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Will Google Buzz be Wave's demise?

If Google Wave eventually fails to live up to the promise and hype that accompanied its launch, consider its demise an inside job. Read more »

Microsoft Outlook makes friends with MySpace

If you use both Outlook and MySpace, you are part of an interesting demographic. But you are also in luck. Read more »

Facebook patents social feeds

Facebook has been awarded a patent pertaining to streaming "feed" technology, more specifically "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network". Read more »

Facebook still pitching itself to open-source crowd

Facebook's rep at the Future of Web Apps event in Miami this week was David Recordon, the company's open-standards guru. That's a crowd that the social network still has yet to win over. Read more »

Symbian 3 unveiled

The revamped open-source mobile platform brings a host of much-needed improvements and enhancements in three key areas: user interface, multimedia and performance. Read more »

Microsoft Outlook intros social-network link

In a move to marry its old-school Office product with the newer trends of the internet, Microsoft has issued beta software that brings social-network information into Outlook. Read more »

Buzz gets privacy upgrade

Google has announced changes to Google Buzz after a backlash over privacy concerns with the new service. Read more »

Google debuts Buzz social networking

Google announced on Tuesday that it was immediately rolling out Google Buzz, a location-aware social networking tool highly integrated with its Gmail client, Google Maps and a new Android app. Read more »

Google to make Gmail a little more social

Google is getting ready to add social-networking features into Gmail as it attempts to jump-start its social Web strategy. Read more »

Google Social Search out of Labs, into beta

Friends on social-networking services who add links to their content inside their Google Profiles will start showing up in search results for Google users. Read more »

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KDE 4.3.5 is starting to seriously impress

KDE 4.3.5 is out. Does it finally bring KDE back to its golden days it enjoyed with 3.5? The author gives you his impressions of the latest release and what this means to the Linux desktop. Read more »

Five tips for tackling a one-time project

Don't let a one-time project derail your career. Here are tips on how to successfully manage a "once-in-a-career" event. Read more »

Book review: Teach yourself Drupal with this text

Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours makes learning Drupal easy for even non-programmers. Read more »

Configuring VoIP in Twinkle

If you need a reliable and capable SIP softphone for Linux, this article suggests using the feature-rich Twinkle to configure its use. Read more »

The pros and cons of using Twitter as a server notification tool

Twitter is breaking out of its "look at me" shackles and has real business value. This article suggests using Twitter for server notifications. Read more »

10 ways to stay sane in your cubicle

If you're stuck in a cube 40 hours a week, you may need a few coping strategies to keep from going crazy. This article offers some survival tips to help make your workdays more bearable -- and maybe even enjoyable. Read more »

10 low-cost, high-value Web 2.0 strategies

Innovation around Web 2.0 technologies continues to pick up steam as companies look for ways to cut spending and get more from the solutions they choose. This article outlines some of the top cost-effective web-orientated tools and strategies. Read more »

Social computing: Start small, think big

Don't be afraid of social networking and blogs in the office, says Freeform Dynamics's David Tebbutt. Here's how you can make them work for you. Read more »

Security in the Web 2.0 Era

At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Sydney this week, Andrew Walls, the research director and security analyst at Gartner presented "Security in the Age of E-Commerce and Web 2.0". Read more »

Why AOL wants developers to put passion over profit

Edwin Aoki, technology fellow at AOL, speaks about the impact web applications have had in the enterprise and what trends are emerging. Read more »

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Motorola debuts Motoblur and Cliq

At the Mobilize conference held in San Francisco, Motorola unveiled Motoblur, a new user interface based around social networking. The Android OS-based skin will feature live widgets for integrating sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, as well as aggregating contact details and displaying recent status updates during calls. Read more »

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Mad May: Social networks, Sun/Oracle & iPhone

ZDNet.com correspondent Sumi Das speaks with senior editor Sam Diaz about the efforts of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, the significance of the Sun-Oracle deal to the datacentre market and the rumours swirling around Apple. Read more »

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Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect

At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users. Read more »

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Scaling fast-growing Facebook

Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about devising the infrastructure to support the social network's hypergrowth. Read more »

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Will Web users flock to Flock?

On "Working Webware," ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Webware editor Rafe Needleman sit down with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin to find out about the company's social media browser, its role in the open-source community, and how it plans to compete against rivals Microsoft and Mozilla. Farber and Needleman also analyze the company's odds for success and Flock's fate in the next-generation browser wars. Read more »

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Super Techies: Marc Canter

In this Super Techies interview, larger-than-life techie Marc Canter talks with ZDNet's Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a multimedia pioneer. Canter discusses his first job as a music programmer for video games; designing the multimedia authoring tools Shockwave and Director; and his current role as CEO of Broadband Mechanics, makers of open-source social networks. Read more »

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The reality of mobile Linux: Part two

At the Mobile World Congress, we examine Linux handsets which are already on the market, as well as a low-cost Linux-based 3G phone and Google's Android platform Read more »

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The reality of mobile Linux: Part one

At the Mobile World Congress, we look at how mobile Linux is already making an impact on handsets, with platforms and toolkits shown off by Trolltech, Access and Azingo Read more »

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Gates talks free tools and Yahoo rationale

Bill Gates explains why the company is giving away its developer tools to students and offers a glimpse at the rationale behind the Yahoo bid. Read more »

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SCO's alive! -- Club Builder

SCO is back from the dead with $100 million in funding, Bruce Schneier explains how infinite number theory relates to security and Dr Dan arrives to offer some Wii tips. Read more »

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