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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)
Silicon Alley Insider
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)