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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. However, I joined MySpace in 2006 to network with individuals who refused to use Facebook and to return to my liberal ways of accepting a lot more friend requests than I normally would. > click.

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8 Open Source Projects from Google

Idaconcpts

The resident geeks at web server host 34SP.com say GWT is a packaged toolkit designed to make building browser-based applications easier. If you need a high-performance AJAX web application that works in browsers without a lot of tweaking, GWT might be right for you. Feeling particularly geeky? Website got you down? EarthSurfer.

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Will Facebook Be the Next AOL?

Socialized

Partially closed operating system. If your favorite application didn’t work with AOL, too bad. Graphically, Facebook has a consistent look-and-feel since it has locked up its page layout and design, unlike its ailing former competitor MySpace. Walled garden. You don’t use apps, you use Facebook apps.).

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Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress

Firebelly

. | Main | Stop tweeting about the # of followers you have » October 23, 2009 Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress WordPress was originally made as a blog publishing application but has now evolved into a huge content management system (CMS). These are what turn the basic blog program into a full content management system.

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New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter

Almost Savvy

Some people are already using ad-blocking applications to get rid of this. your address book and your CRM system). I am very concerned about privacy and don’t want to give access to my Gmail account to any application. OK, already. What does Rapportive do? I pretty much ignore them. Good for you.

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Intranet Blog :: E-mail fatigue

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Applications. E-mail is perhaps the biggest killer application in recent technology history. intellectual property is contained in the messages and attachments they send through their e-mail systems (source: Message Therapy, CIO Magazine, January, 2005). Email is an inefficient document sharing system. Applications.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Why is it that these web applications allow users to rate an article before they’re even forwarded to it? The numbers would be a lot more representative if this approach was implemented, and the incentive to have users gaming these systems would be substantially diminished. This is a win-win approach. Does that make more sense?