Companies that provide financial data are increasingly interested in our "likes" and tweets. A Ph.D. student recently studied how positive social media mentions are linked to stock market performance, and came up with some interesting results.
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How Much Is A ‘Like’ On Facebook Worth For A Company’s Share Price? : All Tech Considered : NPR
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Social Media Advice: When To Wish Happy Birthday? : NPR
Social media experts Baratunde Thurston and Deanna Zandt answer questions about how to behave in the digital age. This week’s topic: When a person has hundreds, perhaps even thousands of friends on Facebook, what’s the rule for wishing them a happy birthday?
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162963623/social-media-advice-when-to-wish-happy-birthday
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Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How’d They Do? : Planet Money : NPR
What happened when two guys who sell pizza out of a window in New Orleans decided to buy a Facebook ad — and what it says about the state of social-media advertising.
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For $75, This Guy Will Sell You 1,000 Facebook ‘Likes’ : Planet Money : NPR
People are gaming Facebook’s system. That could hurt the company’s business prospects.
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Tim Berners-Lee on the rise of walled gardens
Inventor of the world wide web says that throughout the history of the internet, people had been concerned about the emergence of apparently dominant giants.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/audio/2012/apr/18/tim-berners-lee-walled-gardens-audio
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Tim Berners-Lee on internet data and privacy
Inventor of the world wide wide talks about the potential misuses of personal information by companies, organisations and governments.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/audio/2012/apr/18/tim-berners-lee-internet-data-privacy-audio
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Facebook May Not Be So Friendly For Those With Low Self-Esteem : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
They complain a bit more than everyone else, and they often share their negative views and feelings when face to face with friends and acquaintances. Researchers wondered whether those behavior patterns would hold true online.
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Breaking Down Walls, a Decentralised Social Web?
The web is founded on open, decentralised principles. This means anyone can build a site that can link to any other, without any need for proprietary technology. No one owns e-mail, usenet or http, but social services like Facebook and Twitter are—for the most part—silo’d businesses with their own networks and proprietary APIs. You can join them together in code, but they’re not in any way ‘interoperable’.
This panel will explore why large and centralized seems to dominate, whether it’s a bug or a feature. We’ll take a critical eye at new attempts at building distributed social web products like Diaspora. We won’t be focusing on the technical specifications as much as the end user experience and the business models that could support them. If a distributed service wouldn’t be fun, easy to use or profitable, then is there really any point in building one…?
Evan Prodromou, CTO, StatusNet Inc
Founder and creator of the StatusNet open source social platform, Evan is the co-chair of the W3C’s working group on federated social web technologies.
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Podcast: Aleks Krotoski from BBC2’s Virtual World discusses Facebook’s agenda
US-born academic Aleks Krotoski warns that sites such as Facebook and Google have an agenda, even if their designers have not knowingly built the sites this way.
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Andy Carvin and Twitter’s New Journalism
February 25, 2011 Twitter and Facebook have been conduits of information throughout the protests in the Arab world. But that news has been atomized, second by second accounts coming from hundreds of unknown sources. Into that relentless stream has stepped NPR’s Andy Carvin, who’s become a one-stop clearinghouse of news by vetting sources and trying to verify individual tweets. Carvin explains how Twitter’s political utility has also created a new kind of journalism.
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