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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  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Social Networking
The Gilbane Group Research Report: Social Media & Collaboration Trends - 2008
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this report to learn more about key industry tends for collaboration and social media, the best practices driving this emerging market segment, and how to identify the principle players in this market.
Posted: 20 Aug 2008 | Published: 15 Aug 2008
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Choose Your Collaboration Destiny
sponsored by IBM
VIDEOCAST: Test your skills real-time and learn how IBM collaboration solutions - backed by Web 2.0 technology - are greatly assisting businesses to take collaboration to the next level across employees customers, suppliers, and partners.
Posted: 13 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 13 Aug 2008
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Why Social Software & Mashups Matter to Your Business
sponsored by IBM
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.
Posted: 12 Aug 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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How Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 Enable Business Banking Client Relationships
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at recent catalysts of change and how new Rich Internet Application technologies are clearing roadblocks that have historically blocked progress in online business banking.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Web 2.0: Tips for Recruiting in a New Landscape
sponsored by iCIMS
WHITE PAPER: Many of the new social media tools can be leveraged by recruiters in order to aid in their recruitment efforts and gain a competitive advantage. This white paper explains how.
Posted: 17 Jul 2008 | Published: 17 Jul 2008
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PODCAST: Web 2.0 in Action! How SAP is Leveraging Web 2.0 in CRM to Improve Customer Experience
sponsored by SAP America Inc
PODCAST: Explore how CRM now includes Web 2.0 capabilities that enhance user experience and productivity. Learn more about a highly personalizable, interactive user interface and how it enables content syndication from internal and external data sources.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 15 Jul 2008
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Social Media Marketing
sponsored by HubSpot
WEBCAST: In this webcast Mike Volpe, VP of Marketing for HubSpot discusses why social media is important. Social media's state of mind, 3 types of social media and its measuring results will also be discussed.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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E-Book When the Personal Meets the Professional
sponsored by BlackBerry
WHITE PAPER: From laptops to smartphones, VPNs to SMS, every midmarket business must manage a growing number of mobile technologies, many of them creeping over from the consumer sphere.
Posted: 10 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Why Your URL Filter, Firewall, and Desktop Antivirus are all Failing You
sponsored by Aladdin Knowledge Systems
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will cover current and emerging Web-based malware exploits, their methodologies, and their vectors of infection.
Posted: 18 Mar 2008 | Published: 18 Mar 2008
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Successful Social Networking and User Generated Content Applications: What You Need to Know
sponsored by Akamai Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the dramatic shift in communication brought about by social networking and discusses how some companies are already capitalizing on this revolution.
Posted: 07 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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SOCIAL NETWORKING DEFINITION (continued): …  mathematically. 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 … 
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