Think you exert an influence on your Facebook or MySpace friends? Then you could find yourself being used by advertisers to get people to pay more for products, according to US researchers.

Using economic models they predict new tactics to exploit the personal information that online social-networking sites provide.

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What’s the most important factor in getting your bulk e-mails delivered? Many industry leaders are pointing to reputation of the sender. It used to be that ISPs would scan e-mails for content. But these days, most have turned to reputation as they key factor. Of course, this concept of “reputation” includes a number of factors…read more

If you’ve never heard of Drupal, you probably will be soon. Drupal is a free software package otherwise known as a Content Management System (CMS) that allows individuals or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power a spectrum of different websites…from Community Web Portals and Social Networking sites to Corporate and E-commerce applications. Here are a few showcase Drupal websites that give a flavor of the possibilities: Cagora.com, Sony Music, Sibarth.com, Spread Firefox.

As an open-source software platform distributed under the GPL (”General Public License”), Drupal is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of aficionados and developers. Drupal is free to download and use with built-in functionality as well as dozens of freely available add-on modules that enable:

• Content Management Systems
• Blogs
• Collaborative authoring environments
• Forums
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Newsletters
• Podcasting
• Picture galleries
• File uploads and downloads

and much more. Is Drupal Right for You?

Following on the third beta release two weeks ago, we are ready to present Drupal 6.0 beta 4. Since the previous beta release, we have committed over 80 fixes to the Drupal 6.x code. This beta version includes some usability improvements and lots of bug fixes for issues which the testers and contributed module upgraders encountered. read more