Social Networks

Getting together for a chat over lunch – the epitome of being social whether for business or pleasure. That’s what the photo above suggests to me, a picture of a group who did just that a few days ago at the delightful Petersham Hotel in Richmond, Surrey; people who know each other primarily though online [...]

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If you want get an idea of which major brands are doing what in China with Sina Weibo, the front-runner in microblogging in that country,  AdAge.com has a compelling feature that highlights what Starbucks and many other consumer brands are doing in tapping into China’s online culture and connecting with people on their terms: [...] [...]

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This chart showing the share of time spent online by US social networkers is interesting in that Facebook’s usage-growth trajectory is consistent over quite a long period, three years or so. The overall picture suggests that there are only two dominant players that matter – Google and Facebook. AOL looks in terminal decline with Microsoft [...]

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As more than 100,000 others did, I sat at a computer last evening to watch the live video stream of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg deliver his keynote speech at the start of f8, Facebook’s annual developer conference in San Francisco. Over the course of almost an hour, Zuckerberg laid out his grand plan for the [...]

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Universal Google+

Published on September 21, 2011 · 12:03 pm UK · 3 comments

in Communication, Experimenting, Social Media, Social Networks, Web

If you visit the Google search page today on your desktop or laptop computer, it will likely look like the screenshot you see here. A big blue hand-drawn arrow leads from the Google logo in the centre of your screen to the top-left corner, pointing to the word "+You." That’s Google+ (say it "Google Plus"), [...]

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Yesterday, Home Secretary Theresa May met with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger and the police in a widely-reported get-together to discuss the rights and responsibilities of the users of social networks, and the rights and responsibilities of the networks themselves, in times of civil disorder. If you take some newspaper headlines at face [...]

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Facebook has just published a handy guide to help you do all you can to stay safe and secure when you are online and using the social networking site. Available on free download, the 14-page PDF entitled "A Guide to Facebook Security For Young Adults, Parents, and Educators" offers a wealth of common-sense and practical [...]

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Sentences handed out in Chester as lawyers and civil rights groups express alarm about ‘disproportionate’ punishments

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Extraordinary growth – Google+, the embryonic social network launched by Google last month, is approaching 18 million members, Mashable reports. Quoting data from Google+ user Paul Allen who has been tracking user growth throughout July, Mashable says Google+ continues to set records as the fastest-growing social network in history although the meteoric rise in growth [...]

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A Malaysian social activist will apologise 100 times on Twitter in an unusual settlement with a magazine publisher in a defamation case, reports The Guardian. [...] Fahmi Fadzil, an opposition politician’s aide and respected commentator on social issues, claimed on Twitter in January that his pregnant friend had been poorly treated by her employers at [...]

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