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Social computing--start small, think big

Insight perspective Don't be afraid of social networking and blogs in the office, says an analyst. Here's how you can make them work for you.

Monday, May 18 2009 09:38 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web logs, Wiki, IBM Corp., Social Computing, social networking, IM, network, blog, Web

Be cautious of message, not tools

Insight newsmaker Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shares how the micro-blogging site is attracting commercial usage from the likes of Dell.

Sunday, October 12 2008 09:37 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Web logs, Twitter, Tool, Video, Comcast Corp., social networking, Web 2.0, video search

S'pore govt needs holistic Web approach

News Singapore government's effective use of new media and the Internet to engage citizens will require whole new mindset and culture change, industry observers note.

Friday, May 22 2009 07:04 PM

Tags: Local Government, Regulations, Web 2.0, Web sites, Web logs, Ovum, Singapore, Government, public sector, e-mail

Is your smartphone secure? Survey says probably not

News Smartphone users are more worried about losing their phones or personal data than Web infections or phishing software, survey by Trend Micro finds.

Tuesday, August 18 2009 10:39 AM

Tags: Smart phones, Viruses and worms, Network security, Security Management, Security, Smart Phone, Trend Micro Inc., Survey, phone, e-mail

Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too

News Mere hours after a deal with Microsoft was announced to index real-time 'tweets' in Bing, Google posted on its blog that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, too.

Thursday, October 22 2009 10:38 AM

Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Web logs, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, social search, product manager

Facebook's Holocaust controversy

News Facebook is under fire for allowing Holocaust denial groups to remain on the site, claiming they don't violate the social network's terms of service.

Friday, May 15 2009 11:42 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web logs, Cooper, Terms Of Service, GROUP, Berkman Center, social networking, Facebook, CEO, Web 2.0

Schmidt: Google 'unlikely' to buy Twitter soon

News Search giant's CEO declines to address an acquisition of the micro-blogging site, saying the company has plenty of money but prices are too high.

Sunday, March 08 2009 04:22 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web logs, Twitter, TV, Charlie Rose, Conference, Morgan Stanley, Google Inc., Advertisement, e-mail

Israel takes airstrikes to the Web

News Israel Defense Forces uses Twitter to spread message and posts footage of Hamas airstrikes on YouTube. Some videos were removed, and later reinstated.

Friday, January 02 2009 11:49 AM

Tags: Web logs, Politics, Web 2.0, Video, Twitter, CNN, Footage, Spokesperson, FoxNews.com, Israel

Google maps out Chrome's RSS support

News Chrome turns a blind eye to subscription offers from Web sites, but Google has revealed its plan to add the feature.

Thursday, December 18 2008 07:38 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web sites, E-mail servers, Web logs, RSS, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Bloglines, Google Reader, blog

Asian Net users most engaged online

News Chinese youths spend more leisure time online than anyone else globally, while Koreans top the world in social networking, new study finds.

Friday, November 28 2008 07:12 PM

Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Web browsers, Web logs, Wiki, Social Media, Japan, Internet User, social networking

Twitter steps up its antispam moves

News Microblogging service posts a position for a spam engineer and tweaks the handling of suspended accounts as it suffers from an outbreak of spam.

Friday, October 17 2008 02:53 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web logs, Twitter, Security, Spam, Anti-spam, research director, e-mail company, job posting, job

Enterprise Web 2.0 costs set to plunge

News Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise Web 2.0 tools is set to plummet.

Tuesday, October 14 2008 11:51 AM

Tags: Web services, Web logs, Tool, CIO, social networking, podcast, software, job, Web 2.0, software-as-a-service

Blogger detention backfires on M'sian govt

News Move to keep controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin in detention has spurred, rather than quell, country's vocal blogger community into further action.

Tuesday, September 30 2008 05:23 PM

Tags: Web logs, Local Government, Politics, Regulations, Blogger, Security, Malaysia, Government, phone, New York

Malaysian news portals get political boost

News Country's political upheaval has helped local blogs and news portals climb up ranks of most popular sites and generate new advertising revenue.

Friday, August 01 2008 05:39 PM

Tags: Web logs, Web sites, Politics, News Portal, Google Inc., Site, News Site, Yahoo! Inc., Portal, Stock