CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of waiting on hold or navigating through phone menus, customers can instantly get answers from a virtual agent that is far more engaging and knowledgeable than past generations of chatbots. AI-generated “digital twins,” or virtual representations of physical assets or systems, can replicate live scenarios and predict breakdowns.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” When GeekWire visited the company’s office and tested Rec Room in 2017, the startup was focused on virtual reality. Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Rec Room , the eponymous Seattle-based development studio behind the virtual hangout/game creator Rec Room, has raised $20 million. It initially premiered in June 2016 on the Steam digital storefront, but has since grown to include several other platforms, including iOS, PlayStation 4, and the Oculus, in both 2D and virtual reality versions.

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CTOvision

MAY 7, 2014

Geoevents-chef-installer: A set of Chef recipes (think of them as macros to automatically build a running Virtual Machine) that will work to set the geoevents app up on either a local Virtualbox VM or onto an Amazon Web Service VM. It is also designed for social codeing, helping developers collaborate around projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ransomware often starts from something as humble as someone in the organisation downloading the wrong file from an email. Social engineering – with social engineering, the cyber criminal will “trick” a victim into releasing confidential information, such as passwords and other logins.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2020

This is the spectator view for fans watching NBA games “courtside” in Microsoft Teams: the live stream on one side, and your virtual cheering section on the other. My big takeaway: Microsoft and the NBA are on to something with their new tech-fueled virtual fan experience. Look out for me in the virtual stands!!!

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

That’s the bet behind IRL, a young social network that has been quietly growing over the past year and just attracted an eye-popping amount of money to take on Facebook. A handful of universities have now let students enter their school emails to gain access to virtual events and group chats. Image: IRL. Image: IRL.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 31, 2007

report - You can download Chapter 2 on Web 2.0 Click here or on any of the images below to download the Framework as a pdf (713KB). companies and applications are mapped out across two major dimensions: Content Sharing to Recommendations/ Filtering ; and Web Application to Social Network. But I couldnt download it, a pity,:(!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

2020 was a year when people around the world were forced to find new ways to connect, and that trend is clearly visible when you look at the most downloaded apps on Apple hardware. The mobile version is particularly popular since it’s free to download. You can check out the full most-downloaded list below: Top free iPhone apps.

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Vox

JUNE 9, 2021

Snap is, in its own words , a camera company sustained on intimacy and existing social networks. But beyond these core social features, Snap has bigger ambitions with augmented and virtual reality. Most social media users are already familiar with AR technology, whether they’re aware of it or not.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Minecraft ’s PlayStation VR update is available now to download. It’s not the first time Minecraft has come to virtual reality, but it’s a welcome addition to the roster given the size of PlayStation VR’s install base. Everything else remains exactly the same, with players using the PS4 controller to move about the virtual world.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 2, 2012

You can download it from here or by clicking on the cover below. He then describes the core idea: The social web has given birth to a new breed of creative entrepreneurs who stride the virtual globe attracting fans and picking up business, often from the comfort of their home (or more often than not, on the road somewhere).

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft is removing all social hubs hosted in AltspaceVR and requiring users to log into the virtual reality app using a Microsoft account. The social hubs in AltspaceVR were designed “to help foster new friendships” and act as an entry point to get familiar with AltspaceVR itself. Microsoft acquired AltspaceVR in 2017.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

The ambitious game had aimed to rival Pokémon Go and cover the world in virtual blocks for players to meet and play together. Players will no longer be able to download or play Minecraft Earth after June 30th, and Microsoft is deleting player data on July 1st. Minecraft Earth aimed to cover the world in virtual blocks.

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 27, 2022

Social Media in Learning. Who would have ever thought that social media would one day be accepted as part of the learning process? With kids as young as eleven having social media profiles on various platforms, you can’t really expect to keep them away from social media for too long. Download Now!

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 9, 2008

I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. From its early beginnings with sixdegrees.com in 2000, it took until 2007 for social networking sites to work out the basics of what people found compelling and were comfortable with, leading to a broad-based uptake of social networking sites.

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Vox

APRIL 12, 2024

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This dispute has generated reams of commentary as the media’s middle-aged social media users argue about whether their favorite apps are poisoning their kids.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Portola is the company behind the alien creatures who are out to become our new virtual best friends. It’s working with a Gen Z audience of users that is almost predominantly women, some of whom have gone viral on social media, sharing videos of their interactions with their Tolan companion.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. It’s the social network’s first stab at creating a VR experience specifically for people to work together in.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

This revelation suggests that virtually any browser extension could potentially serve as an attack vector if created or taken over by an attacker. Using a very clever social engineering attack that exploits trusted domains, the adversary can then further escalate the profile hijacking attack to steal passwords from the victims browser.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

They’re limiting downloads and tightening up the terms of service for when it’s time for a lawsuit. The biggest challenge may be that downloading and installing executable code is not that hard for many users. Chance of succeeding: The basic algorithms work well; the challenge is social resistance.

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Vox

APRIL 18, 2021

Sources say the social network is planning to announce a series of products — some of which won’t appear for some time — under the umbrella of “social audio” on Monday. A Clubhouse-like product that will let groups of people listen to and interact with speakers on a virtual “stage.”.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2007

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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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 22, 2008

Free download of entire book | Main | Keynote at Tandberg Summit: weaving together Enterprise 2.0 Free download of entire book | Main | Keynote at Tandberg Summit: weaving together Enterprise 2.0 Today the soaring growth of social networks means these kinds of encounters are happening far more frequently.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 13, 2007

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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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 7, 2008

For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition. Living Networks - Chapter 3: The New Organization Leadership Across Blurring Boundaries OVERVIEW : The boundaries between organizations are blurring as technology reduces the costs of transactions.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 24, 2008

For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition. While I have been interviewed many times about mobile social networks over the last five years, their prime time is yet to come. WOW (Wide Open Web) - enough of version numbers for the web!!

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

in 2020, is a tech company that creates campaigns for social good by bringing together causes, celebrities and brands for a mix of influencer and cause marketing plus advertising. Kilmer, who is a throat cancer survivor, will participate in a virtual chat with other panelists.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 3, 2007

From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

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The Verge

JULY 11, 2021

The company announced today that it’s partnering with TED to bring exclusive chats to the social audio platform throughout the summer and beyond. TED launched its Audio Collective in February this year, and at the time, said its shows were downloaded 1.65 million times per day in “virtually every country on Earth.”

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Hacker Earth

DECEMBER 4, 2024

That is why virtual recruitment events are the perfect solution for reaching out to various sources of talents, marketing and selling the brands and employers, and conducting the recruitment process online. What Are Virtual Recruitment Events? Such events have become helpful to organizations in addressing the above challenges.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This social engineering trick is exceptionally successful, considering users might feel more comfortable sharing information to a website in their local language,” reads the report. This pie graph shows the top categories: GriftHorse Trojan social engineering technique. More than 200 apps were infected.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Click on the map to download the pdf (810KB). POLITICS : Virtual protests, Globalisation in retreat, Immigration backlash. To pick out just a few noteworthy elements of the trend map: CORE THEMES include: Uncertainy. Global Connectivity. Power Shift Eastwards. TECHNOLOGY : Simplicity, Telepresence, Gesture based computing.

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Kitaboo

APRIL 23, 2020

Though employee safety is the priority at this time, critical workplace learning cannot be put on hold and leaders have to take some effective steps and establish virtual live learning. To ensure the active participation of employees during digital training sessions, efforts can also be made to include social-learning components.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2023

The tool they showcased, called LifeAt Spaces , was seen and shared millions of times on various social media platforms. That thesis struck a chord: the app has been downloaded more than a million times. The startup partners with digital creators to design the virtual spaces.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 22, 2008

Free download of entire book Ross Dawson, April 22, 2008 4:42 AM US PT Living Networks has just been relaunched in an Anniversary Edition, to mark five years since its original publication by Financial Times/ Prentice Hall in November 2002. The book is available for purchase on Amazon.com and other major booksellers.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

» Lloyds TSB pilots social media Ross Dawson, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM US PT James Gardner, head of innovation at Lloyds TSB, writes consistently on his blog Bankervision , disclosing some of the key issues involved in innovating in a major bank. Some excerpts from his below show how blogging can change how corporations work.

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