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The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet?
Douglas Heingartner 03.08.01 | 2:00 AM

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Matrix may be the future of virtual reality, but researchers say the Grid is the future of collaborative problem-solving.
More than 400 scientists gathered at the Global Grid Forum this week to discuss what may be the Internet’s [...]

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Will Email Really Be the Next Social Network?

Posted by: Rob Hof on November 14
That’s what Saul Hansell suggests in his blog post about Google and Yahoo leveraging their email systems to create social networks. On the surface, it makes a lot of sense, given the huge numbers of email accounts and the wealth of personal [...]

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Learning more about Generation M
February 17th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Children born between 1982 and 1998 are now beginning to enter the workforce; while they’ve been called many things, I continue to use the term Generation M. [And that’s not because of any personal pride in coming up with the term; rather, the characteristics that define [...]

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Job Candidates Gone Wild: be careful what you post online
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: March 28, 2007 – 02:43PM CT
Be careful what you post online if you want to be able to get a job in the future. Your blog, web site, Facebook, MySpace, online dating profile, or even forum postings might “out” your salacious [...]

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Social web sites often easy pickings for phishers, malware writers
By Jeremy Reimer | Published: September 17, 2007 – 11:34PM CT
Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have become a regular part of many people’s daily Internet usage. Malware authors, who are always on the lookout for new and undefended avenues of attack, have noticed this [...]

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We love our Internet friends, really.
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: November 30, 2006 – 01:19PM CT
Online friends are just as important to people as their offline friends, according to the results of a recent survey. The sixth-annual report from University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for the Digital Future is part of a six-year study [...]

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Blog, Social Network buzz correlates to better album sales
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: February 09, 2008 – 12:35PM CT
The amount of online “chatter” about an upcoming album release directly correlates to higher physical album sales, according to two researchers with New York University’s Stern Business School. Professor Vasant Dhar and former student Elaine Chang observed [...]

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