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IRL is a new social network taking on Facebook groups

The Verge

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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Technology Short Take 173

Scott Lowe

A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered. The flaws, referred to as PixieFail, specifically affect the PXE network boot process. Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans has a lovely article on Git commits that is well worth reading.

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The role of informal social networks in building organizational creativity and innovation

Trends in the Living Networks

For the last decade I have examined and applied social network analysis in and across organizations, for example in large professional firms , technology purchase decision-making , high-performance personal networks , and other applications. Use social network analysis to uncover creative leadership.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. Perhaps the application Arrington refers to will break through after only mildly successful attempts so far.

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Creating an open digital twin framework to unlock 5G smart city revenues

TM Forum

The digital twin approach enables collaboration between partners involved in smart city planning, application development and construction, but there are challenges in implementing a digital twin-based smart city. Collaborating with industry stakeholders to build digital twins of physical entities and applications. external_url.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Two decades ago, as CIO and CTO at Nationwide Insurance, he inspired colleagues to implement what were then referred to as “green initiatives,” such as printing less paper and using more efficient lightbulbs. If you’re moving to an environment where you’re not managing servers anymore, the Linux engineers need a path forward,” Koushik says.

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Fountainhead: It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In the context of data, applications and cloud computing, this question takes on a new perspective - and the role of Mohammed and the Mountain may soon reverse. But theres no denying that the application is becoming more mobile. Fountainhead.

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