It’s loved by millions and has risen from a small-time university social networking service to the biggest phenomenon on the Internet. It’s the phenomenon that is Facebook. Popularity, however, doesn’t come easy.

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Slideshow: Open source at Facebook

People all over the world spend a total of eight billion minutes a day on Facebook. Some 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, 400 billion Web pages are viewed every month and the site logs a staggering 25TB of data every day

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Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability

Big Blue wants a piece of high-flying Apple, as well as a slice of the social networking craze. As Macworld Expo gets underway in San Francisco today, IBM unveiled enterprise-class social software for the iPhone and Mac.

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IBM Aims to Bring Apple, Social Networking to the Enterprise

Social networking service LinkedIn is free, but if you choose to upgrade to a paid account, you have access to additional features. What are the four top advantages in updating your account?

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LinkedIn Quick Tip: Should You Upgrade to a Paid Account?

When you belong to several social networking sites-Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter-(and don’t we all?), keeping up with them can seem overwhelming. Tweet this

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7 Tools to Better Manage Your Social Networks

When you belong to several social networking sites-Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter-(and don’t we all?), keeping up with them can seem overwhelming. Tweet this. Update that status

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7 Tools to Better Manage Your Social Networks

MySpace has opened the submission period for its Developer Challenge, a contest in which the company will award US$50,000 in prizes for new applications and for innovative uses of the social networking site’s application programming interfaces.

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MySpace accepting submissions for app contest

Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange plans to open its e-mail inbox to messages from social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Open-Xchange integrates Facebook, Twitter with e-mail inbox

Social networking and cloud computing threats abound, our annual Global Information Security Survey finds, making information security important once again to business leaders.

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Why Security Matters Now

How to keep your team from getting distracted by social networking.

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Three Minute Coach: Social Networking