It wasn’t all that long ago that Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) occupied most of the area out by East Charleston Drive and Shoreline Drive in Mountain View, California.  Today, most of SGI’s old campus locations are wholly owned and used by Google.  There was even a point, albeit rather brief, that I considered working [...]

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According to a survey conducted by Intel that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, 50% of 200 companies surveyed said they found the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace as either “a major security concern” or “somewhat of a security concern.”
Of the companies surveyed, of course the majority [...]

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In his latest post, Rafe Needleman over at CNET identifies a list of sites that have implemented Facebook Connect, and which are using Google Friend Connect.
So far, and perhaps not too surprisingly, Facebook is leading the way.
Needleman believes the lead is due to three main reasons:

Users are (rightly or wrongly) comfortable with Facebook as [...]

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One of the things that all of us who are fans of social networking and social computing concepts struggle with is proving the business value and power of social tools to our co-workers, customers and friends.  We’re always keeping an eye out for success stories that are easily understood and don’t sound like a [...]

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Force.com (the developer site for Salesforce.com) is now offering a Python library and test harness allowing developers to access the Force.com Web Services from Google App Engine applications.  According to details on the company’s official blog:
Once it is installed in your Google App Engine application, that application can start to seamless make callouts to [...]

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FriendFeed just announced a swath of new translations aimed at expanding their global presence.  According to the official company blog:
We’re excited to add six new language interfaces to our site. As of today, you can now select from English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and simplified Chinese from a dropdown at the bottom of every [...]

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I’ve been fascinated by the number of “specialized” social networking sites.  I’d written earlier about the eventual and inevitable consolidation of social networking sites into two main pieces (personal and professional), but nonetheless there are still some pretty solid specialized social networking sites out there that get decent amounts of traffic for what they [...]

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