Paul Hurst's List: Info Sys

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  Every    year, better methods are being devised to  quantify     information and distill it into quadrillions  of   atomistic packets of data.  

   

    -Bill Gates  

   

    

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   By  2047   .  . . all information about physical  objects, including   humans, buildings, processes and  organizations, will be online. This is both   desirable and  inevitable. 

   

   -Gordon bell and Jim  gray 

• Social network sites (SNSs) have become some of the most popular online  destinations in recent years (comScore, 2007a, 2007b
• because individuals' goals and activities on SNSs are extremely varied,  investigating their uses through
• Another challenge in studying social network site usage stems from the fact that  large-scale questionnaires (e.g., the Current Population Survey and the General  Social Survey) have mainly focused on adult populations
• Fox, 2004; Madden, 2006
• Lenhart & Madden, 2007

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• Founded four years ago, the site, promoted as a Facebook for the social elite,  has grown from about 500 members to about 150,000 registered users. At a time  when Christina Aguilera has 466,550 MySpace  friends, aSmallWorld has attempted to create an Internet niche by cultivating an  air of exclusivity.
• We’re dealing with a group of people that moves in social migration around the  planet,” said Joe Robinson, the new chief executive