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Dassault Systèmes buys personal analytics site Netvibes

3D design software company Dassault Systèmes has acquired Netvibes, a website that allows the creation of personalized dashboards combining social network updates, news alerts and RSS feeds, the companies announced Thursday.

By Peter Sayer | 09 February, 2012 23:29

Tags: software, social media, search engines, Product lifecycle management, Netvibes, mergers and acquisitions, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Dassault Systèmes, business issues, applications, analytics
US gov't falling behind in social-media race, expert says

The U.S. government is losing a race in cyberspace -- a social-networking race for the hearts and minds of Internet users, a computer security expert said Wednesday.

By Grant Gross | 09 February, 2012 08:46

Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, social media, security, Rand Waltzman, Internet-based applications and services, internet, dell, Best Buy
Dating site matches not so scientific

Users flock to online dating sites in ever greater numbers, but despite their marketing claims, services such as Match.com and eHarmony may not be offering potential mates chosen through rigorous scientific methods, a group of psychologists and sociologists have charged.

By Joab Jackson | 08 February, 2012 08:56

Tags: software, social networking, social media, popular science, Match.com, Internet-based applications and services, internet, eHarmony, data mining, applications
5 ways to secure your Facebook profile in a post-Timeline world

With the ongoing rollout of Facebook's Timeline feature, security and privacy have never been more important to your digital life. The new layout presents all of your current and past activities on Facebook -- posts, photos, comments, likes and so on -- in a handy timeline format to anyone with access to your profile, which may include friends of friends, colleagues, executives at your company, a potential future boss ... well, you get the idea.

By Logan Kugler | 08 February, 2012 02:48

Tags: social media, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook
Facebook details continue to emerge following IPO announcement

Facebook's coziness with Washington and the astronomical tax bill its founder could face by exercising a huge cache of stock options are some of the latest details to emerge about the social network following its IPO announcement.

By Christina DesMarais | 05 February, 2012 16:12

Tags: twitter, social networks, social media, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Google Plus, Facebook

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Stop Facebook from cluttering your inbox

There's a fine line between awesome and annoying. Take Facebook: Most of the time, it's great, but a few things about the service drive me crazy.

By Rick Broida | 02 February, 2011 04:02

Tags: software, social networks, social media, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook, e-mail, applications
How to get 150,000 Twitter followers

Despite sharing every banal aspect of my life in mind-numbing detail, I remain some way short of 150,000 Twitter followers.

By Matt Egan | 27 August, 2010 03:39

Tags: twitter, social media, Internet & broadband, Internet-based applications and services, internet

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Curtains for MySpace?

Things just keep getting worse for MySpace. The former social networking hub recently announced it would cut nearly half of its global workforce as part of a restructuring effort. As many as five hundred MySpace employees worldwide will soon be looking for work as the site continues to redefine itself from a social network to an entertainment content site with social networking features.

By Ian Paul | 13 January, 2011 01:28

Tags: social networks, social media, News Corp., MySpace, Internet-based applications and services, internet
Wikipedia celebrates a decade of edit wars, controversy and Internet dominance

Wikipedia and its users are planning more than 300 celebration events across six continents for the 10th anniversary of the free, online encyclopedia that has become an Internet juggernaut by spreading access to information with a model that lets anyone edit its articles.

By Jon Brodkin | 11 January, 2011 23:25

Tags: wikipedia, web 2.0, unified communications, software, social media, networking, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Google, collaboration, applications
The five pros and cons of a Facebook phone

Is Facebook building a phone? The company won't say for sure, but for some the idea of a Facebook phone is social networking overkill. To social butterflies, a Facebook phone is a dream come true. Here is a look at the pros and cons.

By Brennon Slattery | 22 September, 2010 01:58

Tags: social media, smartphones, Palm, mobile phones, Microsoft, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Facebook
Twitter 2.0: Not just for narcissists

Using Twitter is like being trapped in an elevator with someone who has a severe case of attention deficit disorder and just consumed three pots of truck-stop coffee.

By Robert X. Cringely | 17 September, 2010 02:30

Tags: twitter, social media, Internet-based applications and services, internet
Has Digg dug its own grave?

Some people just don't like change. Less than a week after Digg released version 4 of its social news-sharing site, fans have rebelled, flooding Digg with links from a rival sharing site, staging a "Quit Digg Day," and prophesying a major drop-off in traffic if the site doesn't return to its roots. Has Digg dug its grave, or is this yet another kneejerk neophobic reaction?

By Brennon Slattery | 01 September, 2010 08:13

Tags: Web services development, web services, software, social networks, social media, Internet-based applications and services, internet, digg, application development

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