Big Blue Embraces Social Media
IBM has been encouraging social networking among its employees with in-house versions of Web 2.0 hits such as Facebook and Twitter
has Dogear, a community-tagging system based on Del.icio.us
Blue Twit, and a rendition of the microblogging sensation
as a Web page called Many Eyes that permits anyone (including outsiders, at many-eyes.com) to upload any kind of data, visualize it
ready attracted 30,000 users, including top executives.
global company with nearly 400,000 employees, most people are too far away to plop down in a teammate's cubicle or grab a cup of coffee.
These social tools, IBM hopes, will provide a substitute for personal connections that flew away with globalization—and help to build and strengthen far-flung teams
Atlas culls information from e-mail and instant chat, and helps people map and visualize their networks of contacts. It highlights links between people, helping managers locate experts on certain topics or salespeople who know a certain customer. Launched five months ago, Atlas is already running in 200 companie
says that it's "the fastest-growing software product in IBM history."
They see that it strengthens what are called "weak ties.
eif says that in recent months a host of top executives at Big Blue have jumped into Beehive, leading many others to do the same
Bloggers all want the one thing. Traffic! It makes sense. When you first started out blogging you were probably hoping for thousands of visitors every day, dozens of comments and maybe even a bit of income, right? Well, in the meantime you might have found out that traffic is indeed a myth and your blog resembles a starving human stuck in the middle of the desert.
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Although the Internet is already a valuable information resource in medicine, there are important challenges to be faced before physicians and general users will have extensive access to this information. As a result of a research effort to compile a health-related Internet directory, new tools and strategies have been developed to solve key problems derived from the explosive growth of medical information on the Net and the great concern over the quality of such critical information. The current Internet search engines lack some important capabilities. We suggest using second generation tools (client-side based) able to deal with large quantities of data and to increase the usability of the records recovered. [...] The evaluation of the quality of health information available on the Internet could require a large amount of human effort. A possible solution may be to use quantitative indicators based on the hypertext visibility of the Web sites. The cybermetric measures are valid for quality evaluation if they are derived from indirect peer review by experts with Web pages citing the site. The hypertext links acting as citations need to be extracted from a controlled sample of quality super-sites.
hierin wordt beschreven hoe de kwaliteit van online resources wordt bepaald door de citaties, oftewel links, op sites van experts die de resource citeren (en dus naartoe linken). Dat is 1 manier om kwaliteit te beoordelen.
Since both the blogosphere and the traditional media is abuzz today with the news about a cyberattack against Georgian official websites presumably organized by Russia (and I have already claimed that I believe the Russian hackers really did not need any special request to get started with the DDoS attack), I thought I'd mention another aspect of the situation that is remotely related to this one and proves my point again
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