Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
A University of Michigan study confirms what many of us have long suspected: that using Facebook bums us out. Here’s a suggestion for reversing that trend. 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
If you walk into one of the massive data centers that underpin Facebook’s ever-expanding online empire, you’ll find tens of thousands of computer servers. Many of them are designed by Facebook, and most run Linux, the open source operating system that drives so much of the modern web. But those aren’t the only machines you’ll find.
Scoop.it!
There are over 2,000 startups on AngelList that are categorized as "social commerce." That’s equivalent to every Stanford MBA over the last 5 years starting a brand new social commerce company.
Scoop.it!
Recently a friend in a reading group suggested that we read The Critical Net Critic. While the piece is somewhat long and meandering it is also very good at helping to answer some of those fundamental questions about what is changing in the present economy and how we should understand (Information Technology) IT in relation to the rest of the productive economy.
Scoop.it!
The Election Commission, which summoned the social media companies to a meeting last Monday, directed them to cooperate in monitoring content.
Scoop.it!
A report on Digital Activism and Non-Violent Conflict was released this month by the Digital Activism Research Project. It found that the role of hacking and cybercrime in digital activism is grossly overstated by the media and that while Facebook and Twitter are the leading platforms for activism on a global scale, other tools do well on a smaller, regional scale. The study found no causation or correlation between specific tools and positive outcomes.
Scoop.it!
Some of America’s largest technology and telecoms companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and AT&T, are backing a network of self-styled “free-market thinktanks” promoting a radical rightwing agenda in states across the nation, according to a new report by a lobbying watchdog.
Scoop.it!
The Panopticon and the native American Potlatch ceremony are the yin and yang of social media gift economics, writes Dr Tim Rayner, driving and sustaining the frenzy of exchange made possible by our new 'social era'—an age of constant, multi-channel, real time sharing.
Scoop.it!
Most interesting is the question of how Facebook's interest is impacting Snapchat's plan to raise new capital at a big valuation (a deal that likely will include more founder liquidity). One theory is that it's an effort to make Zuckerberg increase his offer, by showing that others believe the company is far more valuable than his opening volley. An alternate – and more likely – theory is that this raise is to eliminate any temptation to sell the company, both for the founders and early investors (who may also get some cash back).
Scoop.it!
Facebook is leading a charge to displace traditional proprietary networking hardware and software in all of its data centers – potentially threatening the livelihood of large incumbents such as Cisco, Juniper, and Brocade in the wider market.
Scoop.it!
Forrester, a well-known market research group, has experts in an upheaval regarding their latest report about Facebook advertising. It all started on October 28, 2013, when Nate Elliott VP of Forrester wrote an open letter to Facebook. The letter begins, "Mr. Zuckerberg: Facebook is failing marketers."
Scoop.it!
I know this statement sounds remarkable, perhaps even unbelievable. After all, you offer marketers access to the largest audience in media history and you know a remarkable amount about each of your users. As a result nearly every large company now markets on Facebook. Last year your company collected more than $4 billion in advertising revenues.
Scoop.it!
Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and Twitter argue transparency will encourage debate over surveillance powe
|
Scoop.it!
No surprise — those Facebook photos of your friends on vacation or celebrating a birthday party can make you feel lousy.
Scoop.it!
Scoop.it!
Moore’s Law has granted to 21st-century organizations two new methods for governing complexity: locally powerful god-algorithms we’ll call Athenas and omniscient but bureaucratic god-algorithms we’ll call Adjustment Bureaus.
Scoop.it!
Recently, Syncapse conducted a study titled ‘The Value of a Facebook Fan 2013: Revisiting Consumer Brand Currency in Social Media.’ The purpose of the study was to dig in, and associate an actual dollar value to a fan who ‘likes’ a business page on the social platform.
Scoop.it!
It’s just not it any more… we want something new, exciting, which can take us places we’ve never been. We want to be surprised again. We want a new, better social network.
Marc Tirel's curator insight,
November 25, 2013 4:48 AM
Some good insights on the next Social Network
Scoop.it!
Recent events can validate that online security breaches of social media accounts are becoming more frequent and extreme. In an effort to combat security threats, many internet companies such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have upped the priority level to integrate a method of security to protect their users.
Scoop.it!
Facebook CFO David Ebersman recently admitted that the social network “did see a decrease in daily users, specifically among younger teens.” But given Facebook’s performance in the third quarter of the year, who really cares?
Scoop.it!
By using the new Facebook messenger to send messages to anyone on your contacts, you save yourself the SMS charges just like Whatsapp, WeChat and Snapchat. Facebook understands the need of the young ones in maintaining communication with their friends at all times and this is evident from the way the Facebook messenger has evolved from a desktop chat client to a messaging app on mobiles.
Scoop.it!
GigaOM: The Facebook-led Open Compute Project is set to vote on four new specifications that would make open source networking switches and OS software a reality in the near future.
Scoop.it!
Six months ago, the Facebook-led Open Compute Project shared its plans to work with networking vendors on creating an open source top-of-rack switch, and now that mission is almost complete. According to a blog post by Frank Frankovsky, chairman and president of the Open Compute Project and VP of hardware design and supply chain operations at Facebook, the organization is set to vote on and likely approve four specifications soon.
Scoop.it!
What a two weeks it's been. Something happened that has been simmering for a while. The API market exploded. Intel bought Mashery for more than $180 million..
Scoop.it!
Almost 80 percent of those surveyed happen upon news when they are checking up on friends or sharing photos. Heavy news consumers did not describe Facebook as an important source of news, the study found.
Laura Diamond's curator insight,
December 28, 2014 6:18 PM
The way we are viewing our news for the day is changing rapidly from reading it on a piece of paper for $1.70 to just logging onto Facebook, Twitter or any other social platform and reading the up to date current events around the world. I personally find myself reading the news events of the day on my Facebook i can't even remember the last time I physically purchased a newspaper from the store. |
