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Today in Most Innovative Companies
Daily news of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Cisco, Spotify, Microsoft, and HP. HP : The third-dimension is all the rage these days, what with Avatar smashing box-office records, Sony and Panasonic selling out their 3-D televisions , and ESPN promising to broadcast its network in 3-D later this year. Cisco : It seems every tech-company CEO has raced to the blogosphere to respond to the FCC's National Broadband Plan. Cisco chair John Chambers isn't far behind Google 's Eric Schmidt (who recently compared the initiative to the 1960s space race ) and
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Screw Monetization! It's All About Ethonomics at SXSW
Ev Williams talked about Twitter partnering with 65 different cell-phone carriers to serve as an SMS news feed for the developing world, saying, "We've always held it important to make Twitter reach the weakest signals," and saying Twitter's number one goal was to "be a force for good" (hmm, sounds familiar!). Paul Rieckhoff of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America explained the social network he's building as a virtual VA. SXSW Interactive this year was all about ethonomics, or social media for social change. "How How do we create a future we want to live in?"
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Want to Read Good Journalism? Try NewsTrust's New Personalized Filtering Tool
NewsTrust is a media technology organization funded by the Omidyar Network and MacAurthur Foundation. Yesterday it launched a personalized news filtering tool called MyNews . The ability to post links to Twitter and Facebook with a single click means that users who already share articles around social networks have an opportunity to pause briefly and add another layer of value by using NewsTrust. Fair, thorough, enterprising and in context - that's what we're looking for in the journalism we read, isn't it? At a time when shallow ranting takes up so much space
ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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  • Shocking News: Scientists Say Workplace Social Networking Increases Productivity!
    Can you believe that using social networking sites at work can increase your workplace productivity? A new study just published by Australian scientists found that taking time to visit websites of personal interest, including news sites and YouTube, provided workers a mental break that ultimately increased their ability to concentrate and was correlated with a 9% increase in total productivity. Really, though, reading news feeds at work and using social networking Reporters are shocked by the findings. We're in shock that this is where the state of academic study
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, April 2, 2009
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  • How to Make Your Network Work for You
    Many people turn to networking when they're looking for a job, but the best time to build your network is before you need something; and the best time to keep that network strong is always. To reap the benefits of networking when you need them, you must know how to make your network work for you, and how you can work for your network. The But what is the best way to do that? Simply collecting business cards and attending events may expand your number of contacts, but does not increase the likelihood that those contacts will benefit you in the future.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 18, 2010
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  • Waking up to the economics of networked learning
      Via Stephen Downe s, Judy Breck believes, and I agree, that the economic crunch will speed the advent of network learnin g. And crucially, we can now consider such possibilities because of the network. The network doesn’t just change the way we learn from a pedagogical or behavioral perspective - it also changes the economics of the production, distribution, and consumption of educational products and services. Getting a college education in the US is absurdly expensive, but like property, or the stock market, the education bubble too will burst - the financial institutions simply no longer have the money to fund the madness.
    Ken Carroll - Thursday, October 9, 2008
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  • Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran
    The western world's most feared government is shaking with insurrection in the streets after a contested election and the leading name in news, CNN, is shockingly absent from the story. Twenty years ago this month, CNN brought live news about the Tienanmen Square uprising to the world. It's really strange that the network is absent from this story. Twitter , meanwhile, is how Iranians are communicating with the outside world. It's the best place to follow events going on in that country and CNN's failure to engage with the story is one of the hottest topics of conversation
    ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, June 14, 2009
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  • Why is Google Afraid of Facebook? Because Social Networking Could Soon Pass Search
    It's often said these days that Google and Facebook are major rivals, but how could that be if one is in search and the other, social networking? For perhaps the first time ever, social networking sites have surpassed the traffic search engines receive, Hitwise says. Social networking climbed fast this year, and Hitwise says it just peaked over search for a few days during the communication frenzy of Christmas. Traffic analyst firm Hitwise provided one very clear clue tonight when it published new numbers for web user activity in Australia. There is reason to question
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, January 21, 2010
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  • Action Streams: A New Idea for Social Networks
    A loose body of innovators from some of the biggest social networking companies online have begun discussing an addition to the Activity Streams standard format called an Action Stream . That could blow the world of social networking wide open, allowing users to try out other competing social networks without losing their ability to interact with friends on Facebook, for example. Walled gardens are already under attack because of the ease of sending content like messages and photos from one website to another. Sites that don't let content flow in and out freely, when
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, March 1, 2010
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  • When it Comes to News, Why Won't People Eat Their Vegetables?
    One of the basic questions in journalism these days is, "What news do consumers actually want?" With the Tools of Change for Publishing conference approaching, it seemed appropriate to talk to Lee, who has spent his professional life in the trenches of broadcast journalism, about where the industry is going and what the future of news looks like. Then I gradually got interested in the technology, and have tended to go back and forth between the journalism and news management Chris Lee believes that today's citizenry is getting too much of what they want, and too little of what they need.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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  • Hitwise: Twitter Drives Traffic to Blogs and Social Networks, But Not to Retail Sites
    Overall, Twitter sends about 1 in 5 users to social networks and another 1 in 5 to entertainment sites like Twitpic, YouTube, or Flickr. Among others, Hitwise notes that a higher share of downstream clicks from Twitter.com go to blogs and personal websites than from search sites, social networks, or email services. larger number of Twitter users are also being sent to news and media sites, which points towards Twitter's growing role as a According to the latest data from Hitwise , Twitter sends most of its traffic to Google, Facebook, TwitPic, and MySpace. Even though some
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, March 12, 2009
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  • Social Networks: Boomers Feel Left Out
    With regards to social networks, most Boomers also think that these sites are not focused on people their age. According to Burst Media, close to 80% of women and 76% of men under 34 belong to at least one social networking site. Part of the problem here is that Boomers don't think that these social networks are focused on their age group. Even though Baby Boomers make up more than one quarter of all US Internet users and even though the majority of this group spends over five hour per week online, a new survey by Burst Media found that only 14% of Boomers feel that the content on the Internet is focused on people their age.
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, August 27, 2009
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  • The Personal Network Effect
    The presumption in the design of most networks is that the value of the network increases with the number of nodes in the network. This is known as the Network Effect, a term that was coined by Robert Metcalfe , the founder of Ethernet. Image source It is therefore tempting to suggest that a similar sort of thing holds for members of the network, that the value of the network is increased the more connections a person has to the network. This isn't the case. Each connection produces value to the person.
    Half an Hour - Sunday, November 4, 2007
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