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DEFINITION: Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called "Chains."In the 1950's, Ithiel de Sola Pool (MIT) and Manfred Kochen (IBM) set out to prove the theory mathematically.  … 
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SUN SYSTEMS FOR ENTERPRISE 2.0 WITH ORACLE
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Enterprises today are seeking new communication technologies, such as wikis, blogs, and forums, to improve communication and collaboration and increase employee productivity.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009


Preparing for the 2.0 World: How Enterprises Need to Think About Emergent Social Technologies
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Social technologies, commonly called Web 2.0, were originally used to describe consumer technologies that enable groups to organize and share information and media. But enterprises quickly caught on to the value of these easy-to-use tools for capturing and sharing ad hoc information that may otherwise not be documented.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009


Best Practices for Securing Web 2.0
sponsored by Patriot Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper was designed with the aim of revealing, understanding, analyzing, and presenting the predominant issues relating to the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the corporate environment.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


Winning Strategies for the Evolving Legal Marketplace
sponsored by BlackBerry
WHITE PAPER: Law firms have had to develop new strategies to compete and win in a legal market that contains greater uncertainty than any that has come before it. This paper will briefly outline strategies for success in the evolving legal marketplace.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009


Adding Application Control to Your Security Toolbox
sponsored by Fortinet, Inc. / Alternative Technology Group of Arrow ECS
WHITE PAPER: Read this solution guide for suggestions on how to get the most out of implementing application control in your network. After discussing the expanding applications frontier and its impact on an enterprise, the paper defines application control and reviews the requirements it must meet.
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009


Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
sponsored by Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009


CRM and Social Networking: Engaging the Social Customer
sponsored by Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: As social networking sites explode in popularity, the hype and interest continue to build. But sorting the fact from the hype can be a challenge. This paper discusses tangible ways that organizations can extract measurable business value from social networking by leveraging it in conjunction with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009


BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck?
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The challenges faced by today’s government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied—and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009


The Web Hacking Incidents Database 2009 Bi-Annual Report
sponsored by Breach Security
WHITE PAPER: Criminals focus on exploiting web application vulnerabilities in order to plant malware and thus infect clients who visit websites. Read this report to learn more about the drivers behind web hacking, the vulnerabilities hackers exploit, and the types of organizations attacked most often.
Posted: 20 Aug 2009 | Published: 20 Aug 2009


Successfully Integrating Collaboration into the Workplace
sponsored by Orange Business Services
WHITE PAPER: Collaboration is one of the hottest topics in the workplace today as market and technology trends drive changes in how employees work together. This paper looks at those trends and suggests ways for information technology (IT) organizations to enable and support the changes that are affecting the way their employees work. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 21 Jul 2009 | Published: 21 Jul 2009


Top 10 Web Trends in 2009
sponsored by Blue Coat
WHITE PAPER: Read this solution brief to discover the top ten web trends for 2009 and how they may affect your enterprise.
Posted: 15 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009


Social CRM Comes of Age
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Web 2.0. Collaborative computing. Social media. And now Social CRM. These terms are used interchangeably, and often, to describe the massive transformation taking place across organizations today. What strategies and tools do the newest CRM solutions provide to leverage this new reality? Read this white paper to learn more about Social CRM.
Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009


Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines research that reveals how sales and marketing professionals who use collaboration and Sales 2.0 tools gain a competitive advantage over their peers who do not use them.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008


It's All about the Salesperson: Taking Advantage of Web 2.0
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the challenges salespeople face, the growing Web 2.0 trend in the enterprise, and the drivers for a new breed of social applications that complement traditional CRM systems to help sales users close more deals quickly.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008


5 Best Practices for Telling Great Stories with Data
sponsored by Tableau Software
WHITE PAPER: Data doesn't have to be only fact driven and metric. Learn these five best practices to help you make sense and order out of a disparate collection of facts.
Posted: 20 Feb 2008 | Published: 20 Feb 2008

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SOCIAL NETWORKING DEFINITION (continued): …  Although they were able to phrase the question (given a set N of people, what is the probability that each member of N is connected to another member via k_1, k_2, k_3...k_n links?), after twenty years they were still unable to solve the problem to their own satisfaction. In 1967, American sociologist Stanley Milgram devised a new way to test the theory, which he called "the small-world problem." He randomly selected people in the mid-West to send packages to a stranger located in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient's name, occupation, and general location. They were instructed to send … 
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