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Friendster Scales-Out With MySQL Network: Social Networking Site Handles Over One Billion Database Queries Per Day
White Papers To manage such a large (and growing) enterprise, Friendster selected MySQL Network to provide the right combination of affordable database reliability and scalability. However, as the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster is up to...
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
Using E-Mail Social Network Analysis for Detecting Unauthorized Accounts
White Papers This paper details the use of e-mail social network analysis for the detection of security policy violations on computer systems. They then extract the social networks of three organizations by analyzing e-mail server logs collected over several...
[November 3, 2008, 0:01]
Deployment of a Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Social Network
White Papers This paper presents the design and architecture of the Maze file-sharing and social network. Maze includes an evolving incentive structure, and simple mechanisms for providing network locality. Maze is one of the first large-scale deployments of an...
[September 7, 2006, 3:18]
We don't need another social network
Talkback The only way a new player can ensure your privacy is by abandoning the advertising as a way to generate income, this means charging you for membership, are you willing to pay to be on a social network?
[March 2, 2008, 18:06]
Huddle.net launches on XING business social network
Blog Having built up a fairly apoplectic level of irritation with social network Plaxo despite having stuck with LinkedIn, I was initially deflated to be targeted with yet more news of a so-called ‘business social network’ this time in the shape of XING.
[July 22, 2009, 15:33]
Huddle.net launches on XING business social network
Blog Comment I wonder how many of the apps business focused social networks are offering will be blown apart by the collaborative aspects of Google Wave, when combined with other Google Apps offerings? To my mind many of the recent additions to LinkedIn and...
[July 27, 2009, 14:44]
SightSpeed Light Available on hi5 Social Network
Blog I have just seen the announcement that SightSpeed Light is available on the hi5 social networking site. Instant, spontaneous video chat, or video messaging, without having to download or install anything, well integrated with the popular social...
[June 23, 2008, 11:26]
How will emerging tech affect your company?
News This social-network analysis was recently used by the US National Security Agency (NSA) in a wiretapping operation that outraged many Americans. Gartner said social-network analysis can be used successfully by businesses to identify target markets...
[August 9, 2006, 13:35]
Google's Lively, but not adding much for the business community
Blog Long rumoured by now upon us without any formal pre-announcement, Google gives us Lively, it's new social network with plans to be all over the web soon. Think Second Life meets IMVU, the avatar based 3D social network popular with teens, and you...
[July 9, 2008, 10:03]
Facebook to fork out £5.9m in privacy settlement
News Facebook has settled a year-old class-action lawsuit that targeted the social network's alleged failure to provide adequate information and privacy controls to users with regard to Beacon, which shared information about users' information on third...
[September 21, 2009, 14:44]
Web 2.0 meets CRM: the perfect business application
Blog Got a social network struggling to make money? So I could easily have written off LinkedIn’s announcement last week: the business focused social network raised $27 million blah blah. CEO Marc Benioff likes to innovate, so will Salesforce.com start...
[October 29, 2008, 15:03]
LinkedIn and the one way street on social graph portability
Blog Has a "cease and desist" notice to a niche social network inadvertently revealed LinkedIn's hand regarding the Social Web and contact portability? As a network for sales leads and business referrals we also offer this capability at WeCanDo.BIZ...
[April 2, 2009, 14:02]
SNARF from Microsoft Research
Downloads Microsoft Research's Community Technology presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder. SNARF was built around the notion that social network information that is already available to the computer system can be usefully reflected...
[December 29, 2005, 23:04]
Centrl
Downloads Centrl social network connects with your friends, share your favorite locations, discover new places, meet new people and find special money saving offers in your iPhone. You can login to Centrl from your existing social-network.
[August 10, 2009, 9:22]
10 common social engineering ploys... and how to protect against them
White Papers Just as talented hackers can use their programming skills to exploit applications, operating systems, and protocols to get inside your company's network, talented social engineers can breach your network by using their people skills and powers of...
[May 25, 2006, 3:17]
VISA helps Facebook to woo small businesses
Blog Interesting news this week that VISA has signed a deal with Facebook to offer services to small businesses on the latter's social network. LinkedIn is further positioning itself as a social network for people who happen to be in business, rather...
[June 25, 2008, 13:02]
Yahoo highlights VoIP with IM beta
News Yahoo has introduced a beta version of its instant-messaging (IM) software that promotes VoIP services and the Internet media company's new social network. Yahoo also meshed the new application with Yahoo 360°, a social network featuring free blogs...
[May 18, 2005, 10:10]
Facebook users targeted by Zeus banking Trojan
News Hot on the heels of one fake Facebook email scam, a researcher warned on Wednesday of another such campaign in which users of the popular social network are being tricked into revealing their passwords and downloading a Trojan that steals...
[October 29, 2009, 9:58]
Social networking and portability
Blog One of the more interesting speakers at Infosec's "Locking Down Social Networking Vulnerabilities" event today - itself locked down by a power cut just as Facebook's Max Kelly was cutting to the nub of his gist - was Giles Hogben of the European...
[April 22, 2008, 16:39]
Playground
Downloads And they is a completely social network connectible with another well-known community site like Facebook, Hi5, Twitter, and Multiply. Playground itself is explicitly social network site with tons of features like sharing media, blogging and sees...
[July 27, 2009, 10:46]
