Remove Network Remove Reference Remove Social Remove Virtualization
article thumbnail

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.

Groups 105
article thumbnail

With the launch of Infinite Office Facebook is making a play for virtual reality offices

Trends in the Living Networks

From today’s suite of virtual reality and augmented reality product launches by Facebook, one of the most interesting was its announcement of Infinite Office , allowing users to work on multiple screens in a virtual/ augmented reality space. Today we will look behind the news that Facebook is launching a virtual office space.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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.

Social 138
article thumbnail

Technology Short Take 173

Scott Lowe

Networking This article on running WireGuard in Docker may prove useful if that’s an approach I decide to adopt for my AWS lab infrastructure. Russ White laments some of the issues facing network engineering. A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered.

article thumbnail

What is a Resource Sharing Community?

Kitaboo

They usually involve network cooperation and connect users to larger shared resources such as online libraries. They are particularly helpful in publishing and learning since they allow users to access materials from a larger network of resources. Table of Contents I. What is a Resource Sharing Community?

article thumbnail

Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Modern advancements like artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and blockchain-based networks specifically have an impact in this area. Money laundering, social engineering scams, and identity theft are all examples of attacks that can be used against financial institutions.

Security 131
article thumbnail

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. Or perhaps another initiative to follow will succeed.

Network 60