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    British doc says social networking is bad for your health

    Posted February 24, 2009 - 10:38 am

    When that annoying woman you went to high school with "superpokes" you, it might not just be irritating; it might also be bad for your health.

  • Smart recruiting through social networks

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 3:14 pm

    Online social networks are a great way to recruit the "best and brightest" and employers only ignore them at their peril.

  • AOL's Bebo social network to gain lifestreaming features

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 3:09 pm

    AOL's Bebo social-networking site will gain features for lifestreaming, an increasingly popular type of online service that lets people broadcast frequent, brief updates about their lives through photos, videos, blog items, comments and other content.

  • Your online reputation: Leveraging LinkedIn

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 3:02 pm

    IT pros concerned about their online reputations should focus on LinkedIn because of its high rank in Google search results. Here's how you can ensure your first online impression is a good one.

  • Thirteen ways to boost your online reputation

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 2:55 pm

    Strategies and tactics to help keep your professional reputation in check.

  • What Google says can make or break your career

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 2:52 pm

    Online reputation can make or break someone's chances of landing a coveted position, especially IT professionals who are evaluated on their tech savvy.

  • Web developers, entrepreneurs meet at FOWA despite crisis

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 1:25 pm

    Optimistic developers and entrepreneurs are gathering in Miami for Carsonified's Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference, which runs Monday and Tuesday.

  • Survey: Twitterati Weigh In on the Future of Social Media

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 12:08 pm

    Abrams Research asked more than 200 social media founders, bloggers, journalists, entrepreneurs and "members of the Twitterati" from across the U.S. and Canada how social networks should be monetized; which social networks are most important to them; what the future for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networks holds; and more. Here are some highlights.

  • LinkedIn Recommendations: Five Ways to Make The Most of Them

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 11:55 am

    Within your LinkedIn profile, recommendations, which you must seek out and approve from contacts of your choosing, give employers a fuller view of you as a direct report, boss, colleague, or client. But you can also do more harm than good with a LinkedIn recommendation.

  • Social Networking at Work: Fear Not Facebook, MySpace?

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 11:50 am

    There is no doubt that Facebook and other social networking sites have potential for commercial use but to what extent should organizations or businesses allow social networking at work? What are the concerns? Should employees have access to Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites when they are supposed to be working?

  • Three Ways Twitter Security Falls Short

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 11:35 am

    The popular micro-blogging platform Twitter continues its explosive growth but it still has a lot to do when it comes to securing the platform. We spoke with two security experts about three areas where Twitter poses some significant risks.

  • Study: Twitter's uptime horrible in 2008, but improving

    Posted February 19, 2009 - 1:33 pm

    Twitter suffered a lot of downtime in 2008, but seems to have gotten the problem under control.

  • Tweet to compete

    Posted February 18, 2009 - 5:13 pm

    You don't have to be on a social network 24 hours a day to enjoy the benefits. Keeping your profile up to date on LinkedIn, staying in touch with former colleagues on Facebook and jumping into the occasional conversation on Twitter is enough to build your social network persona and might find you that perfect hire for a job opening or provide the answer to a vexing question.

  • Twitter's Stone talks search, changing the 'Net

    Posted February 18, 2009 - 11:15 am

    Biz Stone, a co-founder of the company that offers a mixture of social networking and microblogging tools, says Twitter has the potential to significantly expand the Internet and the way we use it. Here, Stone talks about extending Twitter's search capabilities, his favorite Twitter topics, making Twitter more mobile and the company's commercialization plans.

  • Using LinkedIn Company Profiles For Job Hunts, Networking

    Posted February 17, 2009 - 2:41 pm

    As the recession turns workers of all industries into job seekers, many users of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, have begun examining the service's free company profiles to see who recently joined (or left) organizations, prepare for interviews and learn about what skills particular employers value in prospective candidates.

  • Social Networking's Security Pitfalls

    Posted February 13, 2009 - 4:35 pm

    Spending a little time on Facebook and other social networking sites is a ritual for many of us every morning. And afternoon. And evening. But, hey, it's nice, harmless fun -- isn't it? It isn't as if you were putting your identity or your computer at risk. Are you? Well, ask anyone who was whacked by the recent Koobface worm.

  • Twitter Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts

    Posted February 11, 2009 - 10:26 am

    In our beginner's guide about how to get started on Twitter, we examined the basics of the social networking service that allows you to share short messages (140 characters or less) with friends, family and colleagues. But like any social network, the Twitter community has its own set of unwritten guidelines - or etiquette - that dictates good (or bad) behavior on the service. Some people call it Twittequette.

  • The TechnoFileRSS

    Twitter won't charge for existing services

    Posted February 10, 2009 - 10:12 pm

    Co-Founders talk monetization opportunities; say service will remain free for individuals.

  • Facebook opens new APIs for app platform

    Posted February 9, 2009 - 3:16 pm

    Facebook is expanding its menu of APIs so third-party developers can access more member data via their apps.

  • Twitter: How to Get Started Guide for Business People

    Posted February 9, 2009 - 10:41 am

    Twitter remains a very nascent social network, so if you don't know how it works or what it does (or you haven't even heard of it), don't feel bad. In fact, you're still in the majority. But we're here to help you reap the benefits of Twitter with this quick get-started guide.

  • Content management vendor Box.net gets social

    Posted February 5, 2009 - 6:28 pm

    Box.net, a specialist in online storage and file sharing for businesses, has added enterprise social-networking features to its Web-based system and revamped the layout of its interface.

  • Remark highlights problems faced by educators on Facebook

    Posted February 5, 2009 - 12:37 pm

    Be careful what you post on social networks. Dartmouth professor Reiko Ohnuma learned that lesson the hard way when a student visited her semi-public Facebook profile, took a screenshot, and posted it to the school newspaper's blog.

  • To tweet, or not to tweet?

    Posted February 2, 2009 - 5:22 pm

    Twitter has gone mainstream, big time. Much has been written about Twitter etiquette, or "Twittiquette," which is concerned mainly with what to do and what not to do on the microblogging service itself. But what about socially acceptable rules for when -- or when not -- to use Twitter at all?

  • Dave Morin, Facebook Senior Platform Manager

    Posted February 2, 2009 - 10:49 am

    Dave Morin, senior platform manager at Facebook, has to manage many of the moving parts of the Facebook ecosystem. He and his team make affect all the developers, marketers and advertisers who have staked the future of their business on building applications and products on top of the platform.

  • Prepare to be socialized for profit!

    Posted January 30, 2009 - 3:00 pm

    The fast moving wave that is social computing swept through Davos on Thursday in a session titled "Organizing the Unorganizable: Social Computing and the Enterprise." The interactive workshop assembled such luminaries as Paulo Coehlo, Jim Schwartz, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Jimmy Wales, Matt Cohler, and Reid Hoffman, among others.

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