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Friendster Scales-Out With MySQL Network: Social Networking Site Handles Over One Billion Database Queries Per Day
White Papers However, as the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster is up to the task - even with 60 million page-views each day. Helping 17 million people stay in touch with their friends and make new connections with others is a big job.
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Comment Interesting to note that it's 776 office workers, who admitted to spending [at least] 30 minutes a day visiting social networking sites! No sign yet of social networking being a resourceful and productive (read: benefit to the bottom line) use of...
[January 22, 2008, 0:08]
Social networking driving server sales
News Social networking is pushing up server sales despite the increasing adoption of virtualisation technology, according to Sun. But Richard Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, said there is no shortage of demand for hardware because of...
[October 5, 2007, 8:35]
Social networking faces an uncertain future
News Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. The Datamonitor report — The future of social networking: Understanding...
[October 19, 2007, 13:22]
Social networking: 3G's killer app?
News Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com, which will soon go mobile, could become key applications driving data usage on new 3G wireless networks. I doubt there will be any single killer application, but social networking on mobile phones...
[April 12, 2006, 11:20]
Social Networking Now Under Big Yellow's Control, Thanks to Bloxx
White Papers Big Yellow was having a problem with employees becoming addicted to Facebook and other social networking sites; visiting them to excess during working hours. Previously, Grinnall tried to use Microsoft ISA Server to manage web access.
[March 10, 2009, 0:21]
Social networking federation: why not use .tel?
Blog An interesting and potentially useful feature of some recent handsets has been the integration of standard mobile phone contacts lists with the user's social networking contacts lists. Yes, I know, there are plenty out there (and none have taken...
[September 18, 2009, 17:05]
Social networking and portability
Blog Comment I totally agree that the social networking companies themselves will never sanction this if they are making money from keeping people's personal data. However - if tools and standards are created which make it possible to move between social...
[May 9, 2008, 17:43]
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]
Social Networking - the downside
Blog The bane of social networking. You might also think that social networking - blogging, Facebook, and so on - is part of the IT business, and thus similarly constructed. There is one underlying problem with the business of social networking that...
[August 24, 2007, 13:49]
Social Networking and The Employer's Dilemma
White Papers Shoosmiths Solicitors and MessageLabs combine to bring you this legal guide to reducing the risks of online social networking. The whitepaper highlights some of the problem areas that cause employers most concern and provides guidance on how...
[November 16, 2007, 4:06]
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Social networking costs UK businesses £6.5bn a year, according to a poll conducted by Global Secure Systems and Infosec 2008. The poll was conducted "amongst 776 office workers, who admitted to spending at least 30 minutes a day visiting social...
[January 21, 2008, 10:44]
Social networking and portability
Blog Comment I have long wondered what Google and Microsoft will do to assert their authority in social networking and maybe this could be the answer. As CEO of a social networking site for business, but someone with a background in infosec, how these two...
[April 24, 2008, 11:26]
Social Networking: The pros, the cons and the solution
White Papers In recent years, social networking sites have permeated society and there is little doubt that they are here to stay. Today's employees expect to be allowed to visit these sites at work. This whitepaper explores how you can to keep your...
[October 7, 2009, 14:47]
Social networking: the key to advancement
News Networking has become such an important part of career development that several social networking portals have recently emerged. Online Social and Business Networking Communities This white paper provides a look at recently developed social...
[October 25, 2004, 12:50]
IT managers told: Don't block social networking
News Analysts at the Gartner Symposium in Florida on Monday told attendees that corporate computing departments should not block social networking, and that security should not lock down communications with the outside world.
[October 20, 2009, 9:06]
Blog and social-networking spam increases
News Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs on Thursday.
[July 6, 2006, 14:20]
From Web Browsing to Social Networking: Securing Employee Internet Use in a Web 2.0 World
White Papers Instead Internet traffic is dominated by Web 2.0 applications such as Video, Voice, IM (Instant Messaging), P2P, and social networking. The Internet has changed. It is no longer about e-mail and web browsing.
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
Skype gets into social networking
News VoIP giant Skype is courting the booming social networking scene with the preview of a new free service to coincide with the release of Skype 2.5 Beta on Wednesday. One feature of Skype 2.5 Beta, 'shared contact groups', also plays to the social...
[May 3, 2006, 13:40]
EC tackles social networking safety
Blog Preventing under-age users from using their services: if a social networking site targets teenagers over 13, it should be difficult for people below that age to register. Techie stuff commissioner Viviane Reding called the agreement "an important...
[February 11, 2009, 16:28]
