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Decentralized moderation is the chat room savior « Scobleizer: Technology, innovation, and geek enthusiasm
Why gets to what friendfeed has done that’s its most brilliant invention and one that very few people understand. It’s so good I wonder why they haven’t patented it.
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apophenia: "Living and Learning with Social Media"
Many American youth are embracing a wide array of social media as part of their everyday lives. From social network sites and texting to blogs and wikis, many youth are leveraging the power of social media to create, communicate, share, and learn. In this talk, I will use social network sites as a case study to examine critical shifts that are underway as a result of social media. I look at how inequality is perpetuated through these systems and the challenges that educators face when trying to incorporate these systems into the classroom. Finally, I conclude by discussing implications for educators.
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Why Content and Social Media are a Powerful Match — Copyblogger
Creating stellar content for your marketing is great. But great content doesn’t (quite) distribute itself. It needs vehicles for people to pass it along, discuss its merits, argue over its controversies, blog it, mash it, tweet it and even scrape it. Which is, of course, where social media comes in.
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Tracking Twitter Links: Twitter Analytics Tools & More | Get Elastic
I’m noticing more and more retailers on Twitter these days, and I expect this trend to continue through 2009. So I thought I would share some tips and tools for ecommerce Twitter marketers.
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How Habitat UK *should* have used Twitter
or - how should you really used twitter for marketing purposes
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31 Useful Twitter Plugins For Wordpress To Choose From | 1stwebdesigner - Love In Design
I chose to take research and create comprehensive list with Twitter related Wordpress plugins and tools that will help you unite Twitter with your blog.
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17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners and Businesses
Like title said. Quite useful information
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Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data | blprnt.blg
Nice geo-visualization of tweets containing the words “Just landed in…”.
...Find tweets that contain this phrase, parse out the location they’d just landed in, along with the home location they list on their Twitter profile, and use this to map out travel in the Twittersphere -
YouTube - reporterscenter's Channel
Reporter Center - YouTube project for heloing users learn to report news
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Over a third of Facebook users now 35+, use by seniors at record levels
From Inside Facebook come the following charts looking at the latest demographics for the social network. The over 35s in the US now account for 36% of all users with over 45s making up 17%. Meanwhile usage levels by the over 55s has reached "all time highs", in particular women 55+, who now number 2.5 million users.
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February Roundup: Social Networking Sites For Kids | Social Media Mom
Social networking is definitely not limited to adults. As you can see, there is a wide variety of sites that are geared towards our youth and while the idea is to get kids participation by playing games, it is already setting the foundation for the next generation of social media users.
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Do we Really Need All Those Anti-Piracy Measures?
And while we debate what’s fair and what’s not, fighting windmills and slowly losing the battle for our online privacy, piracy – the root of all evil, as some would have us believe – might be disappearing before our very eyes.
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5 NEW Twitter Games to Make Tweeting Fun
With that, we present 5 new Twitter games to make tweeting even more fun:
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Teens Not Into Twitter, TV, Radio, or Newspapers, Reports Young Morgan Stanley Intern
Matthew Robson, a 15-year-old intern at analyst firm Morgan Stanley recently helped compile a report about teenage media habits. Overnight, his findings have become a sensation...which goes to show that people are either obsessed with what "the kids" are into or there's a distinctive lack of research being done on this demographics' media use. Robson's report isn't even based on any sort of statistical analysis, just good ol' fashioned teenage honesty.
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Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”
On Tuesday evening more than 300 confidential Twitter documents and screenshots landed in our inbox. We said we were going to post a handful of them only, and we’ve spent much of the last 36 hours talking directly to Twitter about the right way to go about doing that. We’ll have more to say on that process in a couple of days.
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8 of the Best Social Media Extensions for Joomla
Here are eight of the best social media extensions for Joomla!
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Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide
Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they make with businesses on Twitter.
