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Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

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and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks. was that employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive than those at tables for four, thanks to more chance conversations and larger social networks.

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Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

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Permalink | View blog reactions | Comments (2) Categories : Social trends Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook 2 Comments Keith De La Rue said: Interesting read. And of course, please don’t take this too seriously :-). Glad to see that you recognise the global importance of Philip K.

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

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companies and applications are mapped out across two major dimensions: Content Sharing to Recommendations/ Filtering ; and Web Application to Social Network. Recently commented on The Future of Sales is Social (the rise of social CRM) (3) Brian Vellmure (@CRMStrategies) wrote:Ross,Good stuff as always.

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Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

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While I closely followed the social networking space at the time, I didn’t join many. When I was writing Living Networks in 2002 there were no true social networking applications in existence. The basic principle was inviting friends to connect, and using that to find the quickest social path to people you wanted to meet.

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Eight steps to thriving on information overload - Trends in the Living Networks

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In a world in which the pace of developments and amount of information available in any given domain is soaring out of sight, it’s a very valid question. And those decisions need to be based on having a better insight than your competitors into how your business environment is developing. Develop your reading and note-taking skills.

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

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Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. The first is that a large proportion of social networking will shift to mobile platforms. There are a few critical points to add here. This is going to be a very big market.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

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Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

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