of accounts they follow.
Facebook Connect Charges Forward
Submitted by tejash on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 15:29
Facebook has come a long, long way from a social network limited to college students. Today, Facebook announced Facebook Connect Wizard, a major enhancement to Facebook Connect, its tool designed to integrate Facebook with other Web sites.The news follows last night's announcement of another release, Translations for Facebook Connect. Translations is a free tool designed to help simplify the process of translating the content on a Web site into any of the over 65 languages Facebook supports.
IBM Gives Lotus Connections a Web 2.0 Makeover
Submitted by krutika on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 11:51
A series of new social networking tools and features for its Lotus Connections 2.5 software, giving users an opportunity to better customize and manage their collaborative enterprise applications.IBM (NYSE: IBM) and all the other top-tier business application providers including Microsoft, Google, SAP and Oracle have made no secret of their desire to bring consumer applications derived in the social networking arena into the enterprise to improve productivity, collaboration and drive new sales.
Facebook, Twitter and Social Media Marketing
Submitted by manasi on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 14:37
Facebook and Twitter see the highest adoption rate in social media marketing while customer reviews rank No. 1 for increasing sales and customer engagement, according to a study released Wednesday.Retailers are revving up their social media marketing efforts as the past six months show aggressive adoption of the emerging trend with Facebook and Twitter leading the way, according to the report, "Community and Social Media Study," conducted by the e-commerce consulting firm the e-tailing group and online customer review firm PowerReviews.
Asian social networking sites profit from virtual ...
Submitted by anuja on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 17:02
Chinese university student Tan Shengrong spends about 20 yuan ($2.90) per month purchasing outfits for her pet penguin avatar or playing games on QQ, an instant message portal on Qzone, China's most popular social networking site.
Old Scam Is New Again on Facebook
Submitted by jayesh on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 15:45
Security experts have been warning for months that social networks leave people more vulnerable to scams because of the atmosphere of trust they promote.Facebook representatives did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Internet over the last 40 years
Submitted by sushant on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 15:17
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Instead the researchers sought to create an open network for freely exchanging information, an openness that ultimately spurred the innovation that would later spawn the likes of YouTube, Facebook and the World Wide Web.Key milestones in the development and growth of the Internet:
