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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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The online Facebook group that opposes the company's actions of deleting all photos of breast-feeding moms from users' albums and photo streams has recently gone beyond the 70,000 members limit. They started over 1,500 discussion threads on the matter, expressing their support for women who decided to post ... |
30 December 2008
08:28 GMT |
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Advertising on-line, outside their corporate websites, is a technique that even the largest of corporations are beginning to look at seriously, a quick peek over the social media shows us. From computer manufacturers to pharmaceutical firms, everyone is starting to expand in this area, as it becomes clearer to manage... |
17 December 2008
07:37 GMT |
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London-based social website Bragster has just announced the fact that it has closed a $3.5 million first round of venture capital financing, led by Intel Capital. The site is known for "dares and social bets," and can be portrayed as a social site that challenges its users to perform extreme actions, as shown in the ... |
14 February 2008
06:29 GMT |
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