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• Anonymous takes aim at Google+ in more ways than one

  Google+ may be getting some attention it doesn't want -- from Anonymous, which says it will target the new social networking site that launched last month.

• No IT? No offices? No problem for this virtual firm

  With no official corporate office or IT staff, the 30 full-time Gurnet Consulting consultants have become some of the industry's ultimate <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011/enterprise3/060611-saas-tips.html">power cloud</a> and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070511-social-networking.html">social networking</a> users.

• Microsoft interns invent smarter photo tagging

  So many pictures, so little time to tag all those <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/smartphones.html">smartphone</a>-generated memories. A pair of Microsoft interns have come up with a remedy.

• 5 hot social networking sites

  The social networking scene is constantly in flux. The big 3 (Facebook, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/052610-twitter-quiz.html">Twitter</a> and LinkedIn) are at the top of the heap right now. But challengers are springing up all the time, hoping to leverage the next big wave into a lucrative IPO.

• Cisco Cius is not a tablet

  Despite its inevitable comparisons to the popular Apple iPad, Cisco's Cius is viewed more as another entry point into Cisco's collaboration ecosystem and less as the company's entry into tablet computing.

• TwitPic founder ditches clothes, Twitter founder ditches job

  Noah Everett really has nothing to hide: He posted overnight to Twitter, including a photo via the TwitPic service he created, almost immediately upon being picked up by the cops in Charleston, S.C., for strolling down his street in the buff.

• Pope uses iPad, Twitter to launch new Vatican website

  Pope Benedict XVI has announced a new Vatican website, via his first Twitter post, from an Apple iPad. But you won't be able to follow him on Twitter and he probably won't be following you.

• 5 top social media security threats

  Social media platforms such as <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/052610-twitter-quiz.html">Twitter</a>, Facebook and LinkedIn increasingly are being used by enterprises to engage with customers, build their brands and communicate information to the rest of the world.

• Baseball fans turn to social media to torch botched Bernie Brewer scavenger hunt

  A marketing promotion by the <a href="http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/mil/fan_forum/wheresbernie.jsp">Milwaukee Brewers</a> to have baseball fans hunt for 1,400 little Bernie Brewer statues across Wisconsin to win tickets and autographs has created a social media storm this week because of people who didn't play fair.

• Facebook, Twitter need corporate security policies

  Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter open threats to sensitive corporate data that businesses need to deal with aggressively, Interop attendees were told.

• Q&A: RIM's take on social networking

  Although Research in Motion made its name by delivering secure corporate email, it has had to move quickly to adapt to the ever-shifting world of social networking.

• Internet creaks under tidal wave of bin Laden death news

  President Obama's late-night announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs triggered a massive amount of real-time comments, searches, social networking and video streaming. The traffic explosion bogged down news pages and for a while even crashed CNN's mobile news site.

• Facebook's 'green' data center design to have ripple effect

  Facebook's innovative new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> design -- believed to be one of the world's most energy-efficient facilities of its kind -- will have a significant influence on corporate data center build-outs over the next several years, experts say.

• Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know?

  <a href="http://www.quora.com/Bob-Brown-5">Quora</a> is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to  flee Tokyo following an earthquake. But the venture funded start-up, which was formed by a couple of ex-Facebook execs, also is filled with plenty of crowdsourced expertise about work-related topics for IT pros, such as <a href="http://www.quora.com/Will-Cisco-buy-out-EMC">whether Cisco will buy EMC</a>,  <a href="http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-enterprise-applications-will-the-iPad-be-good-for?q=ipad+enterprise">how the iPad might be used at work</a> and <a href="http://www.quora.com/Ubuntu/How-can-Ubuntu-be-improved">how to improve Ubuntu.</a>

• Royal Wedding: Will & Kate & YouTube

  If you really can't wait for a recorded version of the <a href="http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/mediacentre/pressreleases/the_wedding_of_hrh_prince_william_of_wales_and_miss_catherin_1538848844.html">Royal Wedding</a> come April 29, Google's YouTube unit has announced that the Royal Family will provide a live video stream of the big day's events.