Starting this week, we’re beginning to roll out new gadgets leveraging Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S. With the new social gadgets, users will be able to share content, play games and collaborate with friends right on their iGoogle page. A few examples of the new social gadgets include: Content Sharing – NPR [...]
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Facebook Generation Carries Social Software in the Enterprise
August 6th, 2009 |
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Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, along with blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and other messaging and collaboration tools, are finding their way into the workplace as enterprise applications. Analysts from Nielsen Norman, IDC and Gilbane say front-line workers are leading the charge, forcing senior management to go with the flow or stem the tide. The Facebook Generation wants to network with colleagues to communicate and collaborate.
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Despite hype surrounding the use of wikis, blogs, social
networks and other tools in the workplace, social software in businesses is
still more of a grassroots effort led by frontline users than it is a
company-wide collaboration practice, according to a new Nielsen Norman Group
st…
Nokia Acquires Social Networking Software Company Cellity
July 24th, 2009 |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia buys German social networking software maker Cellity. Cellity’s software consolidates and manages addresses from multiple sources such as Outlook, Twitter and other social networking sites.
– Nokia said July 24 it has acquired Cellity, a German social networking
software company that specializes in consolidating address management from
different sources such as a cell phone address book, Outlook, and Twitter and
other social networking services. Terms of the transaction were not discl…
10 Ways IT Managers Can Deal with Social Media
July 17th, 2009 |
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With persistent reports about hacker attacks, compromised privacy and phishing scams, social networks can be scary places. But that doesn’t mean the corporate world should run. IT managers can establish policies that protect corporate network and data security without shutting out social networks altogether. Here are some of the issues IT managers should keep in mind when dealing with social networks.
– Social networking is an important part of the lives of most Web
surfers. After people get home from work, they go to their computers,
see what their friends are up to on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter and
go about their lives.
There’s just one problem: those social networks are being hit ha…
Does Facebook Use in The Office Lead to Social Notworking?
July 15th, 2009 |
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Nucleus Research finds that corporate works lose nearly 1.5 percent of office productivity by using Facebook at work, the latest study on whether social networking sites hinder or help enterprises. The research firm also found Facebook is used as an alternative messaging and collaboration platform to Outlook, Gmail and other tools. This may pose security risks.
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Corporate employees fritter away nearly 1.5 percent of
office productivity by using Facebook at work, according to a new study From Nucleus
Research.
The research firm interviewed 237 randomly selected office workers
about their Facebook use and also found that the social network …
ATandT Targets Social Networkers with Nokia Surge
July 13th, 2009 |
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The Nokia Surge mobile device, running Symbian S60, aims for the sweet spot between a quick messaging phone and a smartphone with multimedia and support for instant messaging, text and e-mail. AT T will offer the Nokia Surge in stores and online.
– Playing to the social networking crowd, AT amp;T plans to offer the Nokia
Surge July 19 in stores and online. The Symbian S60-based smartphone features a
full QWERTY keyboard and a browser with Flash, and supports instant messaging,
text messaging, multimedia messages and e-mail. It allows users …
Attorney General Cuomo Takes on Tagged Social Networking Site
July 10th, 2009 |
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to sue social networking site Tagged.com for allegedly stealing the identities of its members, raiding their e-mail contact lists and sending out spam in a bid to lure recipients to the site. Tagged’s CEO denies the accusations.
– New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo threw a legal right hook
at social networking site Tagged.com July 9, charging the site with spamming
and stealing the identities of 60 million of its users.
Cuomo served the site with a notice of intent, marking his
plan to sue Tagged.com for allegedly ra…