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Social media is all the rage right now. It's new and fresh, it sounds trendy and maybe a bit complicated to the average Joe. But everything gets old, even social media hipsters. Luckily for them, being old is still in the future so they can make fun of it.
Because what's more ironic than making fun of soci... |
10 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Scientists demonstrated in a new study that technology- and goal-driven activities and objectives are far harder to quit or turn down than smoking or drinking. Personally, I think this speaks volumes about how the human mind chooses to catalog its priorities.
For instance, University of Chicago professor Wilheml Ho... |
7 February 2012
05:35 GMT |
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University of Cincinnati investigators determined that the messages and images people post on online social networking sites could cost them their prospective jobs. Employers always look over job applicants' online accounts, and what they find there could be grounds for dismissal.
What is even more interesting... |
1 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Grindr, a social networking smartphone application addressed to gay communities, and its straight counterpart Blendr were found to contain some serious vulnerabilities that would allow anyone to take over a user’s profile and modify its content.
The app uses a device’s GPS to locate other individuals and... |
21 January 2012
06:19 GMT |
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The numerous hacking operations that took place in China in the last days of 2011 may have affected around 100 million users and even though some of the websites in question denied their security was breached, the number of victims is much higher than in a normal cyberattack.
Security solutions provider Qihoo 360 re... |
4 January 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Tianya.cn, one of the largest Chinese social networking websites, suffered a data breach as a result of which 40 million users became exposed.
Last week, we witnessed how some major Chinese gaming websites were hacked, millions of their members’ credentials ending up online for anyone to use. At the time we al... |
28 December 2011
03:59 GMT |
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During a recent scientific investigation, a team of researchers in the United States used the social media website Facebook to figure out how people form friendships, and what are the most likely steps they would take to accomplish this.
The research was funded through a grant from the US National Science Foundatio... |
20 December 2011
03:56 GMT |
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French fashion house Chanel won a big battle with counterfeiters after it obtained a court order against hundreds of websites that commercialized fake luxury products.
A Nevada court ruled in favor of Chanel and, besides giving them the power to seize the rogue domains, the judge also ordered search engines and soci... |
30 November 2011
03:46 GMT |
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After the riots that took place earlier this year, law enforcement officials began relying more on Twitter and Facebook not only to make sure their can prevent violent protests, but also to point out false rumors that could cause panic among citizens.
“There has been a massive surge in the number of police off... |
25 November 2011
05:02 GMT |
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A study reveals that while the internet and new technologies represent an important role in the lives of youths, the phenomenon has some negative sides which can have serious consequences if not treated accordingly.
Numbers from Norton's Online Family Report show that 62% of children had at least one negative e... |
18 November 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of East London Cass School of Education determined that social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook have the ability to pick up on signs of an impeding disaster. At the same time, these websites can help correct misinformation.
Unlike traditional news mediums, social m... |
12 October 2011
10:42 GMT |
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A study presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association indicates that people are much more stressed and traumatized by online harassment and cyberbullying than they are when subjected to the same treatment in real-life. Investigators behind the new study say that it makes more sense for ... |
8 August 2011
09:38 GMT |
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A new flavor of Seesmic for Android was recently made available for download via the Android Market, namely version 1.6, with a nice range of enhancements over the previously available variant of the software.As the apps developers note, this is one of the most popular software available for Android devices, and the... |
2 March 2011
14:01 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, researchers argue that the influence computer-mediated social networking has on our daily lives should be analyzed in more detail. They say that this could help us gain a better understanding of how the virtual world is changing the way we live our lives.There is no question among scientist... |
31 January 2011
08:56 GMT |
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The internet is hardly a novelty at this point yet, for something many are now taking for granted, the internet continues to grow at a huge pace in all aspects, from the number of sites to the number of people using it. Website monitoring company Pingdom has gathered some of the most interesting stats of the last yea... |
13 January 2011
05:31 GMT |
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We're going through what some people might call “social media hell” right now, with just about every single person that uses the Internet having at least one social service account and most actually logging-in to multiple such services (after all, if you're not on Facebook, you don't exist)... |
4 November 2010
06:22 GMT |
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A new report from the National IT User Center suggests that having a 'social life' on Facebook can actually pay off.Facebook is a social network that captivated hundreds of million users worldwide but there are a few skeptics left here and there, who believe that all this – the flat comments, superfic... |
18 October 2010
11:08 GMT |
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Activision boss Bobby Kotick has recently talked about his company's new strategy, and revealed that other console-dependent companies like Sony, Microsoft or EA can't even compete with Activision, given its solid online strategy.Kotick revealed that other companies are going to have lots of problems when p... |
22 September 2010
02:32 GMT |
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Yahoo! Inc. today announced the purchase of Koprol, a company aimed at enabling users interact in a manner uniquely tailored to mobile phones. The company is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is expected to expand Yahoo’s social, mobile and local offerings by focusing on some of the most popular trends ... |
25 May 2010
05:29 GMT |
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In a recent investigation on students, researchers determined that most of America's youth that has been exposed to social media tends to become addicted to it. According to the young adults themselves, the catchiest features that sites of this type provide is instant connections with friends and family, as well... |
24 April 2010
04:29 GMT |
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Mobile phone users out there who own a device powered by Google's Android operating system can now enjoy a new application on their handsets, namely HootSuite. The new solution comes in two flavors to Android, namely full-featured and lite versions of the professional Twitter client, enabling users to choose ei... |
3 March 2010
04:58 GMT |
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No brand can exist today without dabbling a little with 'social media', or at least that the popular view. True or not, many brands are now using Twitter, Facebook and company to 'connect' with their customers, most of the times with less stellar results. Every once in a while one of them gets it... |
16 February 2010
10:46 GMT |
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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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