Tag: Facebook

  • Knode attempts to compete with LinkedIn in biotech networking

    Knode: The Next Stage of the Internet is About What You Know Alex E. Weaver, bostinno.com Pre­dict­ing what’s “next” for the Inter­net can be a lot like surf­ing the web itself: daunt­ing, frus­trat­ing and often point­less. There’s a lot of infor­ma­tion swirling around out there, after all, and peo­ple are inter­act­ing with it in… http://flpbd.it/rXXmp…

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  • Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

    Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This… tumblr.com Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing: This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which… http://flpbd.it/CjoBc Related articles Tom Wolfe’s…

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  • Measuring debate performance on Twitter

    Measuring debate performance on Twitter – POLITICO.com Related articles Things Get Rough on Twitter Over Gun Debate (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) Social Media Strategy for Small Business 2013: A Totally Honest Look at Social Networks (amsterdamprinting.com) Shocking NASCAR Crash Video Raises A Serious Debate (businessinsider.com) Infographic: 2012 Service Desk Industry Round-Up (sunrisesoftware.co.uk) oLyfe Reveals Social Media Sentiment around…

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  • 7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs

    7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs | Inc.com Related articles Afghan president orders US forces out of key province – NBCNews.com (worldnews.nbcnews.com) Cuban leader Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 – Reuters (reuters.com)

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  • Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

    Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online Related articles Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com) Facebook cracking down on fake ‘Likes’ (cnn.com) Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts (techcrunch.com) Facebook deleting…

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  • Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk

    Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Stu­dio d’Xavier) Try­ing to think of any rea­son pay­ing more at the pump is a good thing would stump the aver­age con­sumer (thin­ner wal­lets after pay­ing with cash?), but one and pos­si­bly the only good side…

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  • Google+ Goes Looking For Love

    Google+ Goes Looking For Love By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra. An inter­view with Google’s senior vice pres­i­dent for engi­neer­ing, Vic Gun­do­tra, about… http://flpbd.it/oOkme Related articles Nexus phones to feature ‘insanely great cameras’ says…

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  • Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products?

    Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products? Only Facebook Knows Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com An ambi­tious Face­book data-collection effort is turn­ing up unlike­ly pat­terns in mem­bers’ inter­ests. Here’s what that means for online mar­keters – and you. Ian Lurie, founder and CEO of Inter­net mar­ket­ing agency Por­tent, is look­ing f… http://flpbd.it/0JbI2

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  • Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

    Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? Stephen Marche, theatlantic.com Yvette Vick­ers, a for­mer Play­boy play­mate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exact­ly how old she was when she died. Accord­ing to the Los… http://flpbd.it/kxQ26 Related articles STUDY: Can…

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  • Top 20 TED Talks That Can Improve Your Life

    Mike Vardy, lifehack.org TED.com recent­ly released their list of the 20 most-watched TED talks to date, and while they have quite a few of the ones list­ed that can serve to improve your life, there are sev­er­al out there that are on the list at deserve some… http://flpbd.it/hr70D Top 20 TED Talks That Can Improve…

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