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Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

Trends in the Living Networks

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

Trends in the Living Networks

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. As it happens this model closer to LinkedIn than any of the other major social networking platforms of today.

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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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Jeff Hussey, CEO and co-founder of Tempered Networks, and his wife on a trip to Austria. Jeff Hussey , co-founder and CEO of Seattle’s Tempered Networks, is not a believer in long-term work-from-home practices. “We Hussey left the F5 board of directors in 2004. Photo courtesy of Jeff Hussey). Jeff Hussey.

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Will the future of social networking be open and distributed? Here comes Plexus

Trends in the Living Networks

I just caught up with my neighbor and fellow futurist Mark Pesce , who over a coffee at our local briefed me on his new project Plexus, which he publicly announced at his recent keynote at Pycon Australia, for Python developers. First and most important is the social graph, a database of connections known as the ‘Plex’.

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Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

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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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

GeekWire

Everson most recently was VP of Facebook’s global marketing solutions which works with the social networks top agencies and advertisers. Headquartered in the Seattle-area, Avalara and Smartsheet are both publicly traded companies founded in 2004 and 2005, respectively. At Microsoft, she led global ad sales and strategy.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

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.

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