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Conference Humiliation: They're Tweeting Behind Your Back
"But the same technology can also enable a "virtual lynching." That's the phrase one twitster used to describe what happened at last month's HighEdWeb Association conference, an event that has gone down in social-media history as perhaps the most brutal abuse of the back channel yet."
Twitter Lists will change the social dynamic
Twitter lists are absolutely going to change the way people use Twitter – exactly how is not really clear yet, it may take a little while before the dust settles on this one. Lists have added a new social element to Twitter, which did not exist up until now. Lists will either be the great equalizer, or create a pseudo ‘class’ system within Twitter.
Is Online Privacy a Generational Issue?
"both teens and adults actively manage their information online -- 60% of adults and 66% of teens restrict access to information in their profile."
Time Spent on Social Networks Has Tripled
"According to a new report from The Nielsen Company, Americans spent 17% of all their Internet time using social networking sites. This was nearly triple the time spent a year ago."
How the maze of social websites reveals our selves online
More interesting than the people who become instant celebrities are the people who become famous in a particular niche or within their own social networks. When you are able to rise to a level of prominence but just among the people you know.
Are computers transforming humanity?
Now you can sit in any airport and hear all the grisly details about a divorce or something like that. I don't know if the convenience overrides privacy or people don't care about the other people around them, but certainly what we let hang out there has changed.
Blogging is dying and Twitter is to blame
Amidst the Twitterfication of our lives, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend developing. Blogs are starting to fade into oblivion. OK, maybe it’s not *that* bad, but it’s a fade nonetheless.
Web camera's are good, mmmmkay?
It's so much nicer to be able to see and hear the people leaving you comments or messages and not just read their thoughts in plain, boring, black and white text. So how 'bout it? Use your webcam!
Getting a Twitter Newbie off on the Right Foot
The biggest mistake we make when getting someone started on Twitter is we don’t take each step! For some reason we introduce a new person and ask our PLN to welcome them before they have completed their profile.
On Twitter, Most People Are Sheep: 80 Percent Of Accounts Have Fewer Than 10 Followers
A full 80 percent of Twitter accounts have fewer than 10 followers, according to an analysis of seven million Twitter accounts provided to TechCrunch by Web security firm Purewire (which operates TweetGrade). What’s more, 30 percent have zero followers.
The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide
The generation gap at work is really wide with vast discrepancies when it comes to what the appropriate use of technology is - a problem that leads to increasing tensions in the workplace.
Top 10 List of People to Unfollow on Twitter
I must give credit to Ike Pigott (@ikepigott) for the idea of a "Top 10 People to Unfollow" list. Although I can easily think of several individuals I’d like to place on this list, I figured it would be too mean to actually call them out by name (and possibly result in a libel suit). So the list below contains ten archetypes that I’ve noticed on Twitter. I’m sure there are many others, so feel free to add your own in the comments section.
What Are You Putting In?
You get out of Twitter what you put into Twitter. When you come to Twitter, come prepared to share something. It doesn’t have to be earth-shattering information. Just something, anything, that someone, somewhere, might want to see. Here’s a novel approach to getting started with Twitter: expect nothing in return.
Is There a Reverse Network Effect with Scale?
But just as Moore's Law hits physical constraints, network effects have a limit in many types of online communities. Indeed, in some cases, a reverse network effect may exist: as new people join, others are motivated to leave.
Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots
Hardware hackers have set up household appliances to send status alerts over Twitter, like a washing machine that tweets when the spin cycle is through, or a home security system that tweets whenever it senses movement inside the house. Others have incorporated Twitter into their DIY home automation systems. Forgot to turn off the lights? Send a tweet to flip the switch by remote control.
On Being Alone
As one of the people in the video says, “if you aren’t connected people think you are negligent” and that bothers me, but it is a reality.
Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
Based on eye-tracking studies, we know that people tend to scan the search results in order. They start from the first result and continue down the list until they find a result they consider helpful and click it — or until they decide to refine their query.
Study shows that virtual worlds can influence real-world decisions
A group of scientists at Cambridge University has conducted a study that shows that associations in videogames transfer directly to the real world.
Report: Millennials Will Route Around IT Departments
One of the most interesting results of this study is that this difference between expectations and reality has led over a quarter of the employees surveyed by Accenture to use technology that is unsupported and unsanctioned by their corporate IT departments. Almost half of all Millennials who use social networks, blogs, vlogs, or Twitter do so without support from their IT departments (and often against the IT policies of their companies). Millennials also see no problem with using unsupported mobile phones or instant messaging services at work.
Sharism: A Mind Revolution
Sharism is encoded in the Human Genome. Although eclipsed by the many pragmatisms of daily life, the theory of Sharism finds basis in neuroscience and its study of the working model of the human brain.
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