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Tag: social networking[1]
A Better Way to Rank Expertise Online New software distinguishes between experts and spammers, showing who can be trusted. A new effort seeks a database on all U.S. elected officials. The business of social networking, cloud computing, and a flaw in the fabric of the Internet top the most notable stories of 2008. Campaign strategists and Facebook's cofounder discuss the 2008 election. Mitch Kapor, a pioneer of personal computing, says the position is vital given the growing importance of technology. The social-networking strategy that took an obscure senator to the doors of the White House. The social network's technology manages a vast and rapidly expanding web of connections for its millions of users. Yahoo's Plan for a Smarter In-Box Its e-mail program will trade data with social-networking sites. What Your Phone Knows About You MIT's Sandy Pentland finds surprising implications in patterns of cell-phone use. Microsoft proposes a simple solution to the problem of information overload: lists. Now, owners can meet each other by swapping information between chips mounted on Fido's collar. IBM's site lets people collaborate to creatively visualize and discuss data on fast food, Jesus' apostles, greenhouse-gas trends, and more. Ning, a new Web service, lets users become the CEOs of their own mini-MySpaces. The software giant wants to better understand how people interact on the Internet. [1]
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