Archive for July, 2010
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Using millions of Twitter messages, or tweets, from the popular social networking site Twitter, researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have created a Twitter Mood Map to measure the moods of the nation.
People are happiest in the morning and in the evening, with happiness peaking on Sunday morning and dipping ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Google is holding talks with online game developers as part of its bid to build a social-networking service that could compete with Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the matter", said the internet giant is in discussions with Playdom, which was acquired by The Walt ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Facebook on Monday launched a webpage devoted to staying safe on the internet.
The "Safety Page" will highlight news and initiatives focused on ways people can keep data secure at the world's leading online social-networking community, Joe Sullivan of Facebook said in a blog post.
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Australian traffic to MySpace has tanked by almost 50 per cent in the past year as its owner, News Corp, announces plans to relaunch the site to target a younger audience.
Facebook first overtook MySpace as Australia's leading social networking site in April 2008 and today it attracts about 8.7 million ...
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is set to try out his small screen acting chops in a season 22 episode of The Simpsons.
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the news in a Facebook message to Mashable.
The episode in question is said to be titled “Loan-A Lisa”, in which Zuckerberg plays the entrepreneurial role model ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Labor is losing the battle in social media even though it is dominating the conversation online, say social media strategists who have delivered a scathing report on the main political parties' efforts in what was billed a "digital election".
Despite three elections to learn from, Australia in 2007, the United States ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
As Facebook, the world's biggest social network, prepares to declare it has officially hit the 500m user mark, turns out that some are unhappy with the site. But of course not enough to want to leave.
Facebook siteThe University of Michigan's 2010 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report said that ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
MySpace and MTV are teaming up to stream live videos of interviews with celebrities like Seth Rogen, Jeff Bridges, Michael Cera and the cast of Glee plus sneak peeks at unreleased entertainment during Comic-Con this weekend.
The programming will stream at MTV.com and the MySpace Comic-Con page starting Thursday, July 22 ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Facebook's co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moscovitz have both expressed some measure of disapproval where the highly anticipated film The Social Network is concerned.
Moscovitz published a frank assessment of the upcoming movie on a Q&A site, saying the trailers seemed “a lot more exciting” than the actual goings-on during Facebook's ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
The creator of a Facebook tribute to a British killer who shot himself dead after a stand-off with police removed the page on Thursday after it sparked condemnation, including from the British Prime Minister.
Siobhan O'Dowd said she had taken down the page dedicated to Raoul Moat - but was unrepentant ...
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