social networks
RSS social networksCharting a Web 2.0 Strategy
White Paper Wikis, blogs, social networks, AJAX rarely does a day go by without these terms being hurled at from different directions and this has resulted in these becoming mnemonics for Web 2.0. The confusion... [04 Aug 2008]
Exec job hunters turn to social networking
News These social networks are now rivalling executive online job boards in popularity, according to research from recruitment consultancy Harvey Nash. Of the networks used by executives,... [31 Jul 2008]
Superfast London Olympic network gets underway
News It also has to link to the outside world and match the huge demand for pictures and information, be it to TVs, mobile phones, social networks or whatever else is being used in 2012. The network will... [31 Jul 2008]
Start-ups try to cut slice of Google pie
News Advertisers on social networks, he said, could eventually benefit from a single tool that could trace how ads are performing with other types of media. Clickable CEO David Kidder said that part of the... [30 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment It's not just social networks that are facing pressure to improve the policing of content on their sites. A landmark ruling against eBay amounts to more than the multimillion-euro fine imposed by the court. [22 Jul 2008]
Social Issues in Self-Provisioned Metropolitan Area Networks
White Paper This position paper frames a set of issues in the collaborative development of self - provisioned Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs). The paper closes by introducing several social and technical issues... [18 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News He said: "[Students] need to be taught something about techniques for looking at structures, tracking data through complex networks, how to understand the basic economics and social psychology of... [14 Jul 2008]
Exinda Networks Lends a Helping Hand to the Salvation Army's IT Network
White Paper The IT team selected a solution from Exinda Networks. The Salvation Army in Australia provided more than one million episodes of assistance to individuals and families and spent more than $500 million on its many... [11 Jul 2008]
Multi-Bid Auctions for Bandwidth Allocation in Communication Networks
White Paper This paper designs a bandwidth pricing mechanism that solves congestion problems in communication networks. The scheme is based on second-price auctions, which are known to be incentive compatible when a single... [11 Jul 2008]
Adaptive-SDR: Adaptive Swarm-Based Distributed Routing
White Paper Its attractive features include adaptation, robustness and a distributed, decentralized nature, rendering swarm-based algorithms well-suited for routing in wireless or satellite networks, where it is difficult it... [11 Jul 2008]
Businesses ignoring social networking potential?
News Out of 4,000 PC and mobile phone users across 18 countries Gartner found that 38 per cent connected to social networks using PCs and less than one per cent using a mobile phone. Businesses need to be... [10 Jul 2008]
Stimulating Social Engagement in a Community Network
White Paper One of the most challenging problems facing builders and facilitators of community networks is to create and sustain social engagement among members. This paper investigates the drivers of... [09 Jul 2008]
Geoinformatic Hotspot Systems (GHS) for Detection, Prioritization, and Early Warning
White Paper The efforts are driven by a wide variety of case studies of potential interest to federal agencies involving critical society issues, such as public health, ecosystem health, biosurveillance, biosecurity, sensor... [03 Jul 2008]
Search in Power-Law Networks
White Paper Many communication and social networks have power-law link distributions, containing a few nodes which have a very high degree and many with low degree. The high connectivity nodes play the important... [03 Jul 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed long-time rival MySpace in worldwide unique... [24 Jun 2008]
