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Social media has gotten people in trouble more than once, sometimes even in serious trouble with the law. Every time it had something to do with the way they used social media, like revealing incriminatory information. Now a new barrier has been broken, someone got arrested for not using social media. James Roppo, a... |
23 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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YouTube can't talk money just yet, but it can talk about size and there's plenty to boast about that. The site is the biggest online avenue for video and enjoys a huge lead over any other video site. It can put forward impressive numbers like one billion views per day, but now it's sharing some stats ... |
12 November 2009
06:04 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study conducted in the United Kingdom, slightly less than half of Primary 7 students (aged ten to 11) have social-media accounts, on sites such as Bebo, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or Hi5. Approximately 48 percent of the 3,657 children that were analyzed, as part of the Kids’ Life a... |
28 October 2009
07:40 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently published a new paper arguing that monitoring the activity that teens and children have on social-networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, could lead to a decrease in the number of suicides in this age group. Victoria University School of Information Management Professor Dr. ... |
14 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Social bookmarking hasn't exactly developed into the promise it once held but it's still somewhat popular with at least part of the users. StumbleUpon is one of the services that seemed to have a lot of potential but never really took off so it's understandable that it has been looking to reinvent itse... |
9 October 2009
04:21 GMT |
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The way we use the Internet and relate to web content is constantly changing and so is the way we find new information online. Search engines used to be the center of information discovery but there has been a great shift in recent years towards social media which, while still relatively small as a percentage of the ... |
6 October 2009
05:19 GMT |
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With social media becoming an increasingly important way for users to communicate and collaborate online, many believed that email, the aging communication service that has been around as long as the Internet, would finally see a decrease in use. In fact, that is exactly what the researchers at Nielsen set out to pro... |
29 September 2009
10:54 GMT |
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Scribd, the document sharing service, has become a very popular site, with traffic numbers to back it, but, as per usual on the Internet, traffic doesn't necessarily translate into revenue. The biggest problem for the site is user retention, with visitors coming to the site, usually from a search, viewing or dow... |
10 August 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Google is trying to become more social with an increasing number of its services embracing “socially aware” features. The latest to join the social party is iGoogle, which just launched several gadgets, only in Australia for now, allowing users to collaborate, share content and even play games with their ... |
6 August 2009
09:33 GMT |
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The Archbishop of Westminster said recently in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that the amount of texting and e-mailing that children, teens and adults alike engaged in was “dehumanizing” and dangerous for the society. He argued that constructing friendship relationships exclusively aroun... |
3 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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A lot of brands are getting their feet wet, starting to use social media for campaigns and getting in touch with their customers, some more bold than others. A new study from enterprise wiki provider Wetpaint partnering with Altimeter Group set out to find what are the most popular brands on the Internet throughout s... |
21 July 2009
09:29 GMT |
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A new study by BabyCenter LLC, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, shows that moms are increasingly active in the social media environments and the use of these types of tools are up 462 percent in the past three years. Mobile Internet usage for the same group has also risen 348 percent since 2006. The report, called "Meet ... |
1 July 2009
11:57 GMT |
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Social music service imeem has announced that it will remove all user-generated videos and photos from the site on June 30, in an effort to simplify it. The website says that the features weren't very popular and it didn't make financial sense to keep them. “We’re making these changes as part ... |
27 June 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Secondbrain, a social media tool that merges online bookmarking and sharing with other social networking features, is getting a reboot and a makeover. After even its creators admitted that the system was far from perfect they are ready to give it another try. “Online bookmarking should be easy, and we were no... |
16 June 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Songkick, a concert listing and recommendation site, similar in name and purpose to the recently launched Livekick, is trying to stay ahead in the crowded market and also diversify its offerings by adding a full concert history database along with a bunch of new features relating to it. The site actually intends to h... |
9 June 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Livekick, a new concert recommendation and ticket search engine, has been made available to anyone after being in private beta for several months. The site is aimed at helping users discover concerts near their residence and also finding the best price for tickets at those concerts. Currently the search engine stores... |
9 June 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Wordnik is a new recently launched online dictionary that comes with a host of new features that none of the other similar websites, of which there are quite a few, have implemented. It takes a much more social and wiki-like approach by letting users add their own words and by having a lot of information on top of ju... |
9 June 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Social networking looks like the way to go for companies trying to promote their brands and products. In fact, the general conception is becoming that if you aren't on Twitter and if you aren't on Facebook you don't exist, especially for the younger crowds. But a new study shows surprising results. Onl... |
3 June 2009
09:48 GMT |
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There are a lot of people using Twitter, there's no doubt, with over 30 million users today, and the service is beginning to be used by many companies for different purposes. But what are the most popular ones, since it's a very new environment so many are experimenting and finding out what works and what d... |
28 May 2009
06:25 GMT |
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The wonders of social media never seize to amaze even the most skeptical of us. In a recent example, a man was helped in delivering a baby into this world by an instructional video posted online, on famous video-sharing site YouTube. A UK engineer, from Redruth, Cornwall, brought his infant son into the world on his ... |
4 May 2009
09:04 GMT |
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The social media website Twitter has, over its years of existence, gathered a huge following, and, more recently, a number of celebrities including politicians, TV presenters and music/movie stars as well. What originally started as a project built in two weeks, and then released to the public just to “see if t... |
27 April 2009
11:12 GMT |
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Social networking sites usually facilitate connections between people, but they can cause real trouble at times, as Victoria Ayling's parents can attest to. The 14-year-old girl from Chelmsford, Essex, in the UK, has been missing since Sunday, and authorities believe she may have eloped with 19-year-old online b... |
23 April 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Researchers from the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California claim that fast interactions, which now characterize social media, are undermining a number of human higher emotions, including moral values and compassion. They say that these feelings take time to evolve, and that the... |
14 April 2009
10:12 GMT |
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While the connection between using social media and having low grades in school or college has not yet been directly made, researchers conducting a new survey on social media could not help but notice that students who spent most spare time on Facebook tended to have the lowest grades of all those who were studied. T... |
14 April 2009
08:47 GMT |
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Universities and higher learning centers are falling behind in the race for information, a University of Illinois expert cautions. Michael A. Peters, a professor of educational policy studies at the university's College of Education, says that, in today's hyper-connected world, universities and similar inst... |
10 April 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Partially encouraged by the seemingly inevitable fall of newspapers to the advantage of the Internet- and TV-dominated news scenes, a collaboration between the University of Minnesota, the NewsCloud news aggregator and The Minnesota Daily student newspaper currently seeks to discover new ways to get people involved ... |
31 March 2009
06:51 GMT |
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A new dedicated survey has learned that in the United Kingdom more people aged 15 to 24 watch music videos on the dedicated Internet sharing website YouTube than they do on top-rated music channels on TV. The study refers directly to the competition between the site and MTV, a television channel that has been the mos... |
28 March 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Facebook has just recently introduced major layout changes to its service, the company may now find itself in a position of having to undo them, on account of the massive negative backlash it has gotten from its users. Approximately one million people said that the changes were not inspired, and... |
25 March 2009
11:24 GMT |
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Researchers in the fields of psychology and behavioral studies are currently fascinated by the attraction that popular social media exerts on each individual, and are very surprised at the fact that it's not us who influence others, but others who make their point of view more clear than we do. So, in light of t... |
23 March 2009
10:26 GMT |
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Despite being the leading such structure in the world, the American space agency currently finds itself in a very awkward position, mostly because 80 percent of its workforce is comprised of people who are over the age of 40. And while this is normal, up to a certain point, because older individuals have accumulated ... |
17 March 2009
04:37 GMT |
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With increasing numbers of people connecting to social media networks, a new phenomenon is rising, and that is the “online death.” That is to say, when individuals who play online games or are involved in communities such as Flickr, MySpace, Facebook and the likes die in real life, their accounts remain h... |
16 March 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Leading journalism experts are currently trying to alienate fears that professional coverage of significant events is about to disappear. Many people fear that the downfall of newspapers, caused by both a massive surge in Internet user numbers and the current economic crisis, will mean a complete re-shifting in the ... |
15 March 2009
06:17 GMT |
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For a long time, IT and entertainment companies have pondered the best possibility to bring the universe of digital media into the average living room, but the costs associated with turning someone's house into a digital outlet have been usually too prohibitive. Now, low-cost solutions may have been devised, as ... |
12 March 2009
11:26 GMT |
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In the mid-90s, when the Internet was just starting to “suck in” many of the world's children, scientists were panicked, and the conclusions of their studies on the effect of the Internet followed suit. They interpreted the Web as a dark and cruel place, where numerous dangers stalked the kids and te... |
4 March 2009
08:52 GMT |
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Over the past few months, social media websites such as Facebook and MySpace have come to be under constant attack from people who spread malicious software and other tricksters. Their goal is to collect the large amount of personal data that is being circulated on these sites, and to exploit it to their own personal... |
3 March 2009
08:55 GMT |
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On the halls of the Congress, in Washington DC, many a politicians are currently spending their spare time writing various messages on the social website Twitter, with thousands of people following their every word. Some say that this is an excellent method of communicating with individuals in their states, without h... |
2 March 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Facebook seems to be trying out a new way of elaborating the internal policies for one of the most popular web sites on the Internet – user input. In other words, the company says, the users will play a “meaningful role” in deciding how things will run in the community, which currently houses about ... |
27 February 2009
06:06 GMT |
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A group of British museums is currently working around the clock to create a common website, on which officials, curators and museum lovers can meet and discuss various aspects of the trade, while at the same time virtually visiting some of the collections. Thus far, the group includes the British Museum and Victoria... |
23 February 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Yesterday morning, Paul Zolezzi, an aspiring male model, committed suicide in the Brooklyn Park in New York, after leaving a suicide note on Facebook, the latest event in a growing trend of announcing one's death via social network websites. The 30-year-old was found hanging on the monkey bars of a playground, i... |
21 February 2009
05:07 GMT |
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For all those of you who get warnings about the amount of time you spend at work browsing on sites such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace, there may yet be hope. Some innovative guys have invented the KeepMeOut website, a pretty useful tool if you want to avoid unpleasant situations with your bosses in the future. App... |
19 February 2009
04:34 GMT |
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The online safety of children worldwide is in question due to an ever-increasing number of attacks from various suspicious individuals, as well as from peers who have a larger inclination towards technology. On that background, 17 companies owning social media websites got together in Europe and signed on Tuesday an ... |
10 February 2009
11:03 GMT |
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A new trend is currently making its way through the various groups and communities that make up the world of Facebook, and they are the lists. Not just any type of lists, but the “25 Random Things”-kind, which basically give users the possibility to fill them out with 25 things they assume people in their... |
10 February 2009
08:55 GMT |
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Facebook is known worldwide for facilitating communication among friends, and for making it easier for people looking to expand their social networks to do so. But Neil Brady, a 39-year-old IT consultant, has apparently managed to find another use for it. His wife found out from the site that her husband had left her... |
6 February 2009
06:26 GMT |
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President Barack Obama's Inauguration ceremony was thus far the largest news event broadcast via video feeds by all the top sites on the web, and was watched by tens of millions worldwide. A partial reason for this was the fact that the midday ceremony couldn't be watched by many people, because they were a... |
21 January 2009
08:46 GMT |
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Although social media sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, are increasingly popular among Internet users of all ages, a new study shows that the two platforms are still dominated by teens and youngsters, and that, most likely, this trend will continue for the next years. There is also a big difference between the rea... |
15 January 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Protecting children from inappropriate web contacts is one of the modern-day concerns that each couple has to deal with. There are plenty of solutions to do so, ranging from parental control on various sites to advanced filters in antivirus programs. But a new panel study shows that there are no foolproof methods of ... |
14 January 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano were two of the most powerful heads of the Italian Cosa Nostra, the name under which the Mafia was invented all those decades ago. They were jailed last month, and already Facebook started producing groups that glorified the two and demanded their release, or even their sanctificati... |
13 January 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Popular social media website MySpace announced in the eve of the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), to open on Thursday in Las Vegas, that it would make its services available for TV sets as well, via widgets on the Widgets Channel. Company spokesmen said that the move would make it easier for millions of users ... |
8 January 2009
09:37 GMT |
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According to the Internet monitoring company Hitwise, which keeps track of some one million websites, Facebook registered the second number of hits of all online visitors this holiday season, second only to the search engine Google. On Christmas Eve, the website accounted for 1 in 22 Internet accesses, which makes it... |
7 January 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Over the past few years, social media, comprising websites where people can create a profile and share pictures, video clips and personal information – including MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and the likes – has really taken off worldwide, with millions of people logging in to their accounts on a da... |
6 January 2009
02:27 GMT |
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