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Why Facebook’s Community Pages Could Give Brands Headaches

Dave Fleet

Right now the content from the pages is pulled from Wikipedia (if available) and from your friends’ updates, so they’re often pretty bare but apparently Facebook plans to enable users to add content in the future. The social network launched roughly 6.5 million of these when they first launched.

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Top 100 Most Innovative and Influential People in the Web 2.0 World

Bill Hartzer

In the social networking category, Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder of Facebook , beat out Kevin Rose, the Founder of Digg. In the search category, the heads of Google , Microsoft , and Yahoo! Stefan Weitz of Microsoft and Carol Bartz of Yahoo were also named, and Jason Calacanis was also named in the Search category.

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Grow Your Wiki

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In the interview: Laurence Lock Lee explains how social network analysis reveals the connections between people and the resulting knowledge distribution network. Thomas Vander Wal explains folksonomy - using social taging to organize knowledge based on interconnections between people. knowledge management. laptop stolen.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Constellation Launch Event - June 11, 2008

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or later, and the free Microsoft Silverlight plugin (you will be prompted to install this when you first visit the Rensselaer Webcast page). “Washington, Wikipedia, and Web 3.0: Viewers will be able to interact with panelists by submitting follow-up questions and comments in real time. Tech specs for Macintosh users: OS X 10.4.8

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Australia Sharepoint Conference June 16/17 2010

Laurel Papworth

and I had a poke around on Wikipedia to read more about the actual software: Microsoft SharePoint , also known as Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies , is a content management system with integrated search functionality developed by Microsoft that allows users to work in a web-based collaborative environment.

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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

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Categories: Computers & Internet , Social Sciences. According to Nature in ‘ Six degrees of messaging ,’ computer scientists at Microsoft Research Redmond lab have logged a full month of instant messengers using — logically — Microsoft Messenger. Tags: IM , Microsoft Corp.

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5 Facebook Stories From This Week You Need To Read

Firebelly

For many sites on the Web, social traffic coming through Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace is beginning to rival, and in some cases overtake, search traffic as the single biggest source of traffic. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia and Amazon combined.

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