Facebook Fatigue
Social networks follow the good old Bell Curve in popularity. Small & Cool, followed by Big & Powerful, but quickly tapering out into Old & Over It.
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Made by Many’s London Digital Event Calendar
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New Google News is More Personal and Spontaneous
Google News today announced it is rolling out a new layout with new features designed to bring readers a more personalized, local and social news experience. While still highlighting top stories and adding a list of trending topics similar to Twitter's, Google is now giving …

Iain Banks's new novel has an iPhone app – the end 4 serious book culture or a leap forward 4 literature?
an iPhone app is to accompany the paperback release of Iain Banks's book Transition – space opera riffs in a contemporary context – on 1 July.
The application's authors claim it is the first app to go "beyond the story", offering exclusive extra content in the manner of a DVD.
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Beautiful Museum of London app uses the past to show us the future
Brothers & Sisters’ You Are Here …

Clay Shirky looks at “cognitive surplus” — the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we’re busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we’re building a better, more cooperative world.

http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html
Clay Shirky believes that new technologies enabling loose collaboration — and taking advantage of “spare” brainpower — will change the way society works. He talks a lot about the difference between doing anything and doing nothing. Social science is looking at how much value is derived from our intrinsic motivations to create and share, …

Ever wondered how Google works?

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Explaining Facebook's Spam Prevention Systems
As a global service connecting 400 million people, Facebook has helped build and extend communities around the world. As with any community, the benefits of bringing people together are occasionally accompanied by inappropriate or unacceptable conduct by a small number of people. This behavior ranges from thoughtless to criminal and can degrade the experience for others or undermine the community itself.
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LinkedIn: It's who you know (article from The Independent)
LinkedIn, the Facebook for professionals, may look dull, but it means business. And its success proves …

Whole Foods to Feature Foursquare Window Clings
On Friday Foursquare sent out thousands of window decals — otherwise known as Foursquare Clings — to business owners. The clings — designed to stick to window storefronts to remind patrons to check in on Foursquare — are now arriving at stores everywhere, even big businesses like Whole Foods.
The grocery chain retailer has agreed to place the Foursquare clings in 30 of its stores’ windows, a gesture that serves as an important handshake with the location-sharing startup. Whole Foods is set to receive and …

Inclusive Planet is a social networking site for the visually impaired. The online platform, started last year by three former students of the National Law School of India, attempts to bring together technologists, designers, disability experts and other such folk to throw their might against problems such as the lack of accessible content and non-inclusivity of modern technologies.
Describing itself as ‘a social venture with a very simple yet powerful agenda – to engage smart minds across the world to create scalable technology-led solutions to challenges faced by people with disabilities’, …

"Google will be one node on a vast social web" : Chris Messina, open web advocate at Google
When Chris Messina joined Google in January, just as he turned 29, many were surprised. Why would a guy who'd been so successful in pushing forward the concept of an open and social web give up his independent voice and work for "The Man", as he himself put it?
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Peter Andre: Facebook Is ‘Dangerous’ (says the man who though Jordan was 'a catch')
Peter Andre thinks opening an account on Facebook is “the …

links for 2010-06-25
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Study: 43% of Online Americans Addicted to Social Networking
66% of online Americans use social networking sites today, up from just 20% in 2007. This has been covered a lot before. However, what's notable is that it's an increasingly additive activity – 43% visit multiple times each day.
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Study Finds Women, Young Adults Choose Email over Facebook in Search of On-Going Deals
Women are more likely than men to subscribe to email marketing messages, and more than half of online teens are turning to the channel in search …