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Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
09/15/2004 02:13 AMeTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social
networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine
integrates online dating with social networking, event planning &
management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most
complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
New Zip for Networking
New Zip for Networking
07/15/2004 10:38 AMThe latest wireless technology standard, called 802.11g, helps improve
both the speed and security of wireless connections.
Networking your way to a new job
Networking your way to a new job
06/11/2004 02:01 AMNetworking is the most important element of your job search. MedZilla
dispels the myth that networking is shaking hands and passing out
business cards. In this article, MedZilla explains how networking fits
into the job search, what networking really is and how a networking
cover letter can provide the foundation of a successful networking
campaign. [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]
Get Yer Social Networking Here
Get Yer Social Networking Here
01/24/2004 09:30 PMSometime in December, somebody flipped a big switch and all of a
sudden everyone was inviting me to join their
Linkedin network. Then suddenly
last week the Kozmick Finger pointed at
Orkut, and near as I can tell, all
the geeks on the planet have spent this weekend busily inviting each
other to be Orkut pals. It all seems mostly harmless; mind you, I
haven’t actually got any use out of either of ’em. For what
it’s worth, all the Orkutians seem to be heavy geeks, while about
half the Linkedincrowd is VCs and businesspeople. I don’t think
it’s gonna change the world, but I’ve been wrong before. To those
whose invitations I’ve declined: sorry, nothing personal, it’s
just that I feel I ought to either have spent some face-to-face time
with you or been in some substantial online interaction.
VPC 6.1 and OS X networking together on
a PowerBook G4
VPC 6.1 and OS X networking together on
a PowerBook G4
11/07/2003 11:03 AMDiscovery through adversity once again. After applying the AirPort 3.2
update on my Powerbook G4 1GHz (sans-AirPort extreme), I discovered
Virtual PC 6.1 with virtual switch (DHCP) could no longer "see" Mac OS
X and vice-vers...
Wi-Fi Networking News's New Look
Wi-Fi Networking News's New Look
11/01/2003 12:55 PMWelcome to our partnership with JIWIRE: If you're a previous visitor
to Wi-Fi Networking News, you'll notice some changes today in our
banner, the left navigation bar, and our site's coloring. We've
partnered with JIWIRE, an editorial operation that combines a great
hot-spot directory with a terrific editorial approach to teaching how
to most effectively use Wi-Fi in specific and wireless in general.
(That last part is self promotion: I helped plan the editorial mission
and calendar over the last three months, and act as senior editor for
JIWIRE: writing, planning, and working with freelance contributors.)
Our partnership with JIWIRE doesn't change anything editorially: we're
still an independent organization, and Nancy Gohring and myself will
continue to report in the fashion we have over the life of this site.
JIWIRE will be handling the advertising sales for this site, however,
and our connection back and forth should help us both reach more
people. We link to their hotspot directory (see at upper left) and
they link to our headlines. JIWIRE has also begun its real editorial
cycle starting today. If you visit their home page you'll see links to
five regular daily themes: Wi-Fi, Hotspots, Cellular, Road Warrior,
and Gadgets. Each of these themes is handled by a dedicated bloggers
(with excellent credentials): Nancy Gohring (WNN, NY Times,
InfoWorld), Mike Masnick (TechDirt, consultant), Brian Jepson
(O'Reilly, book author), Paul Boutin (Slate, Wired), and Agen Schmitz
(formerly of Amazon.com), respectively. The idea of this section of
the site was to provide timely and interesting items about subjects
that appeal to a wireless audience, but without the formality and
depth of a full-length feature. I'm looking forward to working closely
with JIWIRE on both sides of the fence: as an editor with them and as
a partner on the news site. It's a great complementary combination,
and I welcome your feedback!...
10.3: Add IP over FireWire networking
10.3: Add IP over FireWire networking
10/30/2003 11:31 AMAll I can say is check out the Network Preference Pane and go to
Network Port Configurations.
[robg adds: And I'll add a bit more ... click on New, and you can then
select "Built-in FireWire" and add it to use IP over FireWi...
Social Networking?
Social Networking?
08/17/2004 05:42 PMSo I have this account - that I spent some time setting up and
inviting people to by the way - on one of the social networking
services, but I can't remember which one.
Networking two computers ?'s
Networking two computers ?'s
02/16/2004 08:03 AMAMDMB Feb 16 2004 12:23PM GMT
New Take on Mesh Networking
New Take on Mesh Networking
11/10/2003 10:54 PMA company called PacketHop is working on a mesh technology that routes
packets among clients: Instead of routing traffic from one AP to the
next, it routes from one user device to the next. The technology is
designed to allow users to access a network from farther away from an
AP. It looks like PacketHop is announcing that it acquired some
patents from SRI International which has already done some development
of a product. It's not clear when this product will be available.
(FireTide has also licensed SRI patents for its products, which
include a few mesh-like attributes.)...
Trusted Networking?
Trusted Networking?
05/11/2004 03:16 PMLast week we wrote about how the idea of
compl
y and connect security was beginning to get more attention than
the traditional "scan and block" method, which has been shown to be
too reactive. At the time, we suggested a hybrid approach would make
more sense. Furthering this point, the unfortunately named Trusted
Computing Group is working on a
standa
rd for establishing security policies for a "comply and connect"
system. This way, anyone can set the rules and they can be used
across different vendors. The companies involved are all quite
impressive, but it does seem like they're all heavily invested in this
area already - meaning that the solution is likely to have compromises
and be more focused on protecting business models than actually
solving some of the bigger issues concerning stopping malicious
attacks and files.
DIY b, g Wireless Networking
DIY b, g Wireless Networking
09/15/2004 01:49 AMPopular Mechanics Sep 15 2004 6:09AM GMT
A new era in networking is upon us: So
what do we call it?
A new era in networking is upon us: So
what do we call it?
01/17/2004 10:56 PM"He who would travel happy must travel light."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fileshare Networking
Fileshare Networking
06/15/2004 09:24 PM
CleverCactus
Share Combine the social networking aspect of Orkut and Friendster
with the filesharing aspect of programs like Kazaa and WinMX, and you
get
clevercac
tus share. Get the RIAA off your back by only sharing file
folders with people you actually know. Throw in encrypted transfers
and platform-independency as a bonus.
General Public release
is scheduled for tomorrow, but you can sign up and start
today. N+I: Networking gears up
N+I: Networking gears up
05/12/2004 08:21 AMZDNet May 12 2004 12:42PM GMT
Tom's Networking
Tom's Networking
01/02/2004 02:25 PMTim Higgins of SmallNetBuilder and Tom's Hardware have a new offering:
Where does this site's operators turn to get the exhaustive
understanding of wireless technology and network issues? Tim Higgins.
His site, SmallNetBuilder, has merged with the Tom's Hardware site's
network section to form Tom's Hardware. Bookmark it!...
One man and his dog and his laptop
One man and his dog and his laptop
08/03/2004 05:47 AMReview Voice recognition in the field
The Best laptop bag
The Best laptop bag
12/02/2003 01:26 AM In a vast field of laptop bags I have finally found the perfect bag,
Timbuk2's Commute 2.0. I've tried...
New Laptop
New Laptop
06/16/2004 12:31 AMJust in time for JavaOne, I got me a new Thinkpad R50 laptop (specs
here, but with 512Mb). At 6.8lbs it's a bit heavier than the T41 I
initially considered, but the $200+ price difference just didn't seem
worth it for what (weight aside) is effectively the same machine...
It's a pretty sweet little machine: very good battery life, a... (302
words)
Cisco Networking Simplified
Cisco Networking Simplified
11/19/2003 12:59 PMWireless Networking For Farmers
Wireless Networking For Farmers
06/19/2004 03:07 PMCBS News Jun 19 2004 6:00PM GMT
Wi-Fi/3G Wireless Networking Solution
Wi-Fi/3G Wireless Networking Solution
11/13/2003 05:19 AM3G Nov 13 2003 4:15AM ET
Social networking for fish
Social networking for fish
11/17/2003 03:07 PMKen Rinaldo's amazing 'augmented reality robotic fish tanks' will have
their first showing in Lille on the 6th Dec: "Augmented...
What Interests You at Wi-Fi Networking
News?
What Interests You at Wi-Fi Networking
News?
07/30/2004 03:15 PMAnalyzing traffic since the start of extensive tracking of this site
shows that readers like knowing about security flaws, improvements:
It's a slow news day, and I've been looking at traffic analysis of
Wi-Fi Networking News to see what our top stories have been since we
started using Omniture reporting last fall. Over the last 10 months,
trends are clear, driven by Slashdot and other sites that refer
traffic: the most popular single stories on the site focus on security
-- six out of 10 stories. Two were about Wi-Fi detectors, and the
other two on unrelated topics. As security remains a hot issue in the
industry in general, you can expect that we'll continue to follow it.
The top 10 stories of the last 10 months are: Weakness in Passphrase
Choice in WPA Interface: Not one of our own stories, but a paper by
Robert Moskowitz. Wi-Fi Seeker review The Path to 802.11i: My
explanation of the roadmap to reaching full 802.11i
encryption/authentication/integrity deployment. Tool to Crack Cisco
LEAP Released WPA’s Little Secret: The background on the No. 1
story. Weak Defense…But Getting Better: My ongoing revision to
the current state of Wi-Fi security, currently slightly out of date.
WPA for Free under Windows 2000: How to get a free tool for WIndows
2000 to handle WPA encryption. A review of the WiFi Finder contributed
by a reader AMD’s Stealthy Rollout Slips Up: The article on AMD
allegedly plastering signs on hotspots in Austin and elsewhere that
weren't signed up for AMD's free hotspot directory. Or did they? The
story hasn't progressed much since a denial by AMD, and meetings
between AMD and Austin Wireless City. Turnkey Hot Spots: A
now-abandoned ongoing article that described how to buy and use
turnkey hotspots. Jiwire has a much more recent article that
incorporates my knowledge on this subject....
Networking Security Concepts
Networking Security Concepts
08/03/2004 05:48 AMSocial Networking Hangover
Social Networking Hangover
02/10/2004 02:41 AMAs many, many people have predicted, there's a point at which all of
these social networking services become... kind of pointless.
Everyone piles in, and "connects" with anyone they've ever emailed and
then you get the big
"um... what do we do now?" question. It appears that
despite the early rush into sites like Friendster, the fad is losing
steam, just as it did five years ago with sixdegrees.com. It's cool
for a few months, and then you realize there's nothing else to do.
The various services are desperately trying to add on features that
will bring back users and keep them engaged, but it turns out that the
thing that seems to attract most people to these sites is the signing
up and linking part - and after that, there's not much interest. The
article includes the interesting stat that, despite five million
registered users, Friendster received less than 1 million unique
visitors in December.
Rescuing Social Networking
Rescuing Social Networking
06/17/2005 03:27 PM
Recent reports of the demise of
Social Networking Applications (SNAs), voted "technology of the year"
by Business 2.0 just two years ago, are increasing. Most recently
C|Net's Molly Wood reported on Five Reasons
Social Networking Doesn't Work. While LinkedIn and eCademy are
hanging in there, many of the other entrants into the SNA space are
really struggling. I reported
last year on what I thought was wrong with the first generation of
social networking applications, and I haven't seen any significant
improvements become mainstream since then.
Wood complains that existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take
too
much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward,
and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as
well or better. It's not clear what problem they're trying to solve,
other than to provide a list of not-very-well qualified contacts for
people online who are looking (mostly for customers, employers or
dates). They remind me a lot of Chamber of Commerce meetings, with
consultants and agents outnumbering 'real' businesspeople, five
sellers
for every buyer. I belong to several SNAs but use them rarely, since
my
blog provides me with a more robust network than any SNA could ever
hope to do.
The challenge, as with most business and social problems, is getting
attention. Because good stories, useful, researched advice and
helpful,
informative conversations command attention, these are the tools of
the
trade in face-to-face networking events. Face to face meetings also
provide a huge amount of non-verbal information that allows people to
make considered judgements and to establish trust, which virtual
forums
can only accomplish awkwardly, and over time.
The lowly telephone, and Skype, are an improvement. Most of us can
converse iteratively faster and more competently in a voice
conversation than in a message thread, and get past the awkwardness
and
misunderstandings faster as a result. I've had some excellent Skype
conversations with people I have never met in person, and some ghastly
ones. I have proposed
a more robust, multimedia, multi-view Simple Virtual Presence (SVP)
tool such as what is illustrated above. There are people more
technologically competent and agile than I am who are achieving such
presence using a combination of tools now, but for most of us this is
still just a dream.
SNAs are therefore inherently not very good for building relationships
or for collaborative work. How are they at finding people for valuable
personal or business relationships? Once again we're back to the too
many sellers, too few buyers problem (it's the same with dating
services, I'm told). Useful SNAs need to be under the control of the
customer, not the vendor. They would be better advised to reinvent
themselves as a kind of very detailed person-to-person 'yellow pages',
to separate users' 'what I have' and 'what I need' personas, and to
focus specifically on the former, in a lot more detail, with
credentials and samples of offerings. In a way, that's what blogs do,
providing a space for one individual to exhibit as much of himself as
possible in as much detail as possible, which is why many recruiters
are now starting to peruse blogs in the search for extraordinary
people
or matches for very difficult fits. So a good SNA could offer a
condensed version of this: Who I am, What I offer, Who recommends me,
and Samples of what I do. Then the buyer can browse this 'catalogue'
and, if he thinks I might have what he's looking for (personally or
professionally) he is given contact information (ideally with the
richness of Simple Virtual Presence) to confirm through conversation
that my offer meets his requirements. Simple as that. Forget about the
discussion forums and the form-filling and all the other bells and
whistles that just complicate use and chew up time. Just give me a
yellow pages on steroids.
Once some standards emerge on formats for this information, it could
then be possible for people to post this information anywhere, in the
agreed-upon 'SNA2' format, so that we would no longer have to post my
information to each SNA 'yellow page' directory -- the SNA tools could
go out and harvest it automatically wherever we posted it, so we would
only have to maintain it once
(perhaps on our blog-jacke
t, personal website, or other online space).
So then we would have three
easy-to-use SNA tools, working in tandem, all built around the
'customer', the guy looking
for something:
- The
standard-format 'yellow pages' displaying our personal 'offerings',
- A Simple
Virtual Presence tool to qualify those offerings and to enable
powerful conversations, and
- Blogs as
'personal filing cabinets' that people could browse if
we were away from our phone/SVP tool, or if they wanted to see some
more of our stuff before attempting to call us and offer us a job, a
contract or a date.
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What
would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter
it, so that
the tool could track time we spent on each call and, with the
agreement
of the
other party, automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an
agreed-upon rate. Because it's the value you add person-to-person,
helping them in their personal context, once the introductions are
over
and they know they've found the person they want to 'hire', that could
finally realize the promise of online commerce.
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Sicial Networking has just evolved
Sicial Networking has just evolved
11/19/2003 08:01 AMHere's a
story published in Globes Arena about a garage start-up
called
Huminity that is
positioned to overtake Friendster in what Business 2.0 describes as
the
technology of the year. The software itself is a combination of a
chat-software and a social networking software, which is a pretty
different approach to the web-based social networking sites that
flooded the Internet lately. The facinating part is that is was built
by 2 friends with no funding that based everything on cheap and
effective open-source software, and through viral growth and word of
mouth built a network of more than 400,000 people. The funny thing is
that
Jonathan Abrams from
Friendster is also listed there...
Networking in the Danger Zone?
Networking in the Danger Zone?
06/18/2004 09:00 PMsocial networking as a web service
social networking as a web service
01/27/2004 02:23 AM
These folks totally groks it..... (their names
are Grant and Cyndie Berg.)
back and
forth over the social portal play. Zawodny on the point
missed: Stokes misses it not just once
, but twic
e.
Om nearl
y follows him off the "they just want my rolodex and why should I
give it to them" cliff, but veers at the last instant and manages to
strike a glancing blow at a worthy target by alluding to social
networking services embedded in client applications -- and spawns some
interesting comments.
Marc Canter's beating the FOAF drum
again. I'm looking forward to peopleaggregator's next
rev. Sifry's apparently working on FOAFing up Technorati, too. It isn't an
accident that Sifry's tagline is web services for
bloggers.
Anyway... back on topic...
Look, Friendster didn't get
$10m solely on the basis of its current business model. It sure as
shit didn't get it on the basis of its software / infrastructure [and
I hope they're spending some of that money on some
engineers].
They got it because, as Jon Udell and others have
pointed out (can't find link -- may be misattributing),
user-contributed data is a valid currency for the next generation of
online [web] service[s] businesses. And anyone who can succeed at
being a primary conduit for user contributed data which has bearing on
purchase decisions and product / technology adoption/popularity has a
great opportunity.
What Stokes seemed to miss, which Jeremy
alluded to initially and Marc re-iterates from another
vector:
"The place to make the money
is by adding value added, functionality, tools, services - what have -
AROUND these most basic of all instinctful notions. Not by charging
for the right to do them - in the first place!
So a
PeopleFinder or FriendRanking or Introduction manager or Private email
or IM enabler kind of platform - would be augmented with value added
tools - to become a new business model. This what I mean by 'new kinds
of tools."
... is that web services technologies
are going to enable a Friendster, an Amazon, and a Google to operate
in a unified manner delivering synergistic services to groups of
connected (define it any way you want) people with shared
interests.
This is what people are hopping up and down about,
and I think there's some solid cause [lineofsight - code + words +
pictures]
I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy. 2004 is looking to be pretty
interesting.
Get ready for 802.11n wireless
networking
Get ready for 802.11n wireless
networking
12/25/2003 02:01 PMJust at the point when most of us were getting used to saying 802.11g
rather than 802.11b, we're already starting to look ahead to
802.11n,...
THG Debuts Networking Guide
THG Debuts Networking Guide
01/03/2004 05:43 PMSlashdot Jan 3 2004 5:11PM ET
Mobile Mesh Networking
Mobile Mesh Networking
07/08/2004 07:16 AMcorante.com/mobilemesh
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Slow going for networking sector
Slow going for networking sector
09/22/2004 02:25 PMCorporate customers are still tight-fisted with their budgets as they
put off needed upgrades, analysts say.
Decentralised social networking
Decentralised social networking
01/05/2004 10:24 PMI know I'm late to the party, but my recent experiments with
LinkedIn and Friendster have got me all interested in the potential of
software that bulids on top of people's own social networks. There's
just one thing that's been bugging me, best explained by this quote from Om Malik:
The question I have is: why the F**K should I share my network of
contacts with these commercial entities. They are like BlogSpot that
does nothing for my brand equity and in many ways chews me out after
making the network connections. Thus what I want is a "MoveableType"
of social networking. Blogs took off because it was about one person -
me. My social networks should be of my making for me. Lets figure out
a way to cut out the middlemen.
Via John Battelle, here's the
answer: Plink, a social search engine which uses information crawled
from decentralised FOAF
files. It's nicely put together and could be just the incentive I need
to finally put together my own FOAF file.
Plink is also a nice example of the kind of thing the semantic web
hopes to offer. People provide information in easily parsed formats,
then others bulid third party applications on top of them that may
never have been envisaged by the creators of the original standards.
Feedster is another great
example of this effect in action.
Download: The Sockets Networking API
Download: The Sockets Networking API
01/19/2004 03:58 AMCNET Jan 19 2004 8:14AM GMT
Social Television Networking
Social Television Networking
06/28/2004 05:22 AMWhile lots of media companies have been trying to figure out how the
whole "social networking" phenomenon impacts their business, it looks
like AOL is trying to take the concept to the next level while also
being true to their plans of "convergence." They've patented the
concept of
buddy
list TV sharing. The idea is that you could see what your friends
were watching on TV and immediately tune in yourself. It's not too
hard to see how this would work. Already, the latest version of Yahoo
Messenger includes the ability to see what music your friends are
listening to and immediately tuning in yourself. This idea tries to
go a bit further. For instance, someone could set up a chat room
around a particular TV show, and could then play that show, while
everyone else could discuss it in real-time. To understand what
you're watching, it would require a set-top box that would tie into
your internet connection as well. Of course, it's unclear how such a
system will work in an age of TiVo when no-one watches a show at the
same time.
Is Social Networking a Snore?
Is Social Networking a Snore?
06/25/2004 05:22 PMDavid Hornik (Venture Blog): All
Social Networking Panels Are the Same. So in an effort to save
you a bunch of time and aggravation, here's a transcription of this
evening's event. I believe that it is essentially a transcription of
all past and all future social software panels, so read it and free
yourself of the need to ever attend such an event yourself.
Really, read it for yourself...
'Computing and networking could merge'
'Computing and networking could merge'
12/31/2004 06:35 AMExpress Computer India Dec 31 2004 10:53AM GMT
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