Organizations are slow to adopt enterprise search systems that empower users to find data on the desktop, the network, and the Internet. The challenges are more operational than technical and the payoff is efficiency.

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Web 2.0 and the Workplace of Tomorrow - Revisited

In 2007, I was commissioned by a Fortune 100 company to perform an analysis of their company's operations and suggest means by which they could become leaner and more efficient.

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Common sense advice on using and measuring the ROI on social media efforts.

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Procter & Gamble is launching an interesting way to gage customer "enjoyment" in the restroom. 

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Facebook Friend the GOP (Expect Request Confirmation in 6-8 Weeks)

Republicans dip their toes into social media, and still manage to drown.

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Why can't researchers, instead of waiting anywhere up to three years for their papers to jump all the hurdles, be part of a real-time market place – a fusion of iTunes and Last.fm for science? They pitched the idea, among others, to two of Last.fm's investors: Spencer Hyman and …

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It's almost a cliché to complain about MPs acting like children in the House of Commons.

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Verizon insists its adherence to a 768/200kpbs definition of broadband has nothing to do with resistance to upgrading its networks. AT&T says it knows that real-time video will become an essential Internet application, "over time"—but what about the here and now?

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The Importance of Correct Punctuation on Newsvine

In my experience, a good percentage of the acrimony on Newsvine results from situations where a poster's intentions are either misunderstood, or mischaracterized.

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What's Twitter Good For?

There’s a Facebook-trashing thread elsewhere on the site, in which people have begun debating the usefulness of Twitter. It took awhile to get used to, but I really like Twitter.

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TWO girls used the social networking site Facebook to call for help after getting stuck in a southern suburbs drain.

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The league wants to restrict fans' use of Twitter and Facebook to protect its TV contracts. Good luck with that.

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Starting this fall, you'll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called "WikiTrust" will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.

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For months - years even - I've been arguing that anonymous and pseudonymous comments have no place on the Internet. I'm in no doubt that if we forced everyone who wanted to respond to a blog post or online article to use their real name, the Internet would be transformed.

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One of my favorite people to speak with about the state of content on the web is Ginny Redish. She's one of those people who cuts to the point so decisively that you're left asking yourself… "why didn't I think of that?"

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Courtesy of Webpagesthatsuck.com - some blasts from the past in terms of bad website design:

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ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 18, 2009) -- Even in the 140-character brevity demanded of a tweet, the enthusiasm was evident: "Just shot my first rounds from a M1A1 Main Battle Tank. Killed 3 of 4 targets. Best Tank on the planet!"

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Here's a quick test, a sort of free-association game: What do egocentrism, deceitfulness and aggressive criminality have in common?

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The company's free Family Tree Builder enables anyone to build family trees, research their family history, add photos and videos, and now, maps, photo albums and enhanced search capabilities.

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Twitter has been targeted by cybercriminals in a new scam aimed at stealing users' logins and passwords for the micro-blogging service.

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It seems to me that much of the writing that I read dealing with information technologies with in the Jewish community seem to deal with these ideas of cyberspace as merely "tools"- nice and snazzy ways of dealing with what we have doing for ages.

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Twitter has just rolled out the new version of its homepage that new potential users and users who are not logged in will see. The design has been completely overhauled from the previous version which was fairly cluttered (see it at the bottom of the page).

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For practical reasons, health workers are often unable to talk to home-based patients with chronic conditions on a daily basis – but they could keep an eye on an online medical record that is automatically updated whenever the patient measures their own blood pressure, checks t …

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Twitter will unveil a new main homepage next week at Twitter.com, said co-founder Biz Stone, in order "to better show who we are."

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Pretty sure my site gets no traffic, so I'm gonna go with "No." But the rest of you might enjoy the Danny Sullivan's look at how Web analytics work with regard to Twitter's various parasitic URL-shortening services.

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