The social aspects of the World Wide Web. It includes social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook as well as the future Dataweb, which enables people and organizations to contact each other with persistent human-friendly names. See social networking site, XRI and XDI.
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- Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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- The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- SEC introduces IDEA
- Earlier today, Christopher Cox, SEC chairman introduced IDEA - Interactive Data and Electronic Applications, an XBRL framework for surfacing information used by investors. In prepared remarks, Cox said: "It will be faster, cheaper, better [than EDGAR.] Better data analysis will have a positive impact on the market as a whole....
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 2
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Yahoo Buzz! opens up, let the gaming begin
- Buzz, Yahoo's social news site and "meme tracker", has opened its submission process so that any site on the Web can now be 'buzzed'. Prior to today, only select publishers were allowed into the program, with around 400 sites vying for the top prize of being featured on the Yahoo.com...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Web site categories with heavy reliance on search engine traffic, June 2008
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools
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- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headaches
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- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Yahoo Buzz opens up to all Web publishers
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- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
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- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IBM: Measure, measure and measure some more
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- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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