Can Microsoft turn SharePoint into a Web contender? - 1 views
A Look At Failed Social Networks - 1 views
2 reasons most social networks aren't successful and 3 things you can do about it - 3 views
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– Cluster Coefficient: This will give you an idea of how cohesive your network is. It’s pretty simple, just how many links you have in your network as a percentage of total potential links (which you can calculate by n(n-1)/2)
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Finally, I would encourage you to read “6 Degrees” by Watts and “Linked” by Barabasi. Both are primary network theory pioneers and give accounts that are much more readable and informative than journalists write.
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A tribe would eventually choose a host based on convenience (members are already using it, easy navigation, rapid sharing of communication, etc.), integration (Facebook Connect, Google Connect), and to some extent, available applications for members to use while being logged on to the network. Facebook excels in all three
About Loopt | Loopt - 1 views
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Loopt shows users where friends are located and what they are doing via
detailed, interactive maps on their mobile phones. Loopt helps friends
connect on the fly and navigate their social lives by orienting them to
people, places and events.
Google Says, Have Your AJAX and SEO, Too - InternetNews.com - 0 views
FCC Chairman: Spectrum deficit could set wireless data back 50 years | Wireless News - Beta... - 0 views
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"We are fast entering a world where mass-market mobile devices consume thousands of megabytes each month," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski warned at CTIA Wireless yesterday. "So we must ask: what happens when every mobile user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry Tour, or whatever the next device is? What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile broadband on their laptops or netbooks?
"The short answer: We will need a lot more spectrum."
How Social Media is Upending the Enterprise - 0 views
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The long-held notion that companies control the conversation is being challenged by social media.
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In a world where any customer can, in seconds, tweet or post to Facebook a pithy product review or share an experience they had with a brand, companies are forced to entirely rethink how they interact with their customers. Step one, probably the hardest step, is realizing they are no longer in control. The power of social media has empowered the consumer to reach literally hundreds or thousands of people in seconds. And because we know a consumer’s closest friends are three to five times more likely to share the same preferences for products and brands, this newfound power is not to be underestimated.
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Get Satisfaction has a fantastic manifesto, or “Company-Customer Pact," which defines a new relationship between a brand and its customers, encouraging public dialog, warts and all, but expecting productive discussion in return for the company’s helpful engagement.
Biggest cloud of all: Amazon EC2 makes about $220 million a year - 0 views
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Randy Bias just published estimates that AWS is pulling in about $220 million annually for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offerings.
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He also estimates that AWS runs about 40,000 servers to support the service. EC2 probably grew at a rate of 10% from year to year, Randy believes.
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Amazon has really effectively leveraged the capacity from its retail business to offer services to the rest of the market. Is this something other companies with large IT infrastructures can contemplate?
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