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On March 1, the French government regulated that Internet companies must keep their users’ data for a year, and make them available to the authorities when subpoenaed. These data include anything used to identify a user and allow her to use a web service, i.e., ID, password, name, email addresses, as well as postal address and [...] [...]
Continue reading France’s double standards on privacy
April 1st, 2011 | Tags: social network | Category: social network
After Google +1, seen as a response to Facebook’s “like” button, LinkedIn’s recommendation system received a major upgrade that was unveiled this morning. Check this out! [...]
Continue reading LinkedIn’s “People You May Know” gets bolder
March 30th, 2011 | Tags: Google, social network | Category: social network
This morning Google introduced the so-called +1 button. It is Google’s attempt to create its own social annotation so that it can improve on search, recommendation, and targeted advertising. For now, the +1 button is put right next to each search result. When you click the button, you tell that you like this specific result [...] [...]
Continue reading Is Google +1 button the answer to Facebook’s like?
October 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Twitter | Category: social network
August 5th, 2010 | Tags: Google, social network | Category: social network
Yesterday Google pulled the plug on Google Wave, announcing that it will no longer continue developing Wave as a standalone product, and that it will just maintain the service until the end of the year. This is a somewhat humiliating for Google. Launched in May 2009 to much hoopla, Google Wave was supposed to revolutionize [...] [...]
Continue reading So Long Google Wave
July 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Twitter | Category: social network
What’s the mood in the US? To answer the question, researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard College fed about 300 million tweets to a system based on ANEW [...] Continue reading Twitter Maps America’s Mood in Real Time [...]
Continue reading Twitter Maps America’s Mood in Real Time
Apparently email is dead. That is what Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg claimed at the Nielsen Consumer 360 conference last week and what we wrote a brief report about earlier this week. Continue reading Why Facebook wants you to believe that “email is dead” [...]
Continue reading Why Facebook wants you to believe that “email is dead”
February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Google, social network, Twitter | Category: social network
Buzz was introduced by Google with much clamor. Since then, we have seen a lot of debate around it: Google stepping into the social media arena cannot go unnoticed. Many quickly saw Buzz as a Twitter killer [...] Continue reading So will Buzz and Facebook finally bury Twitter? [...]
Continue reading So will Buzz and Facebook finally bury Twitter?
January 19th, 2010 | Tags: apps, Twitter | Category: social network
5NX9DCF979QD According to the official weather service, the UK has just suffered through its longest spell of freezing conditions since December 1981. The recent winter storms across the whole of the UK wreaked havoc with public transport and generally disrupted the lives of millions of UK residents. Soon hundreds of thousands of UK residents turned [...] [...]
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January 12th, 2010 | Tags: apps, mobile, social network, Twitter | Category: social network
Compete and Quantcast have now released their latest data about the traffic on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for December. According to Compete’s report, twitter.com’s US traffic reached 22.81 million unique visitors [...] Continue reading Is Twitter flattening? A short answer [...]
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