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Digital Wellbeing: Are You Having a Safe Internet Day?

IT Toolbox

Internet safety is a social and mental issue as much as it is technological. Safer Internet Day was created in 2004 to address these challenges and spread awareness of what is one of the most indispensable aspects of being online. Safer Internet Day 2024 seeks to shed light on keeping children safe from the harms of the internet.

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The 64 Best Channel Podcasts Of 2019

Forrester IT

Since the first podcast came on the scene in 2004, there are now over 750,000 podcast shows with […]. By Jay McBain and Rob Spee If you haven’t listened to a podcast yet, you’re now in the minority. According to Podcast Insights, 51% of the US population has listened to at least one podcast.

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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. 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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The inside story at Meta as it moves beyond Facebook

Vox

Land of the Giants explores the social media juggernaut in a moment of transformation. Both Facebook and Instagram are quickly losing ground to TikTok, forcing Meta to rethink its approach to social media entirely. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg’s business is under pressure like never before.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

In his presentation Mark starts with his long relationship with programming and finally moves on to describe his project Plexus , which will provide a new platform for social networks. First and most important is the social graph, a database of connections known as the ‘Plex’. Unfortunately PeopleAggregator has not taken off.

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The developers of an acclaimed Skyrim mod just made it to the big leagues

The Verge

They didn’t leave so much as a hint about what kind of game it might be — we checked the team’s social media accounts, Discord, and more — but it’d be surprising if it weren’t based in swords and sorcery seeing how they’ve been modding since Morrowind.