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Yesterday I began doing some research to determine if there was a shift taking place among top Twitter users and Facebook users given the new Facebook design. I was trying to determine the most effective barometer of user influence across both sites and the only thing I could come up with was a comparison of the top users (Read More)
: @robdiana what do you think? - there are some interesting points here, 10m users and some serious reach for its size with Twitter but the 200m gorilla is still Facebook.
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OpenDemocracy, via Flickr (CC license) What might this Malian girl and I have in common, and what might we learn from each other? How could we know if we can’t really connect? This morning I listened to an excellent Radio Open Source interview. Host Christopher Lydon was talking to Global Voices Online founder Ethan Z (Read More)
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Men tend to be more transactional and less relationship building when it comes to their friends on social networks. Women tend to have slightly more friends on average. (Read More)
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You don’t hear much about the state of the internet in Africa, so we here at Pingdom decided to find out how Africa’s internet is doing. We looked at data traffic and internet penetration (how many in the population have internet access), and came up with some very interesting numbers. (Read More)
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LinkedIn (SAI 25 #8) may have been trampled by the likes of Facebook (SAI 25 #1) and MySpace in terms of users, but at least it can sell advertising. Kevin Eyres, LinkedIn's managing director for Europe, told IDG the social network for careerists is earning $75 CPMs (cost paid per thousand viewers) for advertising in the US (Read More)
: Perhaps LinkedIn is a focussed company for pure business niche. However, any such comparison with a general social networking portal is not justified and thus, may not be compared apple-to-apple. May be LinkedIn can fish into HR outsourcing later, I bet they will do much better.
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Some interesting UK stories in the last 24 hours:--—Times Online Looks To Leverage US Audience With WSJ Cross-Selling Ad Opps -- Friends Reunited Drops Subs For Ad-Funded Model; Emphasis Now On Socialising Online -- LinkedIn Playing Catch Up In Europe -- WPP To Relocate To Lower Tax Bill -- Coldplay One-Upping Radio (Read More)
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Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called "drops."The service has no email signup and no "accounts." Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of media, and share or subscribe as you want. To make a drop just click the bi (Read More)
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In the classroom, I might set up a Twitter account for just my students and their parents. We can all update our little community about what we're up to in class. I also think it would be interesting to track brainstorms -- students immediately post a thought on Twitter as it enters their head, regardless of whether that id (Read More)
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But Coldplay, unlike Radiohead or NIN, have a string of huge radio hits and more than 30 million album sales to date, and demand for “Violet Hill” has caused Coldplay.com to crash intermittently. (Read More)
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Fortunately, Rafa wasn’t malicious, just a naïve young man looking for love. My team likes to call the caper, “When Rafa met Bonnie.” We do hope Rafa meets the girl of his dreams. But we hope that next time he’ll use his own computer. (Read More)
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The Telegraph Developers Weekend is underway here in Victoria. I'll be blogging the event throughout the day. Paul Cheesbrough, our chief technology officer, is introducing the event at the moment and there are talks from Adobe, Apple, Digg and Google to come. (Read More)
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StartUp2.0 is a competition of European web 2.0 sites whose objectives are to promote and reward the European startups (either created or willing to do so in the future) that work in the field of 2.0 technologies.
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