Actiance (www.actiance.com), enablers of the safe and compliant use of unified communications, collaboration and Web 2.0, today announced new capabilities within its Socialite solution to proactively allow organizations to approve content and changes made to employee LinkedIn profiles The only vendor to provide Static Content Pre-Approval Workflow, Actiance ensures all companies, including financial services firms, can remain in compliance with regulations, such as Financial Industry Regulatory Advisory (FINRA) Regulatory Notice 10-06, which requires all static content to be pre-approved prior to publishing. << MORE >>

Social business provider SITEFORUM, is co hosting a series of presentations and a panel debate on Tuesday 15th March, to discuss how companies can capture the true potential of social business and generate measurable bottom-line results. << MORE >>

Queplix(tm) Corp. (www.queplix.com), a leader in data virtualization, today introduced three new Application Software Blades(tm) (http://bit.ly/e4wpQf) integrating social media sites and their content. Companies can now securely and automatically capture information from FaceBook®, LinkedIn® and Google® Contacts and harmonize it with their own corporate data. Queplix is the first data virtualization solutions provider to bring packaged social media data integration capability into a standard product family for use in corporate data integration projects.<< MORE >>

Synacor, a leading technology company providing Internet solutions to ISPs, media companies and advertisers, announced today that veteran interactive media executive Tim Peterman has been named Chief Operating Officer of the company. - Auntie Social the Social Network Architect << MORE >>

The Social Desktop blends the Web and PC by embedding Web oriented sharing inside your desktop, allowing every document to have the ability to have a backing social URL for sharing without having to upload or copy or move it from it's natural location. This url provides access not just to the file, but to a built in social experience which includes a rich preview of each item, comments, related items, tags, etc. Whenever friends comment with this social link via the web browser, the conversation is also available directly in Windows, and vice versa. - Social Network Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Social computing is becoming a significant customer relationship management (CRM) market trend and represents a disruptive force in this market, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that, by 2010, more than 60 per cent of Fortune 1000 companies will have some form of online community that can be used for customer relationship purposes. - Social Network Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Pushing Friend Connect and Open Social, Google launched its 80th official blog today - Social Web Blog. The blog will cover "News and updates about Google products that are helping to make the world more social. - Social Network Architect - THE SOCIAL NETWORK << MORE >>

Today Appirio (www.appirio.com), a leading on-demand products and professional services company, introduced the Appirio Referral Management Solution to help businesses take advantage of existing social networks like Facebook to recruit new employees, raise awareness of new offerings and create closer relationships with customers. The new Appirio solution connects today's fastest-growing social network, Facebook, with over 150 million users, and salesforce.com's industry-leading CRM and Force.com platform to give companies a more systematic way to encourage, manage and measure word-of-mouth referrals. - Social Network Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Scott Degraffenreid, an expert on Millenials, and Principal in N2Millennial, will explain the myths and realities about Millennials and what works in down times to motivate them to deliver their best efforts. - Social Network Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Data portability is great for social computing users, but it may be even better for Google, Facebook and MySpace. Data portability enables the three social networking giants to gain (and share) valuable new information about how their subscribers are using the Internet. As a result they will be able to tailor their sites even more finely to user needs. And as providers’ networks of third-party sites grow, more users will have more incentive to create accounts, thus spurring additional growth and improving each provider’s market position – and value. - Social Network Architect - THE SOCIAL NETWORK << MORE >>

This week, Saugatuck participated in two conferences – Defrag 2008, in Denver , CO and Dreamforce 2008, in San Francisco, CA. Both conferences squarely addressed the challenges associated with the increasingly social nature of the web, and the associated explosion of data and information with which individuals are presented. - SOCIAL Network Architect - THE SOCIAL NETWORK << MORE >>

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the launch of two social networking portals especially designed to connect and empower the global education community. The new EduConnection.org community serves Sun’s education sector customers, while Open Source University Meetup (OSUM, pronounced “awesome”) caters to students interested in open source programming tools and platforms. - Social Network Architect - THE SOCIAL NETWORK << MORE >>

MySpace, the world’s premiere social network, and TheWB.com, today announced a content partnership to bring the new original digital series “Sorority Forever” – created by director/producer McG (“Terminator Salvation,” “The O.C.,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “We Are Marshall”) and the producers of the hit Internet series “Prom Queen” – from TheWB.com (www.thewb.com) to MySpaceTV (http://www.myspacetv.com). - Social Network Architect - THE SOCIAL NETWORK << MORE >>

Oracle uses social networks to manage upcoming Oracle OpenWorld Conference - Social Network Architect - THE SOCIAL NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The WB is back in business, with the official public launch today of TheWB.com – a premium, ad-supported, video-on-demand, interactive and personalized network – to the public. Announced in April, TheWB.com had previously been in private beta and now transitions to an open, public beta. - Social Network Architect - THE SOCIAL NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

On Monday, November 3rd, Saugatuck Technology research vice president Mark Koenig will address these key issues in a keynote at the Defrag Conference 2008, to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Denver, CO. Mr. Koenig’s presentation will include findings from Saugatuck’s latest research into Enterprise Social Computing in a session titled, “Social Computing and the Enterprise: Bridging the Gaps.” - SOCIAL NETWORK ARCHITECT - THE SOCIAL NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Quarterlife.com launches the Quarterlife Internship Program to help students connect with employers. Students can search the extensive internship listings for FREE and companies can post internship opportunities for FREE. Lauren Berger, "The Intern Queen", runs the program and adds content, advice, and blogs to educate students on the importance of interning. - Social Network Architect - WEB 2.0 NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Comodo, a provider of Identity and Trust Assurance Management solutions, announced that its UserTrust platform is becoming a powerful tool that helps eMerchants create a social network environment in which prospects can see past consumers' experiences with the eMerchant. - Social Network Architect - IT Resource Network << MORE >>

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and Joyent Inc. today announced a collaboration that will accelerate the development and deployment of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. Providing up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent's Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost. - Social Network Architect - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Tata Consultancy Services launched a Co-Innovation Network, a collaborative model aimed at taking the company to the next level of innovation and growth. And Forrester Research featured a research study that highlighted that this network "signals a major shift in the innovation strategy of global IT service providers". - Social Network Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Me.com., the leading solution provider for building branded, customizable, online communities, today announced the launch of its turnkey Social Networking Application Platform, or SNAPP(tm), product family -- that includes more than 40 integrated social networking features. - Social Network Architect<< MORE >>

BEA Showcases Its Vision For Social Computing In The Enterprise To Over 500 Attendees At Unique User Event. - Social Network Architect << MORE >>

The networking giant sees WebEx as a key part of its online collaboration strategy for SMBs. - Social Network Architect << MORE >>

Ning, a new Web service, lets users become the CEOs of their own mini-MySpaces. - Social Network Architect << MORE >>

Here are a series of articles applying Virtual Worlds to Business. - Social Network Architect<< MORE >>

Once thought to be a glut of Fiber, Social Networking could soon be taxing Carrier Networks. - Social Network Architect<< MORE >>

The Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it, said Google’s vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Vinton Cerf, in reference to the proliferation of fraud, social abuse and other online crimes. - Social Network Architect << MORE >>

The Next Generation of the internet is coming upon us and those Enterprises that don't adapt will be left behind. - Social Network Architect<< MORE >>

Even Cisco Systems, the stately technology giant best known for delivering the boring pipes (or tubes) of the Internet backbone, has fallen for Web 2.0. - Social Network Architect << MORE >>

Cisco to buy social networking company Five Across.<< MORE >>

In a global economy that is increasingly service-based, information is a vital asset, and collaboration is the engine that generates value from this asset. - Social Network Architect << MORE >>

Cisco Systems is diversifying into social networking. The company is to acquire Five Across, a social-networking software company, that offers a product called Connect Community Builder. - Social Network Architect << MORE >>

Business is getting serious about the consumer phenomenon known as social networking. - Social Network Archtitect<< MORE >>