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14 Reasons to Join a Social Network

It seems like almost everyone, from kids to great grandparents, is fired up about social networking. If you haven't yet taken the plunge, here are some reasons to get started.

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A Day of Open Source Releases

Thursday July 03, 2008
Both Microsoft and Google have released open source versions of internal tools. Google's release is Ratproxy, a cross-platform tool for helping identify security vulnerabilities in your web server if you're running a Web 2.0 site. Written in C, it monitors traffic flow between browser and web server so there's no...

1.7 Billion Mobile Web Users by 2013

Thursday July 03, 2008
A new report by Juniper Research estimates that the number of people getting their dose of Web 2.0 from mobile devices will reach 1.7 billion by the year 2013, which would mean roughly one in every four people on the planet would be able to connect through their smartphone. Couple this...

.Mac to MobileMe - Get Ready for the Transition

Thursday July 03, 2008
If you’re a .Mac user, Apple encourages you to sync your .Mac bookmarks back to your Mac by July 6, to ensure that you don’t lose your bookmark data during the transition to MobileMe. The new MobileMe service lacks online bookmark storage, although it will sync bookmarks between computers. So...

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