Social Media

Google + has 90 million users

The official numbers are in for Google’s new social network, Google+. Beating out most previous third-party estimates that we’ve seen, the company said today that it now has 90 million users worldwide. Presumably this means monthly uniques visitors given that the earnings release says “now,” but we’ll try to get more clarification around engagement numbers when we get [...]

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The Man Who Got Us to ‘Like’ Everything

Shaun Fenn for The Wall Street JournalSoleio Cuervo in Palo Alto, Calif. We used to “heart” things online, or give them five stars. Today, thanks to Soleio Cuervo, we “Like” them. A product designer for Facebook Inc. since 2005, Mr. Cuervo is part of the team that introduced the thumbs-up Like button to the site. [...]

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Social Networking for Smokers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/technology/11smoke.html?_r=3&ref=technology Companies have started adding the ability to communicate wirelessly to an increasing range of devices, like tablet computers, cars and refrigerators. Now they are doing it with cigarettes. Blu, the maker of electronic cigarettes that release a nicotine-laden vapor instead of smoke, has developed packs of e-cigarettes with sensors that will let users know [...]

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Facebook tipster leads to Bank Robber arrest

http://www.wtsp.com/news/watercooler/article/188133/58/Police-Robbers-outfit-same-as-in-Facebook DETROIT — The FBI says a man charged with robbing five Detroit-area banks was caught after investigators matched him to photos on Facebook. Anthony Wilson was indicted Tuesday, two months after his arrest on a criminal complaint. He’s accused of stealing $6,300 during five bank robberies from October through January. FBI agent Juan Herrera [...]

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Desktop Social ping application

http://seesmic.com/products/desktop Say hello to your “go-to” desktop application. With Seesmic Desktop, over 50 of your favorite services are finally within reach. So go ahead, pick your services. Pick Your Services Managing only the services that matter to you has never been so easy. Seesmic Desktop offers a unique plugin architecture that allows you to select [...]

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Facebook Deleting posts automatically?

Warning to Facebook users – users are reporting that FB is automatically deleting posts of all types within seconds of them being posted.  reported by one of Vector’s Agents on FB: http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=178480998865545&id=100001109383768&notif_t=feed_comment Eran Molyneux please stop deleting my posts USER INFO REMOVED I know. Been happening for day’s

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Wikileaks admits to global encrypted social network

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/21/sweden.wikileaks.charge/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1 “In my role as Wikileaks editor, I’ve been involved in fighting off many legal attacks,” Assange said in an e-mail to the BBC earlier this year. “To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws [...]

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Social constructionism

Social constructionism and social constructivism are sociological theories of knowledge that consider how social phenomena develop in social contexts. Within constructionist thought, a social construction (social construct) is a concept or practice that is the construct (or artifact) of a particular group. When we say that something is socially constructed, we are focusing on its dependence on contingent variables of [...]

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