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The Facebook eye: What brands can learn from online narcissism
Just as a photographer develops 'the camera eye', so too social media use…
Gaming as giving? Can social take games beyond pure entertainment?
New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Kristof sure hopes so. He…
Zuckerberg or Acts of God – What Will Slow Down Social Sharing?
The social media word of the week is “sharepocalypse.” Serial Internet entrepreneur Nova Spivack just launched Bottlenose, a tool designed to remedy the information overload induced by tweets and Facebook status updates. Tech pundits cite Zuckerberg’s Law, the prediction that the rate of information sharing doubles every year. Facebook has encouraged this growth through subtle tweaks and wholesale overhauls of its platform, native content, and privacy settings. Increasing reach of status updates has been a key part of its strategy, beginning with t…