Once you sign up for LinkedIn, the social network monetizes your information, not your time.

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They should be thinking about how to position themselves at the center of the energy information network, supplying the pricing and real-time usage information to the customer and his or her machines.

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Or, at a time when the network is democratizing the spread of information, at least for some people, does Twitter still have an important role to play on the Internet?

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Even the small and mid-sized manufacturing operation is now part of a global network of loosely coupled entities that must collaborate and deliver real-time status information to customers, supply chain partners, organization leaders, and employees.

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Unfortunately, people operate on human time scales and are simply incapable of discovering all of the information about a network that changes from hour to hour and turning that data into changes in the configuration of security devices.

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In an "Immersion Lab" a few floors above the Business Sphere, employees test out working across time zones on wall-size video screens, and projecting business and social network information on man-size "holopanes" of glass.

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Pishevar thinks that now that Gmail has a social-network service like Buzz built in, which adds social, real-time and location-based information to the mix, the service becomes an interesting proposition to gamers and developers.

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