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DEFINITION: Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals. While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies themselves have existed, the unparalleled potential of the Internet to promote such connections  … 
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Why Social Software & Mashups Matter to Your Business
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WEBCAST: Learn how to establish effective dynamic networks of coworkers, partners, customers, as well as how IBM Mashup Center, a lightweight mashup platform, allows users to quickly assemble new applications from existing enterprise.
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SOCIAL COMPUTING DEFINITION (continued): …  is only now being fully recognized and exploited, through Web-based groups established for that purpose.

Based on the six degrees of separation concept (the idea that any two people on the planet could make contact through a chain of no more than five intermediaries), social networking establishes interconnected Internet communities (sometimes known as personal networks) that help people make contacts that would be good for them to know, but that they would be unlikely to have met … 
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