Sic transit gloria mundi. After building a huge audience, Twitter turns to ads to cash in: “In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison...
October 10, 2010
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I always think of things I should have added in the hour after making a post. Sigh. Here goes… The situation is perhaps not so different from mailing lists, Google groups or any number of...
October 7, 2010
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Facebook has rolled out a new version of groups announced on the Facebook blog. “Until now, Facebook has made it easy to share with all of your friends or with everyone, but there hasn’t been...
October 7, 2010
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10:06 AM
The peer review process is central to most research disciplines and is used in the selection of papers for publication and research proposals for funding. A new paper by Stefan Thurner and...
September 19, 2010
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Jose Antonio Vargas profiles Mark Zuckerberg in this week’s New Yorker in The Face of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg opens up. It’s a short piece, but I learned a few facts. One in fourteen people in...
September 13, 2010
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Facebook has rolled out Facebook Browser as what sounds like a simple and effective idea — recommend pages based on on a user’s country and social network. My impression is mixed, however. While...
September 12, 2010
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Full Title: Follow UMBC Ebiquity on Twitter, Facebook and/or your feed reader We are generating short status messages for Ebiquity news and pushing them out to Twitter and Facebook. The messages...
September 7, 2010
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The Economist article Untangling the Social Web describes growing interest in business and government organizations in extracting information and making predictions by collecting and analyzing...
September 4, 2010
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Twitter’s planned shortening of all links via its t.co service is about to happen. The initial motivation was security, according to Twitter: “Twitter’s link service at http://t.co is used to...
September 2, 2010
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Microsoft’s Bing team announced on their blog that that the Bing search engine is “powering Yahoo!’s search results” in the US and Canada for English queries. Yahoo also has a post on their...
August 25, 2010
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