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Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do

GeekWire

The new verified identity service is a notable integration between the business social network and the company’s Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management group, which has been led by former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell since late 2021.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek! Today the average Fortune 100 brand has 320 social media accounts.

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Interview on MySpace and social media - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I talked about how social media is unleashing our latent humanity, by providing us with new ways of interacting and relating. We are exploring and discovering who we become as individuals and a society through using the new tools of social media. MySpace is a specific manifestation of how young people’s attention is shifting.

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What is Web 3.0?

Galido

And I think what Web 3 comes out of, cause the most interesting of all the candidates is mobile, but it’s kind of obvious, like mobile’s transforming the world, we always have in our pocket except for on stage. It’s data that we generate explicitly, like putting into social networking platforms or blogs or tweets.

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Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

Trends in the Living Networks

Description: Global mobile and web-based community, including social networking and messaging such as IM, email, text and photo sharing. Description: Social networking platform covering sports from national to school level for sports enthusiasts, players, teams and parents, allowing discussions and photo and video sharing.

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NGA Continues To Engage With Open Source Community Via GitHub

CTOvision

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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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Right now, tech industry figures who talk about “the metaverse” are usually excited about digital platforms that include some of the following things: Feature sets that overlap with older web services or real-world activities. Social 3D spaces like CyberTown long predate Second Life. This could change in the future.

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