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There are over 2,000 startups on AngelList that are categorized as "social commerce." That’s equivalent to every Stanford MBA over the last 5 years starting a brand new social commerce company. 
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The Election Commission, which summoned the social media companies to a meeting last Monday, directed them to cooperate in monitoring content.
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A report on Digital Activism and Non-Violent Conflict was released this month by the Digital Activism Research Project. It found that the role of hacking and cybercrime in digital activism is grossly overstated by the media and that while Facebook and Twitter are the leading platforms for activism on a global scale, other tools do well on a smaller, regional scale. The study found no causation or correlation between specific tools and positive outcomes.
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Online and diaspora activists should be recognised as the important early stages of a revolutionary movement, not a distraction.
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We are a specialized species. Each of us lives a different life with unique passions, intellectual pursuits and hobbies. We choose a path and along the way amass a distinct collection knowledge. But what if we could peek into each other’s minds to gain insight from the roads we’ll never travel? Well, we can. That’s the magic of Twitter.
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While it may well be important to have the top 100 influencers on any particular topic following you on Twitter or Facebook, it is not essential. You can make up for it by attracting, retaining, and activating everyone else. In short, anyone who shares her time, talent, and experience online is an important online influencer and potential brand ambassador for my clients.
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Twitter has hit Wall Street with a bang, as an investor frenzy quickly sent shares surging after the public share offering for the fast-growing social network.
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7 years ago, when Facebook and Twitter were just getting started, the primary magic trick to high growth rates involved creating a product that connected people to people and people to content. Back then this type of network effect gave the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world unexpected primacy over old-fashioned tech titans like AOL and Microsoft. For the first time, the power to build a large user base was given to people who had very small budgets, and the ability to instantly generate billions in market value trumped the comparatively slow process of building a tech company one customer at a time.
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For a company that’s supposed to be the next big thing in online advertising, Twitter is still losing a lot of money.
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When Twitter started seven years ago as an obscure medium for geeks, critics dismissed it as an exercise in narcissism. Some thought it would be as intriguing as watching people gaze at their bellybuttons. But it quickly matured into a worldwide messaging service used by everyone from heads of state to revolutionaries to companies trying to hawk products.
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Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a great tool for schools to use to share interesting and relevant information with the student body, staff, parents and family. No software to download and even with just one teacher cell phone per class, contributions can be done and modeled anywhere, anytime. Twitter has become such a popular tool because it asks one question, "What's happening?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. Like texting, the beauty of Twitter's is that its core technology is a device agnostic system that lets the masses participate. Because of this, with just a cell phone in hand, Twitter makes it easy for folks to stay connected...even if all they have at their finger tips is sms.
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Recent events can validate that online security breaches of social media accounts are becoming more frequent and extreme. In an effort to combat security threats, many internet companies such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have upped the priority level to integrate a method of security to protect their users.
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The Panopticon and the native American Potlatch ceremony are the yin and yang of social media gift economics, writes Dr Tim Rayner, driving and sustaining the frenzy of exchange made possible by our new 'social era'—an age of constant, multi-channel, real time sharing.
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SAN FRANCISCO — For Twitter to justify the high valuation of its stock, the micro-messaging company must spread the gospel of tweeting far beyond its current active user base of 232 million accounts.
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David Graeber’s excellent paper, "Toward an anthropological theory of value", has a fascinating section about the ancient Maori and their world view, in which I found one item particularly provocative. That Maori custom of sticking the tongue out during their haka war dance, so familiar to all rugby fans, always strikes us as a gesture of cheekiness or insult, because that’s what it now means in most European cultures. However, this isn’t what it originally meant to the Maori: when aimed at an enemy during a battle it meant "you are meat, and I’m going to eat you", and true to their word, if they defeated you they may well have done so. For some reason, this put me in mind of internet trolls.
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A little more than a week ago, I posted my first take on Twitter and argued that even in the absence of financial information from the company (since the prospectus had not been filed yet), you could price the company. Based on prior transactions in the company (VC infusions and acquisitions) and the multiples of revenues/users for other companies in the space (the social media medley, as I called it), I argued that Twitter would be priced at about $12 billion by the bankers.
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The co-creator of Twitter and Blogger has decided that "the internet is simply a giant machine designed to give people what they want." Here's what this grand unified theory means and where it came from.
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“We live within networks because we’ve evolved within networks. Regardless of whether you’re connected to the Internet or not, the culture you live in is connected to the Internet, as a fish is connected to water.” Is trying to achieve change over the Internet any use? What's the chasm that separates it from the RealWorld™
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