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Social Sciences will become more important than IT to IT departments
White Papers Technology is becoming a fundamentally social medium, bringing employees ever closer together. This Gartner paper from IBM looks at how organisations can harness new social technologies to dramatically raise organizational effectiveness.
[December 7, 2007, 13:10]
Social Network Visualiser
Downloads Social Network Visualiser - (SNV) is a GPL program designed to allow people draw, visualise and layout social networks. SNV can read and write various network file formats, such as PAJEK, sociomatrix and dot.
[May 21, 2006, 8:00]
Social media's double edged sword
Blog Professional network Ecademy felt the full bite of social media today after banning a member for disagreeing with some sentiments posted by founder Penny Power in her blog. This is how social media can bite you.
[August 1, 2008, 8:03]
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: 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 Engineering: Techniques That Can Bypass Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to explain how Social Engineering can defeat Intrusion Detection (ID) Systems. Companies and organizations are still not fully addressing or understanding the issue of Social Engineering.
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
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 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 Security
Blog In this Social 2.0 World we have created, I'm finding it hard to keep track of all my identities scattergunned across the internet, let alone my multitude of Pa55w0rd5, keywords, PINs and security questions.
[September 14, 2009, 12:00]
Social networks poised to shape Net's future
News Social networks, mobile video and "Googlism" will continue to transform the Net in years ahead, Piper Jaffray analysts said on Monday at the opening of its annual Global Internet Summit. The conference, in its second year, will focus on several...
[June 13, 2006, 9:50]
Social Optimality of Alternative Business Models
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to introduce some basic terminology of consumer theory and methods for analyzing social optimality. These are then applied to study the social optimality of the main business models in Wireless LAN (WLAN) Hotspot market...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Greatest security risk: Social engineering, says Gartner
News The greatest security risk facing large companies and individual Internet users over the next 10 years will be the increasingly sophisticated use of social engineering to bypass IT security defences, according to analyst firm Gartner.
[November 1, 2004, 7:39]
Social Media Requirements
White Papers This white paper outlines a process that can be used for the implementation of a B2B social network platform. It also provides social media requirements. Examples could be a partner directory, a way for customers to share applications and best...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
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]
MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: Social Engineering and Mitigating System Vulnerability (Level 200)
White Papers Most clever technical attacks begin with some assistance from social engineering. This webcast defines social engineering and reviews a number of real-world hacks that began with social engineering efforts.
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Could "Fremium" social media evolve into a pay once unlimited access model?
Blog Comment But I think there are aspects of currently free social media sites that people would pay for, if offered over and above what is currently available for free. Setting up a business that depends on advertising isn't such a dumb move -- it's how...
[July 8, 2009, 10:29]
Social CRM Comes of Age
White Papers Since 2003, the impact of the social communications makeover has shifted ownership of the customer/company relationship to control in the hands of the customer - which changes how businesses must respond to that customer.
[September 28, 2009, 14:07]
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 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 Features in Outlook
Talkback Regarding Social Connector, you don't have to wait until next year.you can get these features (and more) in Xobni now. Xobni has shown that bringing in social elements into the inbox is very powerful (3 million downloads), so Microsoft’s...
[November 18, 2009, 21:51]
