IBM Lotusphere 2011 – Get Social, Do Business

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A week ago, IBM has just held a Lotusphere 2011, an annual gathering event of all IBM Lotus stakeholders which was held at Disney World, Orlando, USA.

On this occasion gathered more than 5000 people who have an attachment with IBM Lotus, like IBM employees, business partners, as well as users from around the world. The tagline this year is Get Social, Do Business.

Among many social networks that arise and sink, two of which have become icons, Facebook and Twitter. Of course, the phenomenon is the presence of Facebook, which has made its founder Mark Zuckerberg as the world’s youngest billionaire. Time magazine even made it as a Person of the Year 2010.

And it’s not a coincidence that in the opening of Lotusphere 2011 this time, IBM presents Kevin Spacey to be the keynote speaker. He is the protagonist in the American Beauty who won the Oscar 2 times, and also the executive producer of the Social Network.

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Quora, a Twitter killer?

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Throughout the year 2010, the popularity of Facebook and Twitter is dominating. In contrast, MySpace, Friendster, and Bebo, slowly are fading in the universe of social networking. How are social networks in 2011?

Some say Facebook will fail to reach IPO (Initial Public Offering) despite its valuation which already reached US$50 billion, MySpace will be sold, Twitter will be boring. However, talking about Twitter like services, it seems still becoming the trending in social networking this year. Continue Reading >>>Quora, a Twitter killer?.