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Hard-To-Read Watches - The Galaxy by Tokyoflash
On Trend Hunter, innovation and originality take the pedestal. In the
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on TechCrunch:
Gnip Launches To Ease The Strain On Web Services
MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier sold his company to Yahoo in January 2007
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on Read/Write Web:
Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web
Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts
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on Web Worker Daily:
On-demand Reservationless Toll-Free Teleconferencing
If you are looking for on demand, toll-free conference call services, look
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on Gear Live:
Exclusive: MacBook Air vs. Voodoo Envy 133 - Clash of World's Thinnest Notebooks
Earlier this morning we put up our Voodoo Envy 133 gallery, and
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on CrunchGear:
Drobo's Got a Posse - a Developer Posse
In case the charms of the Drobo aren't enough for you, Data
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on BoingBoing:
Three False Copyright Accusations And We'll Cut Off Your Internet Access
My latest Guardian column is up: "Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes
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on Ars Technica:
AMD Narrows Market Share Gap With Intel, Revenue gap Grows
Earlier this year, AMD CEO Hector Ruis boldly pledged to return the
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on /Message:
The technosphere is awhirl (see The Humiliating Detail Yahoo (YHOO) Left Out
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on VentureBeat:
Microsoft has just revealed the details of its online office and security
Recent Posts from Read/Write Web
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China's Facebook Clones
Facebook has launched a Japanese version and a Chinese version (the latter
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Students: The New Hiring Frontier Online, for Good and Evil
The British government is telling press that there is a growing trend
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Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo
In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and
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Get Firefox...If You Can
As you may know, today is Firefox's big day: June 17th: Download
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Yahoo Clings to Its Leading Web "Starting Points"
Yesterday we questioned whether Yahoo is focusing enough on its core products.
Sponsored by:
Published on Read/Write Web at 1:08 AM
Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet
MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the headlines again; Bebo is growing incredibly; Tribe relaunched; Cyworld, Hive7 and SecondLife are nothing short of a phenomenon; LinkedIn is becoming 'People Search'; ITToolbox relaunched with a host of social networking features; Friendster is now refueling itself to enter the market again. Put simply, social networking is hot and there is plenty of money and action in the SNS space to prove it.
Short History of Social Networks
Social Networks have a history almost as long as RSS. Aspects of social networks have long been present in dating services such as Match and Classmates. The notion of social networking first formally appeared on the Internet in the late 1990s, with services like FireFly, eGroups/OneList, ICQ and Evite - which allowed groups of people to coordinate certain kinds of interaction.
It was not until 2003 that social networks became truly mainstream - with the advent of Friendster. Shortly thereafter, there was a wave of social networks. Adopting small-world theory, services like Tribe, Orkut, LinkedIn and Spoke emerged - allowing users to better organize and expand their recreational and business networks.
Published on Read/Write Web at 1:08 AM
