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Apparently, Canadians like to use of technology to manage their personal relationships. So much so they tend not to worry about family due to technology advances helping to keep people connected. This is the finding of a report published this week by Rogers (client).
The report focuses on how technology users connect to family and friends and includes a survey that 58 per cent of Canadians cannot imagine life without the modern conveniences of texting, email and social networking, while 39 per cent feel that staying connected with loved ones is …
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A Week of Check-ins on the Path to One Billion from foursquare on Vimeo.
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Foursquare, the location-based social networking service, is targeting brands and local businesses by revamping its business pages; this step will help it face formidable competition from Facebook Places.
The New York-based social networking company, which launched in 2009, was a pioneer in location-based “checking-in” to receive rewards and deals, but lately it seems to have lost momentum, partly because of the Facebook location initative.
The idea is to make Foursquare a whole lot easier for businesses to understand and use. The company has launched new Foursquare for Business pages which …
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As part of the UK Government’s on-going ‘Democracy UK’ Facebook page, it’s set up a ‘Spending Challenge Channel’ on the social networking site, which will allow users to submit and vote on suggestions about how spending cuts should be made. Here Prime Minister David Cameron and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have a chat about the project.
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Yahoo! mail integrates Facebook
It wasn’t long ago that many of us were saying Ya-who? But over the past few days, the one-time giant has started to rear its head again, pushing more toward being a content-focused brand. Tony C from the Yahoo! team is filling us in on a new feature for users of Yahoo! Mail. Facebook has been pretty deeply integrated into Yahoo! Mail since this past December, with features like importing and mailing your Facebook friends and cross posting your Facebook status into Yahoo!
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Three cool tools for restoring your Facebook privacy
Well, it seems all this complaining about Facebook’s laissez faire attitude toward its users’ privacy has finally gotten their attention. According to published reports, the company called an “all hands meeting” to discuss the controversy last week. And what has come of that meeting? Apparently a lot of soul searching, renting of garments, and gnashing of teeth, per a report in the Wall Street Journal. But otherwise, a whole lot of nothing.
So leave it to some clever entrepreneurs to do what …
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Facebook users warned of sexy ‘candid camera prank attack
Security firms are warning Facebook users to beware of what’s being called the “Candid Camera Prank” attack recently spotted on Facebook that tries to use the lure of a sexy video of a scantily clad woman on a bicycle to download a video player that’s actually Hotbar adware, and maybe worse.
Openbook wants to teach Facebook users importance of privacy
A new website is aiming to teach social networkers about privacy by allowing web users to search for embarrassing Facebook status updates …
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Social media may help address looming budget issues faced by public service organisations, by providing economical ways of engaging citizens, delivering services, and by empowering and supporting employees. This is the finding of a published this week by the Society of Information Technology Management.
Entitled Social media:why ICT management should lead their organisations to embrace it, the report advises local government to embrace social networking websites rather than blocking staff members from using them.
However, restricting access to social network sites is normal practice among councils across the UK with some 90% …
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A new social networking site, MyBrandz, was launched today in Beta. The idea is to bring all brand fans together to discuss, share and update each other aboutthe brands they love.
MyBrandz places the brand at the heart of its web service – the MyBrandz Matrix – a dynamic compass mapping the brand world and sorting brands by popularity and affinity. By viewing the Matrix, members can find out which brands are hottest and log on to new trends. The matrix is based on exclusive Brand Rank, which is …
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Today the UK national media were reporting that social network sites like Facebook and Twitter are no longer the preserve of the young with middle-aged people (like me!) logging into them in ever-larger numbers based on a report published by Ofcom, the communications regulator.
I got a call from Manx Radio here in the Isle of Man asking me if I’d come in and do an interview on the subject, and I said I’d be delighted. The thing is once the interview got underway we spent most of the time talking …
