By comScore With the widespread adoption of the Internet around the world came the rise of social networking as a global phenomenon. In March 2007, Social Networking as a category had a global audience of less than 500 million users, representing just 56 percent of the world’s online population. In those days, as Thomas Friedman put it, “‘Twitter’ was a
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In 2011, Facebook launched its video calling services using Skype as its technology partner which allows one to one calling using a Skype Rest API. Now Facebook has chosen Canadian users to beta test a new mobile feature with VOIP (voice over internet protocol) that enables free calls over a wireless network rather than the costly mobile data plans. Facebook’s
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Continuing our map theme. Brandon Martin-Anderson (who works with cartography, multimodal trip planning, and computational urban planning at the MIT Media Lab) developed what he calls the Census Dotmap which is a map of every person counted by the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses. The map has 341,817,095 dots – one for each person. Wow. What a lot of
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Welcome to 2013. I am a little slow off the mark this year, but did want to share this new feature from Google Maps. Think of your maps but in the 8 bit frameset. Backwards compatible with NES as well. OK – it might be a little of a stretch, but I found it amusing. Mashing 2012 with 1982. Zinga.
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You know how at the 30th or 31st of each month you flip the page in your calendar? Well that is what the Mayan calendar is about. The calendar ends today. Turn it over and it starts again. So man up princes and princesses. It aint over and I see no fat lady in sight. by dalefj89. Browse more
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A great holiday related #sadoff from Funny or Die making it’s rounds on social media today. Enjoy. The Sad Off with Samuel L. Jackson and Anne Hathaway from Samuel L Jackson
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service now owned by Facebook, said Tuesday that it will remove language from its new terms of service suggesting that users’ photos could appear in advertisements. The language in question had appeared in updated policies announced Monday and scheduled to take effect Jan. 16. After an outcry on social media
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One would have thought that Starbucks would have learnt from the #McDStories debacle. This time the #spreadthecheer campaign backfired as people protested the tax dodging techniques of Starbucks in the UK where the company rigged expenses to offshore monies so they paid an astonishing 0.17 % in taxes. Apparently the company had a display at Natural History Museum in London with
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This year, YouTube looked at views, shares, searches, parodies, remixes, and responses to identify the 10 videos that everybody was talking about in 2012.
Anonymous is targeting the Westboro Baptist Church. The new way of fighting evil in the digital realm. Westboro Baptist Church announced plan to protest funerals in Newtown, site of the deadly shooting last week. “After church leaders announce plans to protest at site of school massacre, Anonymous posts the personal information for dozens of members of the extremist group,
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