links for 2010-03-15
16 March 2010
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Is Twitter responsible for removing accounts that may offend?
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Couples who can’t talk any more are learning how to reconnect with each other — with help from internet counselling
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Twenty five years ago, on March 15, 1985, the first commercial dot-com domain name – Symbolics.com – was born. It was one of only six dot-com domain names registered that year
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Gumtree have just revamped the Gumtree forums and integrated social media into the site. If you’re not a regular Gumtree user you probably didn’t even know they have a forum, but if you have a Facebook account you can use now use Facebook Connect to sign in.
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Social Objects are the catalysts for conversations and occurrences — online and in real life — and they affect behavior within their respective societies. They are personified by our Tweets, our pictures in Flickr, videos on YouTube, events in Upcoming, profiles and updates in Facebook, the links we share in Delicious, our votes in Digg, the places we check into when playing Foursquare, the documents we publish in Docstoc, a destination or service we review in Yelp, a subject we host in Ning, a thought shared in the comment of a blog post or through a dedicated blog post, etc.
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Meet Google. The noun that became a verb. The world’s favorite search engine, and the company whose motto is “Don’t be evil…”
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Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia, will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can't be trusted. It can, you see, be edited and altered by absolutely anyone at any moment.
But how much less trustworthy is the site for breaking news than the plethora of blogs and other online news sources?
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The latest Pew Internet & American Life Project report, “Understanding the Participatory News Consumer,” examines how Americans are increasingly using their social networks and social networking technology to filter, assess, and react to news.
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Cuts in bulk copies, European distribution and DVD covermounts hit sales
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If you are the type of person who updates their tweets every 10 seconds or cannot be further than three feet away from a screen at any time then your expertise is becoming an increasingly valuable commodity.
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Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet.
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It is hard to remember a time when advances in consumer technology have so much changed the way people interact and learn. The Kindle, the iPhone, YouTube, Skype, Twitter … all have helped transform the way everyone studies, from the humble undergraduate student to the highest ranking executive.
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