social networking

Know-IT-All Quiz - Facebook

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is Facebook

Facebook is currently the most popular free social networking website. It allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues.

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Secret Word of the Day

The official Facebook developers site allows developers to collaborate by using this type of server program. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge

The Facebook API allows developers to add social context to their applications by incorporating profile, friend, page, group, photo and event data. What does API stand for?
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Tech Trivia

What tracking device on the White House Web site has come under fire because it’s not mentioned in the site’s privacy policy?
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Learn Something New Every Day

Retailers boost data collection, but data privacy issues persist

Salesforce.com developers getting social with Facebook apps for enterprise

Widgetbox provides good example of how to use Facebook Developer Toolkit

White Paper: Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales by Oracle

Tech Trivia Challenge - flash mobs

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is flash mob

A flash mob is a group of people who organize themselves, using electronic media such as cell phones or the Internet, to gather together in a public place, behave in a predetermined manner for a predetermined period of time, and then quickly disperse. The first flash mobs were considered either pranks or performance art. More recently, flash mobs have gathered for other purposes, including protests and charity. Last week, T-Mobile used the flash mob concept for an ad.

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Secret Word of the Day
In this model of human interaction, people expand their connections by accessing the connections of acquaintances. What’s the secret word?
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Tech Trivia
Who first proposed the “six degrees of separation” theory?
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Acronym Challenge
GPS messaging is a little like a digital sticky note that mobile users access when they enter a specific location. What does GPS stand for?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters for the name of a device that became prominent because of its wireless email capabilities:
rabbyclerk
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Learn Something New Every Day

Twitter tries to shore up security in wake of hack attack
As many as 33 high profile Twitter accounts were breached just days after a widespread phishing scam targeted users of the social network.

Sales 2.0
This white paper explores how sales and marketing professionals are using online collaboration and social networking to spark sales.

Tech Trivia Challenge - microblogging

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is microblogging

Microblogging is a web service that allows the subscriber to broadcast short messages to other subscribers of the service.  The broadcasts can be text, photos or video.  Twitter, Jaiku and the status feature on Facebook are three of the most popular microblogging services.

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Secret Word of the Day

This is a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge

Twitter was written in a programming language called RoR. What does RoR stand for?
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Tech Trivia

In the 1980’s, before the arrival of the World Wide Web, what did you call an application for sharing or exchanging messages or other files on a network?
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Microblogging for business

What are the risks of social networking sites?

Creating a sensible social network policy

When Micro-Blogging Grows Up

List of Enterprise Microblogging Tools: Twitter for the Intranet