Posts Tagged with Facebook

Looking at the World in a Whole New Way

When most of us think of the word ‘data,’ we conjure up images of line graphs, pie charts, and spreadsheets with columns and rows of numbers. But what if someone were to say that data can also represent what you post on Facebook or Twitter, the ratings you gave a restaurant, the photos you uploaded [...]

Filed under: News on December 30th, 2009 @ 8:00 am

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Facebook Acquires Friendfeed, What Do They Get?

In a move that quickly swept across the media landscape, Facebook announced that it had acquired Friendfeed, a single platform for receiving updates from more than 60 Web sites, including Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, for an undisclosed sum. The deal comes at a time when Facebook wants to leverage its audience of 250 million active [...]

Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 11th, 2009 @ 11:30 am

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Charity 2.0: Surviving the Crowded Space

While there’s little doubt that social media mainstays like Facebook and Twitter have been wildly successful at connecting groups of friends, musicians and fans, business and consumer and relatively recently, non-profits and philanthropists, but particularly where the latter is concerned, when is a saturation point reached?
CNET examines this question as increasing numbers of charities get [...]

Facebook Steps Into Online Retail

According to data published on the site, Facebook currently boasts 250 million active users, nearly half of which login at least once a day, making it the 3rd most visited site behind only Google and Yahoo. Following the announcement that the social network released its first e-commerce storefront (1-800 Flowers) last week, with 20 more [...]

Filed under: News, Technology on August 5th, 2009 @ 3:34 pm

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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.

As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.