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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."

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Sourcing in a Time of Scarcity: The Evolution of Social Networking as an Aid to Hiring
sponsored by Taleo
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the promise held by social networking by offering people with common interests a place to gather and share contacts, opinions, experiences, and increasingly, job opportunities.
Posted: 06 Jan 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008
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Security threat report: 2009 - Prepare for this year's new threats
sponsored by Sophos Inc.
WHITE PAPER: 2008 proved that malware is more than just a Microsoft problem. This seems likely to continue in 2009, with the increasing popularity of mobile devices. It remains paramount that organizations defend themselves at all levels of their business.
Posted: 22 Dec 2008 | Published: 22 Dec 2008
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Choosing a Solution for Web-Filtering: Software, Appliance, Managed Service?
sponsored by MessageLabs
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper for a better look at managed web security services that enable businesses to set up and enforce acceptable usage policies that are flexible, fit-for-purpose and accommodate evolving needs and priorities.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, Their Employees and the Internet
sponsored by MessageLabs
WHITE PAPER: Web misuse can have serious implications for your business including security problems and legal risks. Read this whitepaper to learn more about services that give companies the ability to monitor and enforce their internet usage policies.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Hackers Announce Open Season on Web 2.0 Users and Browsers
sponsored by Purewire
WHITE PAPER: This paper details how the emergence of Web 2.0 has created a fertile threat environment for malware writers and distributors to spread their wares and offers a solution.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Messaging Security Solutions
sponsored by Websense, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn ways for your organization to institute a software-based gateway solution that incorporates multiple layers of real-time intelligence, providing protection against complex inbound and outbound threats.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Clustered Storage
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This document explains about Primary Storage Optimization and targeted to reduce the amount of raw storage capacity required to store a given data set.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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e-Book: Five Best Practices for Improving Customer Service through Community-Based Collaboration
sponsored by InQuira Inc
WHITE PAPER: This e-book offers insights that can help companies embrace social media, harvest knowledge from the conversations in user communities, and apply that knowledge to deliver better customer service.
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 | Published: 17 Oct 2008
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Web 2.0 for the Enterprise: Setting the Foundation for Success
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Bringing Web 2.0 to the enterprise is more than just the latest technology; it's about changing the traditional business model and tapping into the creativity, intellect, and passion of every single employee.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008
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The Social Enterprise: Using Social Enterprise Applications to Enable the Next Wave of Knowledge Worker Productivity
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise social applications are the next generation of collaboration and productivity tools, capturing the interpersonal knowledge of workers and the implicit connections among people, systems, and data.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008
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Rock Phishing: The Threat and Recommended Countermeasures
sponsored by MarkMonitor
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, we discuss the history of the Rock Phish Gang as well as their attack methodology and how it has evolved. We also review the actions that businesses can take to prevent and defeat an attack by the Rock Phish Gang.
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 | Published: 09 Oct 2008
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Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how Sales and Marketing professionals are beginning to see they can use social media applications such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Jigsaw to do a better job of selling and marketing to their customers.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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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
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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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Security Trends 2008
sponsored by Kaspersky Lab
WHITE PAPER: With increasingly sophisticated cybercrime networks and complex corporate information systems, collisions and intersections between them are a key factor in risk management for businesses in 2008.
Posted: 21 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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5 Best Practices for Telling Great Stories with Data and Why It Will Make You a Better Analyst
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: 01 Feb 2008
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SOCIAL NETWORKING DEFINITION (continued): …  the 1950's, Ithiel de Sola Pool (MIT) and Manfred Kochen (IBM) set out to prove the theory 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." … 
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