Your Virtual Shadow: Is social media ruining your life?

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	Darlene Storm: Your Virtual Shadow: Are you so obsessed with social media tech that it's ruining your life? In Our Virtual Shadow, author Damon Brown looks at why we are obsessed with documenting our lives online. Are you so obsessed with new tech toys to record the special moments, or social networking apps to tweet, +1, "like," repin, check-in, Yelp or otherwise over-document your virtual life on social networks, that it's ruining your real life? Here's a review of Our Virtual Shadow and a short interview with Damon Brown. Ultimately, after reading the book, you may ask yourself if you are missing out on living in the special moments because you were so busy trying to capture and share it on social media. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Innovation Awards Now Accepting Submissions - VMware Innovation Awards Winners will be selected by a prestigious panel of judges and honored at VMworld on August 27th in San Francisco. VMware Innovation Awards Winner will receive: Your story featured in Computerworld, 2 conference passes to VMworld 2013, and more. Submit an entry for this prestigious award and showcase your innovative projects, visit: http://events.computerworld.com/VMwareNominationform2013CW In this Issue Barbara Krasnoff: The LG Optimus G Pro makes its debut in a crowded market Preston Gralla: Who wants Windows RT? No one, says IDC, reporting a dismal 0.4% market share. Sharky: Feel safer now? WHITE PAPER: 10gen How Apollo Group Evaluated MongoDB Apollo Group, best known as the parent company of the University of Phoenix, sought to build a cloud-based learning management platform and needed a new data store to support it. After a thorough evaluation, Apollo Group selected MongoDB for its ease of use, performance, availability, and cost effectiveness. Learn More Barbara Krasnoff: The LG Optimus G Pro makes its debut in a crowded market On first look, the Optimus G Pro looks like a nicely equipped smartphone with a few distinguishing features. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Adopt SDNs without Losing Network Control Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers. Learn more. Preston Gralla: Who wants Windows RT? No one, says IDC, reporting a dismal 0.4% market share. Despite a massive marketing campaign for the Microsoft Surface, RT-based tablets have been a bust, with a measly 0.4% market share. So says the latest report from IDC. How long will Microsoft keep propping up this ill-begotten operating system? Read More Sharky: Feel safer now? Flashback a few years to the days when this jail uses 12-inch black-and-white screens for video monitoring -- and this IT pilot fish is finishing up a support call when he notices something peculiar: a styrofoam cup on a lens. Read More
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