Like, Follow, Share, Add – these are all buttons that are appearing on almost every single web site these days. It is a fantastic method for web site publishers to get their visitors to join the conversation on social networks, but it is also a fantastic way for the big Internet companies to follow you [...]

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On December 9th, 2010 – Vancouver Police experimented with social media. They setup a Twitter account and tweeted hundreds of police calls. Vancouver police Const. Anne Longley was tweeting calls all day including a reportedly drunk woman dancing in the street or the arrest of a man caught stealing beer from a loading truck. What [...]

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From Wikipedia:  ”Astroturfing denotes political, advertising, or public relations campaigns that are formally planned by an organization, but are disguised as spontaneous, popular “grassroots” behavior. The term refers to AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass.”. On the web, Astroturfing has become a very important part of marketing strategies and damage [...]

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What happens when you need to store 40 million photos each day (200/second) and have 350 million users worldwide? You build your own data center. Facebook has confirmed that it is building one of the greenest data centers in the industry to house tens of thousands of servers so that you can make quick status [...]

Read Full Article     |     No Comments     |     Posted: April 28th, 2010