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The GeekWire Summit returns next week: Agenda released featuring Andy Jassy, Ciara and others

GeekWire

Now in its 10th year, the 2021 GeekWire Summit is going to look and feel a little different — including both virtual viewing options and a limited in-person experience at the very cool Block 41 event space in downtown Seattle. Tickets are still available, so go here to purchase your virtual or VIP in-person tickets.

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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 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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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Beware Social scammers that call.

Sean Daniel

Beware Social scammers that call pretending to be the Microsoft HelpDesk. On 9/21/2012, I received my first social engineering hacking attack. Virtualization. Social Media. Beware Social scammers that call pretending to be. ► 2004. (67). ► 2004. (67). SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Online Backup.

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Boston KM Forum Event: Virtual Teams and Social Media Tools, Part 1

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At this week's KM Forum event at Bentley College in Waltham, the theme of the discussion was "Leveraging Virtual Teams and Social Tools for Business Advantage.". Their key themes included: the definition of a virtual team. the building blocks of virtual team effectiveness: people, purpose, links, and time.

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Meta layoffs ripple through Seattle region, taking some of the luster from ‘Silicon Valley North’

GeekWire

Meta has a sizeable workforce for its Oculus virtual reality division in the Seattle region, in addition to major office buildings dedicated to Facebook engineering. Among the Bay Area titans, Google was among the first to establish a Seattle-area engineering office, way back in 2004. He added, “We do historically important work.

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A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds Ross Dawson, February 20, 2007 5:02 AM US PT Hey, how come I read about this on Scobleizer first? Second Life has established itself as the de facto leader in user-created free-form virtual worlds. TD Goodcliffe believes that the space is open for the taking.

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Lloyds TSB pilots social media - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» 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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