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Twitter and Your So-Called Social “Network”

HP Laboratories published some research back in January 2009 on revealing actual interactions among people of massive online social networks. The example of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver its usage and exploding growth is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the “declared” set of friends and followers.

LinkedIn And The Advertisement

I’m a business user subscriber of LinkedIn, paying serious bucks each year. And I still see tons of advertisement. WTF?!

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Fake Identities on Social Networks

Forget credit cards and social security numbers, a new lot of identity thieves will soon come after your web profiles, or says security firm Aladdin in their Annual Threat Report.

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Recommendations At The Work Place

The independent consumer-research company Big Research writes in November 2008 about recommendations at the work place: “Before they make a purchase, 93% of Americans consult their co-workers for advice.”

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A World of Bloggers

Despair.com “Blogging: Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few” http://bit.ly/uL8s

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My Day At Twitter

Here are some links and stories from yesterday: ■Adaptive Blue released Glue (http://www.getglue.com), a web2.0-based smart browsing plugin for firefox that adds items that your friends liked to relevant pages (Amazon, Boarders, Twitter, Flickr, etc.). It can import / manage quite a few social networks and is a nice way to discover more… ■Cone consulting [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Baseball Hour” Show Idea

Awsome idea by Gary Vaynerchuk on a video postcast show, free to grab and execute by anyone: Open a pack of vintage (or not so vintage) baseball cards. Talk about the pack company as well as the containing cards.

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Twittter Weekend Summary

I didn’t read any tweets over the weekend. Felt kind of weired.  So today I was finally able to catch up with all the stuff that was going on, here summary: ■Makani Power took in $5M for high-altitude wind energy by flying 10-square meter kites at ~800 meters altitude. The investment was made by google.org. [...]

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No More Job Website Invites, Please!

No more invites to social networks or job hunter / review sites, please!

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Death Of The Long Tail?

Social networking and media consolidates niches, forms new brands; long tail concept as we knew it dies and becomes a specialized thick tail.

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