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  • The Opening of Dell’s Social Media Command Center

    Posted on May 2nd, 2012 Tech Nerd 1 comment

    A montage of the open ceremony in Round Round of Dell’s new listening center. The video features Michael Dell’s opening remarks. Dec 8, 2010

  • Introducing Dell’s Social Media Command Center

    Posted on April 4th, 2012 Tech Nerd 8 comments

    Michael Dell and Karen Quintos join others for the launch of Dell’s new global social media command center.

  • Privacy and Social Networks

    Posted on April 3rd, 2012 Tech Nerd 25 comments

    Privacy and Social Networks

    What does a friend of a friend of a friend know about you? Video generated by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart. For more information, please contact Daphne Guerrero, Outreach Manager, at daphne(dot)guerrero(at)priv(dot)gc(dot)ca
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Social Networking Wars: SuperNews!

    Posted on April 3rd, 2012 Tech Nerd 25 comments

    Myspace confronts a young fellow who may have been cheating on it with other sites. Soon facebook and others show up for a showdown. Let the social networking wars begin! Watch more SuperNews! www.current.com www.facebook.com VIEW more SuperNews! clips & SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube Playlist here… www.youtube.com

  • Empire – Social networks, social revolution

    Posted on March 31st, 2012 Tech Nerd 22 comments

    Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?

  • Learning from Bacteria about Social Networks

    Posted on March 31st, 2012 Tech Nerd 7 comments

    Google Tech Talk (more info below) September 30, 2011 Presented by Eshel Ben-Jacob. ABSTRACT Scientific American placed Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob and Dr. Itay Baruchi’s creation of a type of organic memory chip on its list of the year’s 50 most significant scientific discoveries in 2007. For the last decade, he has pioneered the field of Systems Neuroscience, focusing first on investigations of living neural networks outside the brain. en.wikipedia.org Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing Bacteria, the first and most fundamental of all organisms, lead rich social life in complex hierarchical communities. Collectively, they gather information from the environment, learn from past experience, and make decisions. Bacteria do not store genetically all the information required to respond efficiently to all possible environmental conditions. Instead, to solve new encountered problems (challenges) posed by the environment, they first assess the problem via collective sensing, then recall stored information of past experience and finally execute distributed information processing of the 109-12 bacteria in the colony, thus turning the colony into super-brain. Super-brain, because the billions of bacteria in the colony use sophisticated communication strategies to link the intracellular computation networks of each bacterium (including signaling path ways of billions of molecules) into a network of networks. I will show illuminating movies of swarming intelligence of
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • OVEREXPOSED: POINTLESS CHANGES ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

    Posted on March 30th, 2012 Tech Nerd No comments

    Facebook and Twitter have been making it extremely easy to stalk the fucking planet.
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Computer Architechs International Corporation Announces Online Conference System for Social Business

    Posted on February 6th, 2012 Tech Nerd No comments


    Torrance, CA (PRWEB) February 02, 2012

    Computer Architechs International Corporation (CAI), an organization that provides premier consulting services centered around social business, today announced Social Business Online 2012, an online conference system that allows conference attendees to get the most out of their conference experience.

    Social Business Online 2012 opened on Jan. 5, 2012, and will be available to attendees of IBM’s social business conferences, IBM Connect and Lotusphere 2012, until Feb. 3, 2012. This online tool is a powerful source of information that enhances the conference experience for attendees by allowing them to get social and go mobile when creating their conference schedules, networking and chatting instantly with other attendees, setting status updates, acting on social recommendations, interacting with Twitter feeds, creating profiles, participating in communities and forums, creating wikis, sharing favorite bookmarks, microblogging and so much more.

  • Enterprise Social Networking to Revolutionize Workplace, Says NIA

    Posted on January 20th, 2012 Tech Nerd No comments

    Enterprise Social Networking to Revolutionize Workplace, Says NIA
    17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The National Inflation Association predicts that enterprise social networking will revolutionize the workplace beginning in 2012 and change forever the way the world gets work done. Over the past few years, …
    Read more on MarketWatch (press release)

    Facebook Unmasks Koobface Gang, Aided By Their Foursquare Check-ins And Social
    The young cybercriminals' addiction to social networking proved to be part of their undoing. How much easier would Batman's job be if the Joker uploaded photos of his gang to Facebook and announced on Foursquare his new location every time he escaped …
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  • TD Bank's Social Strategy: Start Small, Think Big

    Posted on January 19th, 2012 Tech Nerd No comments

    TD Bank's Social Strategy: Start Small, Think Big
    The bank's ambitious enterprise social networking plans started with a simple initiative that has already boosted productivity dramatically. TD Bank's Wendy Arnott was in the keynote stage spotlight at Lotusphere this week as a social business champion …
    Read more on InformationWeek

    Networking for the Cloud: 3 Vendor Views
    By Doug Barney First up is Brandon Hoff, director of product management for Emulex, a producer of high-speed networking devices for storage arrays and storage networks. Redmond: What are the most important networking/WAN issues IT has to think about …
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    Rob Lowe Trolls Social Networking Sports World
    By TweetsCenter Staff | Actor and social networking personality Rob Lowe set Twitter atwitter when he tweeted that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was going to retire on Wednesday. “Hearing my fave, #18 Peyton Manning will not return to …
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