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Category Archives: Social Media

Underfunded Scientists Hit Up the Web for Cash (Successfully)

Crowdsourcing is nothing new, but as a way of funding investigative research at a public institution of higher learning, well, it does constitute…
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Silicon Valley Roars Up an Arms Race for Washington Power

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has just nabbed Larry Summers for the board of Square, his latest tech start-up. In case anyone thinks they’re…
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Twitter and Facebook the New Nielsen?

Twitter rankings and Facebook Likes have been all the rage for some time now. If someone isn’t bragging about the number of followers…
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American Grad Student from Georgia Fesses Up to Authoring “Gay Girl in Damascus” Blog

Writing from Istanbul, Turkey, the American grad student Tom MacMaster, currently studying at the University of Edinburgh, confessed to being the “sole author”…
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Lady Gaga and Eric Schmidt Invest in Backplane, a New Social Network

The new entertainment- and sports-focused social network in not up and running quite yet, but tidings of its forthcoming existence has just hit…
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Shaquille O’Neal Passes the Ball to Tout, a San Francisco Startup

Everyone knows Shaquille O’Neal is the proud owner of very many special things, enviable height, brawn, wit, and hooping talents among them. But…
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Police Beat Crowd-Sourced by Bay Area Civilians

This week saw a very peculiar unfolding of a real-life crime drama in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two days ago (Tuesday), 27-year-old…
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A Social Network for Cars? Toyota, Salesforce.com, and Microsoft Say Yes!

Japanese automaker Toyota and Salesforce.com are in the midst of perfecting a car-focused social networking platform that will enable users to, for example,…
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Bing Goes Deeper into Social Search

It seems Microsoft may be in for a much-delayed social media breakthrough with a more socially searchable Bing. Reaping some of the rewards…
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The Makings of an E-Smokers’ Social Network

Yes, today the web is abuzz with news of Facebook’s no-longer-so-stealth smear campaign against Google, but did you hear the news that social…
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