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Study: Facebook relies on good design to retain users

What is Facebook's secret to keeping the world's largest user base content? Sticking to well-proven software design principles, one study has concluded.

By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2012 07:12

Tags: software, social networking, social media, Languages and standards, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook, application development

Location-based services: Are they there yet?

Mobile users are more connected to the Internet than ever. As of December 2011, ComScore estimated that there are 97.9 million smartphone users in the US - nearly a third of the total population.

By Brian Proffitt | 03 May, 2012 23:28

Tags: yelp, Web 2.0 and Web Apps, Mobile Apps and Services, Mobile and Wireless, GPS, Google, Facebook, consumer electronics, ComScore

Mobile apps: The IT pro's new power tools

Think the mobile revolution is all about word games and social networking apps? Think again. Heavy-duty apps for IT pros have arrived on mobile platforms and they're quickly changing the face of IT systems management.

By Robert L. Scheier | 12 March, 2012 21:07

Tags: Android, applications, Blackberry, Data Center, hardware systems, iOS, iPad, iPhone, it management, it strategy, mobile, mobile apps, Mobile OSes, mobile technology, Mobile Tools, smartphones, software, tablets, tech support, Telecommunication

Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later

A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 18 January, 2012 08:36

Tags: comcast, Facebook, Google, Internet Society, IPv6, IPv6 Launch, LAN & WAN, Leslie Daigle, networking

Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012

ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice President David Cearley says.

By Michael Cooney | 19 October, 2011 04:41

Tags: cloud computing, Facebook, Gartner, hardware systems, infrastructure management, internet, management, networking, security, tablets, wireless, youtube

Wikipedia loses editors: Crowdsourcing reality check?

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia built on the backs of a seemingly never-ending supply of free labor, is in a bit of a bind.

By Ian Lamont | 26 November, 2009 08:09

Tags: crowdsourcing, wikipedia

Jive links enterprise social-networking product, CMS tools

Jive Software will begin to deliver later this quarter new modules to link its flagship Social Business Software (SBS) enterprise social-networking product with leading content management systems (CMS) from other vendors.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 07 October, 2009 01:46

Tags: cms, jive, social networking, social networks

UK High Court serves injunction over Twitter

For the first time, a U.K. court delivered an injunction over Twitter on Thursday, a groundbreaking embrace of technology by a traditionally slow-moving legal system.

Twit nits: 12 top Twitter annoyances

Twitter's popularity may have exploded over the past year, but its feature set continues to evolve at a seemingly glacial pace. New users quickly realize that they need to shop around in the Twitter developer ecosystem for add-on software and Web-based services that fill in missing features and address the annoyances that the microblogging service's deficiencies present.

By Robert L. Mitchell | 24 September, 2009 08:27

Tags: microblogging, twitter

The 15 biggest Wikipedia blunders

Wikipedia's just announced plans to restrict the editing of some of its articles. Under the new system, any changes made to pages of still-living people will have to be approved by an "experienced volunteer" before going online.

By JR Raphael | 27 August, 2009 09:18

Tags: wikipedia

Open source, Web 2.0 gain appeal as IT budgets shrink

CPS Energy, the largest municipality-owned gas and electric company in America, needed to get a better grip on its budget and its budgeting process. Since CPS Energy was an enterprise SAP user, more SAP AG software was the obvious and lowest-risk way for CIO Christopher Barron to go.

By Julia King | 23 June, 2009 08:25

Tags: amazon.com, Facebook, web 2.0

Can your online past come back to haunt you?

When it comes to some aspects of finding a job by social networking, such as online reputation management, Sean Ryan, senior vice president of engineering and a hiring manager at online measurement tools vendor Lyris, has a completely opposite view than most. The vast majority of recruiting professionals say it's important to make sure there's nothing online that could be too personal or embarrassing or that might turn off potential employers doing a background check.

By David Ramel | 11 May, 2009 08:42

Tags: Facebook, it careers, LinkedIn, online profile, social networking, twitter

Farming 2.0

In this final part of Computerworld's series on technological innovations shaping Australian farming, the founding director of Efficient Farming sheds light on how the concept of building an online community for the farming community was born.

By Kathryn Edwards | 01 May, 2009 13:04

Tags: ASX, collaboration, farming, Google Maps, web 2.0

Twitter quitters just don't get it

A Nielsen report this week revealed that Twitter has an uncanny knack for hemorrhaging users. In fact, some 60 percent of new users bail on the service within a month. For those of us who've been tweeting for a couple of years, this isn't exactly a shocker. Many longtime users have gone through that initial period of wondering what, if any, use Twitter might be. And maybe it's better for everyone if those who don't get it refrain from tweeting until they do.

By Robert Strohmeyer | 30 April, 2009 09:25

Tags: social networking, twitter

The Polite Way to Take a Break, Ignore, Unfollow on Twitter

The more people you follow on Twitter, the more you realize the truth: Sometimes, you want a short break from certain people. Sometimes, you even need to break up. Topping the list of annoyances, there's the too much information (TMI) tweets, followed closely by the criminally self-promotional and the disgustingly self-indulgent. These tweets can trickle into your Twitter stream with great regularity, rendering the service at times useless.

By C.G. Lynch | 22 April, 2009 02:41

Tags: twitter

Web 2.0 tools can foster growth in hard times

But analysts warn that companies should be prepared for potential online user attacks.

By Sharon Gaudin | 16 March, 2009 08:31

Tags: web 2.0

Your online reputation: Leveraging LinkedIn

Make the most of your LinkedIn account. Part 3 in our series on how to maneuver your professional reputation through Web 2.0.

By Jennifer Kavur | 26 February, 2009 09:48

Tags: LinkedIn, online reputation, web 2.0

Tweet to compete

If you still think Facebook is for twentysomethings clinging to their college years and Twitter is for people with too much time on their hands announcing what they had for breakfast, think again.

By Jason Meserve | 18 February, 2009 10:09

Tags: Facebook, social networking, twitter

Forget the Grammy Awards: Behold the Tech Music Awards

Alicia Keys, Eddie Vedder, Radiohead, Google and Twitter songs grab honors

Ducks, dorks and deviants: Wackiest stories of 2008

It's not all bits and bytes