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Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity
Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and has studied this space extensively for years. With Buzz, Google found the social equivalent to the famous “uncanny valley” (where things seem almost natural, but aren’t quite close enough, so they’re creepy). Boyd’s second case study was Facebook’s privacy changes in December, when Facebook changed ‘everyone’ to the default. Today at SXSWi, keynote speaker Danah Boyd took the stage to talk about privacy and publicity, and how they intertwine online.
TechCrunch - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
Moreover, a full slate of parties and receptions during the evening hours help to accelerate the social aspect of the event. The topic of the event is the emergence of digital activism for fostering positive social change. 15 – 16 March 2010: London, England 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum — London The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus.
ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 6 March 2010
Moreover, a full slate of parties and receptions during the evening hours help to accelerate the social aspect of the event. 15 – 16 March 2010: London, England 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum — London The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. Social Networking World Forum This week we added one of the most exciting events of the year to the calendar: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 . Sure, we're a little biased, but we think the conference is the place this year
ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, March 6, 2010
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  • Smart.fm: Why Goals are the new Lists
    partnered with Adaptive Path to transform the site into a “motivating, social world of learning.” Instead of organizing content around topics, which people may study for many different reasons, content will soon be organized around Goals that people can form communities around. experience: “a friendly social world of learning” that “invites play” and “reveals and celebrates progress.” Part of the Smart.fm iPhone App Story
    Adaptive Path - Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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  • Bringing the smart.fm Experience to the iPhone
    For example, we all agreed that mobile phones are great social lubricants (hand it to a friend), great for quick check-ins and great for when you have unexpected downtime. All of the ideas generated were clustered and use cases for the smart.fm The next step was the organization of the resulting use cases into a mental model and the listing of application features under each mental space. Imagine that you want to learn how to read and speak Japanese. You’ve heard about the web-based learning applications offered by smart.fm and check them out.
    Adaptive Path - Friday, June 12, 2009
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  • Smart.fm: Developing a Great Experience
    They select a goal and begin studying it with the learning game Alexa described earlier . In addition, the user’s study progress needs to be synced back to the Smart.fm What if the user studied that same goal, or another one in the mean time… download that progress and figure out the user’s total progress across all goals. Part of the Smart.fm iPhone App Story
    Adaptive Path - Thursday, October 29, 2009
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  • Case Study: Twitter Usage at Wordcamp SF
    Pathable , an events social networking company, has posted an analysis on the use of Twitter at WordCamp SF . The community in this case is self-selected; it's the people using event tags or interacting with the event Twitter identity. One of my many hats is as an events organizer. Twitter has become an invaluable tool for me to gauge the mood of the attendees.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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  • Smart.fm: Crafting a Visual Language
    Unlike the existing, web-based learning apps, in which you study in 5 to 10 item sessions that have a clear start and end, we want learning on the iPhone to feel continuous. Your study record (how many items you’ve gotten right or wrong today) Item progress is represented by a leaf’s “ripeness” — the more you study an item, the greener it becomes. Part of the Smart.fm iPhone App Story
    Adaptive Path - Monday, June 29, 2009
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  • BuddyPress as a university’s social network: case study
    It’s as if they were already a member of the social network, which, being members of the university, they are of course. The few people that know about it and have already joined, instantly see the benefits of having the social networking layer on top of the blogs. 8230;The potential for supporting personalised and group online learning is now better than it’s ever been and the social networking element only helps bring peers together for collaboration BuddyPress: Friends activity , originally uploaded by umwdtlt . It’s exciting to see Jim Groom’s
    Abject Learning - Friday, March 13, 2009
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  • StumbleUpon, A Case Study In The Efficient Allocation Of Resources
    So StumbleUpon , a social bookmarking site that lets users browse and discover new websites by clicking a button, was a subsidiary of eBay for just less than two years. The acquisition made the startup’s founders extremely wealthy, given that they raised just $1.5 million in venture capital, and sold for $75 million.
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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  • Six Ways to Find Social Media Talent
    As organizations move their social media strategies from theory to practice, they discover a difficult truth they must confront: Finding the "perfect" social media talent is practically impossible. Maybe they do know social media, but many don't. More broadly, most candidates for social media positions fall at the ends of a spectrum. To start, the field is flooded with thousands of self proclaimed "experts" who have reinvented themselves to take advantage what looks like a growing business opportunity. They need to be vetted.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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  • It's Live! New JCMC on Social Network Sites
    It gives me unquantifiable amounts of joy to announce that the JCMC special theme issue on “Social Network Sites” is now completely birthed. The more you love them, the more they’ll prosper! JCMC Special Theme Issue on “Social Network Sites” Guest http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/ “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” by danah boyd It was a long and intense labor, but all eight newborn articles are doing just fine and the new mommies are as proud as could be. So please, join us in
    Many-to-Many - Monday, November 12, 2007
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  • Can Media Take Tips from Twitter? Techmeme's Experience as Case Study
    Can media organizations leverage the social web to get story tips faster than they could through traditional methods? Rivera says the best tips are to relatively obscure sites that Techmeme wouldn't have found otherwise and points to a number of cases where that's exactly what Atul and Desai have done. A number of news aggregators believe so and are looking to Twitter for tips. Six weeks ago popular tech news aggregator Techmeme began accepting story tips submitted on Twitter.
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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