LA Times: Some Teens Aren’t Liking Facebook as Much As Older Users
From the Los Angeles Times: With more than 900 million users, Facebook remains the most popular online hangout. But some young people are turning their attention elsewhere. They are checking out new...
View ArticleJust Released Report from Pew Internet: Twitter Use 2012
From the Report’s Overview: As of February 2012, some 15% of online adults use Twitter, and 8% do so on a typical day. Overall Twitter adoption remains steady, as the 15% of online adults who use...
View ArticleSocial Search Research: “SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the...
The following paper appears in the proceedings of ICWSM 2012 (International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)) that began today in Dublin, Ireland. Title SearchBuddies: Bringing...
View ArticleNew Research Article: “Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly...
Title Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information Authors Hadas Shema Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Judit Bar-Ilan Department of Information Science,...
View ArticleMore Than 6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Leaked Online, Change Yours ASAP
Better safe than sorry! Change your password ASAP. Coverage 1. LinkedIn investigating reports that 6.46 million hashed passwords have leaked online (via The Verge) 2. Millions of LinkedIn passwords...
View ArticleFacebook Launches App Center
From the Facebook Newsroom: The App Center features mobile and web apps, such as Draw Something, Pinterest, and Nike+ GPS, and new apps including Jetpack Joyride, Ghosts of Mistwood, and Ghost Recon...
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Updated: World Map of Social Networks (June 2012)
A new update from Vincenzo Cosenza. “Showing the most popular social networking sites by country, according to Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data*.” Read the complete announcement,...
View ArticleNew Working Paper: “Wikipedia Perpetuates Political Bias”
Title Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia Authors Shane Greenstein Northwestern U. Feng Zhu USC Source National Bureau of Economic Research Abstract We examine...
View ArticleOCLC: Linked Data Now Included in WorldCat Facebook App
via the OCLC Developer Network: The availability of Linked Data in WorldCat.org has everyone here very excited. We had been anxiously awaiting the chance to make use of this new feature in our own...
View ArticleResults of International Survey: “Feeling Better Connected: Academics’ Use of...
The following full text report was published in June by the News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Australia. Title Feeling Better Connected: Academics’ Use of Social Media Author...
View ArticleU.S. Army Warns Soldiers, Families: "Geotagging Poses Security Risks"
Some of the info and examples in the article can also be of value to those of you who provide social media training and instruction. From USArmy.mil: “Is a badge on Foursquare worth your life?” The...
View ArticleRoundup: Twitter Acquires Posterous, Yahoo Sues Facebook, UK Gov Appoints...
1. Welcoming the Posterous team to the flock (via Twitter Blog) and Posterous Acquisition FAQ Posterous will continue online at least for time being. 2. Yahoo Suing Facebook Over Patent Infringement...
View ArticleNew Article: "What Your Tweets Tell Us About You: Identity, Ownership and...
Title What Your Tweets Tell Us About You: Identity, Ownership and Privacy of Twitter Data Authors Heather Small Graduate School of Education and Information Studies University of California, Los...
View ArticleDenver Public Library Launches New Site to Digitize Neighborhood Histories
From The Denver Post: The Denver Public Library is set to unveil a social networking website on March 20, which will allow users to upload their own photos and recollections of Colorado’s history. It...
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Europeana Now "Experimenting" With Pintrest
Direct to Europeana on Pintrest See Also: Pinterest for GLAMs: Europeana’s Experiment (via Europeana Blog) At Europeana HQ we have already been testing the waters for a while now with a wide variety...
View ArticlePinterest is updating its terms of service and preparing its API
via The Next Web: Fast growing social sharing site Pinterest has introduced significant changes to its terms of service and began to develop APIs to open the service up to third party developers and...
View ArticleNew Article Looks at Social Media as a Promotion, Development, and Delivery...
Title Trove: the Terrors and Triumphs of Service-Based Social Media Authors Alison Dellit, Business Architect National Library of Australia Sarah Schindeler, Reference Librarian National Library of...
View ArticleResearch and Info Literacy Skills: "Spike Lee Latest Celeb to Practice...
From MSNBC: Spike Lee wasn’t the first to retweet the erroneous address on Twitter blindly accepted by many as that of George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month....
View ArticleNew Article: "The Influence of Free Encyclopedias on Science"
Title The influence of free encyclopedias on science Author Sarah Huggett Source Research Trends* From the Article Since its launch in 2001 Wikipedia has seen incredible growth worldwide, counting more...
View ArticleSocial Media in Europe: Survey of 1000 Swedish Facebook Users Released
From the University of Gothenburg (via AlphaGalileo): Key Findings from the Survey: The average user spends 75 minutes per day on Facebook • The average user logs on to Facebook 6.1 times per day • 70...
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