Social Networks News & Articles

Enterprise middleware vendor Tibco has partnered with Amazon AWS and The Netherlands based KPN for the cloud launch of its tibbr social network.

The paperless office appears further away than ever before. According to recent research from AIIM we are using more paper records than ever before, there are still significant problems capturing and storing information for records and, even worse, senior management is sticking its head in the sand and ignoring the inherent risks in these practices.

For social media networks like LinkedIn that aim to connect people that don’t really know each other the better the search, the better your service.

As one of the best New Yorker cartoons wisely noted, “On the Internet, no one can tell you’re a dog.” Now, a new social network named Spraffl is championing the idea that, for dogs and everyone else, location-based anonymity is the cat’s meow. 

The Janrain User Management Platform (JUMP) provides website owners with a solution for acquiring and managing users across social channels. Investors apparently believe in this product, as the company has now obtained US$ 20 million of a new US$ 33 million round of financing.

Anyone that thinks there is no money in news hasn't been following the fortunes of BuzzFeed. Describing itself as a social publisher, BuzzFeed has just announced that it has managed to raise another US$ 20 million to put towards its expansion plans.

As the year draws to a close, we tend to reflect on technological changes and trends over the past 12 months. This articles puts the focus on enterprise collaboration, how far we've come and where we have left to go. 

The idea of being completely anonymous on the internet is closer to reality with the release of a new, number based social network, Social Number.

Document collaboration software provider, Workshare, is joining the enterprise social network game with their acquisition of IdeaPlane.

Social influence measurement platform Klout has integrated Facebook pages into its Klout Score calculations -- which should result in higher scores for page users.

Klout, one of the best-known measures online influence, has made the most significant updates to its platform in its four-year history, and more changes are coming. Klout has incorporated twelve times more data points, quadrupled the social signals it considers and is focusing a more on “real-world influence.” The result? You might not be quite as big of deal as you thought you were on Monday.

Online training provider Mindflash is going social. Today, the Palo Alto, California-based company announced its first training app for Yammer, the business-oriented social network.

It was inevitable that when Microsoft announced it was buying Yammer there would be ripples across the industry, particularly with products and vendors that are closely tied into the Microsoft machine. One of those companies that has reacted the quickest is NewsGator, which has just announced that it is going to integrate its SharePoint-based application with Yammer.

Every year, IBM produces a number of reports that gauge how the market for different elements of IT is changing. One of the more useful ones is the study of midmarket CEOs and what they are doing in the IT space. This year, the study shows, they are doing collaboration and mobility.

Think that the young people today see their smartphones simply as a means to text or listen to music? You’re only half right. A new survey by Tyntec and YouGov shows that, among all age groups, young adults, or “millennials,” are leading the pack in interest to adopt new cloud-based models, including integrating texting and voice capabilities into new devices and online services. But that doesn't mean it will be easy.