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  • 09 November 2011

  • News: China's Sina will not force users to register with real names

    One of China's most popular Twitter-like services, Sina Weibo, said it needs better systems to stop harmful rumors on the site, but doesn't intend to force its users to register with their real names.

  • 08 November 2011

  • News: Google+ Pages: 5 Things You Need to Know Before Signing Up

    After several months of anticipation, Google finally announced Google+ Pages for local businesses, groups, sports, brands, organizations and more. Just a few weeks ago Google granted its Apps customers access to the social network, slowly growing its user base.

  • News: Facebook rebounds from May slump despite Google+

    After Facebook hit a wall and lost 6 million U.S. users last May, the social network has been slowly coming back.

  • News: Social media disaster recovery: A first responder's guide

    Every new technology brings with it the capacity to screw things up in an entirely new way. With social media, it's now become possible to turn what was once a verbal gaffe behind closed doors into a public peccadillo.

  • News: Zuckerberg: Google building "their own little version of Facebook"

    While Google officials, from CEO Larry Page on down, are all aflutter over Google+, Mark Zuckerberg views Google's new social networking site as "their own little version of Facebook."

  • 07 November 2011

  • News: Google+ now open for businesses

    Google is now shaping its Google+ social network for commerce.

  • 03 November 2011

  • News: Enterprise Social Software: What Businesses Need to Do Next

    As Facebook and other social networks have grown in popularity, businesses have started looking for ways to leverage them within the enterprise. The result: an influx of social software companies vying for a spot in business' technology portfolios, and IT and business executives scrambling to map out long-range plans.

  • News: YouTube gets tighter integration with Google+

    Google is making it easier for people to search for, watch and share YouTube videos within the user interface of the Google+ social networking site.

  • News: France's Viadeo taps China for professional social networking

    Professional social networking sites, which once only attracted a small number of users in China, are now in the midst of taking off in the country, according to Dan Serfaty CEO of French company Viadeo.

  • News: AOL discontinues LISTSERV mailing list service

    Ending a service it has offered for well over a decade, AOL is shutting down its free LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations, the company told mailing list administrators.

  • 02 November 2011

  • News: Businesses grapple with social networking

    It's clear that companies are increasingly using social networking to connect with customers--Facebook said brands on its site get 100 million "likes" per day--but it's also clear that they are having varying degrees of success.

  • News: Facebook's Timeline, Still M.I.A. for Most Users

    Six weeks after announcing Timeline, Facebook fans are still waiting for the social network to roll out its new profile layout that helps you organize and surface your past Facebook activity. CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Timeline "the story of your life" and a "new way to express who you are" during an Apple-inspired keynote presentation at Facebook's F8 developer conference in September. At the time, Facebook said Timeline, which will replace the current user Profile view, would be available in a "few weeks," but over a month and a half (and one lawsuit later) users are still waiting.

  • News: Facebook easily infiltrated by data-harvesting bots, researchers find

    Facebook's fake account detection mechanisms can be defeated 80 percent of the time with the help of automated tools, researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) have found after an eight-week test.

  • News: Google Now Indexes Facebook Comments: Paranoid Can Relax

    Google is now indexing AJAX and JavaScript content, which means pages that use this programming--for example, Facebook comments--are now open to being searched.

  • News: Facebook vs. Google+ vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn

    Much has changed since we examined the ongoing war between Facebook and Twitter in the spring of 2010. The stakes are higher, the competition has increased, and we see LinkedIn and Google roaring into the social networking arena like never before.

  • News: Anonymity vs. real names on social networks

    Let's cut to the chase: This one is really about whether Facebook and the new kid on the block, Google+, should get to throw their considerable weight around by requiring that users post to their social-networking sites using real names.

  • News: Allow social media vs. ban social media at work

    The pull of social media is proving hard to resist. Even the most buttoned-down institutions are rethinking bans and relaxing access to social networks and social media sites. But just how far are enterprises willing to wade into the sea of social media?

  • 01 November 2011

  • News: Tap the Social Media Stream for Competitors' Secrets

    Ten years ago, Logicalis, a systems integrator, would have needed a wiretap to overhear the grumblings of a competitor's dissatisfied customer or prospect. But when a Logicalis sales representative stumbled across a LinkedIn status update revealing an individual's frustration with a rival company's cloud service, he knew just what to do.

  • News: Google moves Reader sharing to Plus, despite complaints

    With its upgrade of Google Reader on Monday, Google has shut down the native social content-sharing features of the popular RSS feed manager and shifted the functionality in modified form to Google+.

  • 31 October 2011

  • News: Big-name companies easy target for social engineers

    For a second year, participating hackers took part in a social-engineering, capture-the-flag event this summer's at Defcon 19 security conference. And a newly-released summary of findings from the exercise reveal organizations are highly vulnerable to social engineering.

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