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Michael Jordan is a retired American professional basketball player. Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he became one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his ... generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA ( ) around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984 and quickly emerged as one of the stars of the league. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the foul line at Slam Dunk Contests , earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness." Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five NBA MVP ( Most Valuable Player ) awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances and three All-Star MVPs, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards , and the 1988 . He holds the NBA record for highest career regular season scoring average with 30.1 points per game, as well as   [More...] [Less...]

Store and share documents online with Office Live Workspace 

*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States (and District of Columbia), 18 years or older. Sweepstakes end at 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on May 11, 2008. Official rules . Find ... out how to opt out . Winners will be notified via e-mail and have 3 days to claim daily and overall prize period prizes.   [More...] [Less...]

Mashable - Social Networking News 

September 13, 2007 — 05:26 PM PDT — by Kristen Nicole — Share This — 1 Comment HyperiGo is a new bookmarking tool that saves an entire screenshot of your bookmarks, instead of just descriptive text. This ... is slightly similar to StumbleUpon , which also includes screenshots for its bookmarks. With this tool, there are some pre-formatted folders that you can add different bookmarks into. For instance, you can choose to place a bookmark in the News, Games or Music folders. There’s also the option of creating new folders, and all folders appear as tabs. In order to add a bookmark, you’ll need to click on the “add bookmark” link, which pulls up a window for you to insert the URL and the name of your bookmark. There are three different options for viewing your bookmarks: small thumbnails, large thumbnails, or text (I suggest you choose text). Bookmarks can be filtered by alphabetical order, most viewed, or last visited. You can also make your account public or private, so bookmarks can be ac   [More...] [Less...]

'Virtual watercooler' makes workplace more fun - CNN.com 

Story Highlights Beehive is an online portal for employees to describe their expertise, and to connect 27,000 IBMers using Beehive can post pictures, video and one-sentence updates Including a dose of ... Facebook and MySpace "can make work suck less" Now Intel is exploring whether virtual-world software will help employees collaborate Next Article in Technology » OK, so those days aren't gone yet. But as big companies parcel Information Age work to people in widely dispersed locations, it's getting harder for colleagues to develop the camaraderie that comes from being in the same place. Beyond making work less fun, feeling disconnected from comrades might be a drag on productivity. Now technology researchers are trying to replicate old-fashioned office interactions by transforming everyday business software for the new era of work. The historically dry-as-sawdust products are borrowing elements from video games and social-networking Web sites. You can tell just from looking at the Beehive   [More...] [Less...]

What Is Web 2.0 - Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software 

Social Bookmarking Tools - A General Review 

Introduction Because, to paraphrase a pop music lyric from a certain rock and roll band of yesterday, " the Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you ", it seems like we might have to ... face up to some of these stark realities [ n1 ]. With the introduction of new social software applications such as blogs, wikis, newsfeeds, social networks, and bookmarking tools (the subject of this paper), the claim that Shelley Powers makes in a Burningbird blog entry [ 1 ] seems apposite: " This is the user's web now, which means it's my web and I can make the rules. " Reinvention is revolution it brings us always back to beginnings. We are here going to remind you of hyperlinks in all their glory, sell you on the idea of bookmarking hyperlinks, point you at other folks who are doing the same, and tell you why this is a good thing. Just as long as those hyperlinks (or let's call them plain old links) are managed, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a   [More...] [Less...]

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Web 2.0 for Business - What Is It and Where Is It Going? Rick Robinson Presentation from the IET seminar on Next Generation Internet Speaker: Rick Robinson, Web 2.0 Technologist, Emerging Technology Services, ... IT Architect, IBM, UK 27 Sep 2007 Technology - Information Professional ∙ Applications and technologies associated with Web 2.0 and their potential impact on the society ∙ Most promising trends for continued evolution ∙ Business propositions arising from Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook, Google and NewsVine ∙ The latest thoughts on Internet transformation after Web 2.0 <!-- Start of IET.TV webcast --> <script src="http://www.iet.tv/f/core/frontend/http/http.php?embed=5722popup=0.1.1.1%211.1.3.29946%2129946.2.1.29947-1" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- End of IET.TV webcast -->   [More...] [Less...]

GroupSwim: SaaS-Style Collaboration - ReadWriteWeb 

Knowledge is everywhere - be it within individuals, in Salesforce, via Google, in emails etc Search sucks - it's hard, it's not semantic and everyone has different ideas how to use it Knowledge is locked ... in people heads, so an individual doesn't know who is an expert on any one particular subject Other offerings are difficult to use and expensive So what does GroupSwim offer? Their solution has: A nice Web 2.0 interface An open architecture that allows it to grow, adapt and morph at will The benefit of leveraging community intelligence A robust enterprise grade architecture How does it work? Once a user creates an account, they can create multiple communities within their account. This has two benefits - it means a business can have different communities for different parts of the business, but it also means that an individual user, with one single sign on, can access all of the groups they are subscribed to. This is all nice but not unique, GroupSwim's main benefit comes from its sema   [More...] [Less...]

IET.TV - Web 2.0 for Business - What Is It and Where Is It Going? 

Web 2.0 for Business - What Is It and Where Is It Going? Rick Robinson Presentation from the IET seminar on Next Generation Internet Speaker: Rick Robinson, Web 2.0 Technologist, Emerging Technology ... Services, IT Architect, IBM, UK 27 Sep 2007 Technology - Information Professional ∙ Applications and technologies associated with Web 2.0 and their potential impact on the society ∙ Most promising trends for continued evolution ∙ Business propositions arising from Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook, Google and NewsVine ∙ The latest thoughts on Internet transformation after Web 2.0 <!-- Start of IET.TV webcast --> <script src="http://www.iet.tv/f/core/frontend/http/http.php?embed=5512popup=0.1.1.1%211.1.3.29946%2129946.2.1.29947-1" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- End of IET.TV webcast -->   [More...] [Less...]