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News The latest statistics from ComScore show social networking sites such as Facebook are growing rapidly across the globe, even as that growth slows down in the US where they originated. Earlier on Tuesday, performance firm Pingdom released numbers... [13 Aug 2008]
Enterprise 2.0: How Companies Are Adopting the Newest Web 2.0 Technologies
White Paper The trends are unmistakable - social media, an obscure phenomenon only a few years ago, is taking hold of global business at a blinding pace. In a recent Melcrum survey of corporate executives, 55% were either already using blogs or planning to... [03 Jul 2008]
Vilkas Adds Mobile Blogging to A.M.P Advanced Messaging Platform
White Paper Mblogging has evolved from web logging ("blogging") which itself has become a social phenomenon on the web. This paper is about the version 2.6 of the Vilkas A.M.P MMS messaging platform. Mobile weblogging, or m-blogging for short, has become a hot... [03 Jul 2008]
Kindness in Cyberspace? the Sharing of Valuable Goods On-line
White Paper The phenomenon has received little academic attention, and popular press coverage has attributed its existence to technological developments, overlooking the social context that underlies it. Based on qualitative research methods, the article... [03 Jul 2008]
Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown
News Despite this, the social networking phenomenon has grown by 712 per cent in the UK over the past 12 months according to the latest stats from web intelligence group Nielsen Online. One of the earliest social networks, Friends Reunited, lost 47 per... [22 Feb 2008]
BlackBerry backs the social networking 'revolution'
News Once social networking becomes a B2B phenomenon - not unlike IM and texting - I believe every single social networking user will want a data plan," he told the Congress audience. The secret of the BlackBerry's success is security, according to RIM... [13 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up The uber-social networking phenomenon - Facebook, not the CIO Jury - is being snubbed by professional executives because of the increasing number of "silly applications" and lack of business use. And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac... [18 Jan 2008]
Facebook opens up its Platform
News But others are waiting until the code has proven itself stable - and that has meant OpenSocial is still largely a concept, not a concrete phenomenon. Facebook has announced the architecture for its developer platform will be made available to other... [13 Dec 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Heralding the beginning of the botnet phenomenon, Sobig was rapidly followed by a whole host of imitators such as MyDoom, Netsky and Bagel. Storm also caught people off-guard with sophisticated social engineering attacks, such as 4 July or... [19 Nov 2007]
Mobile Multiplayer Gaming, Part 3: Multiplayer Games With Bluetooth
White Paper But gaming is fundamentally a social phenomenon, and it makes sense that one would want to challenge players within earshot. The focus of the mobile gaming industry, centers on the wide-area wireless capabilities of mobile devices. [07 Nov 2007]
Tougher times ahead for social networks
News The Datamonitor report - entitled The Future of Social Networking: understanding market strategic and technological developments - predicts growth in the number of people signing up to be a part of the cultural phenomenon which has put the likes... [19 Oct 2007]
Stories of the Month - August 2007
News The tech savviness of school leavers may have a lot to do with Facebook but nearly half (43 per cent) of workers said the social networking phenomenon has been banned in their workplace. The skills crisis is still giving IT bosses sleepless nights... [31 Aug 2007]
Leader: Should you ban Facebook?
Leader The rise and rise of social networking phenomenon Facebook has put the spotlight on how businesses should monitor and respond to staff use of such sites during the working day. It's just a fad," maybe a common response to putting in a social... [31 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.08.07
Round-Up Sophos' Graham Cluley said: "I think it's a growing concern for employers for a number of reasons," referring to the social networking phenomenon and not his company's surveys. Well the anxiety-ridden managers could ban all access to social... [24 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake
Comment I say Facebook as the social networking phenomenon du jour but give yourself points for the mention of Bebo (usually paired with the phrase "my kids. It seems there are layers of social networking. Heard about the new game? [31 Jul 2007]
