All you marketers out there here’s a big change you must know of. Facebook is implementing a big change on its mobile News Feed. Facebook is changing the aspect ratio of all the images and videos shown in the mobile News Feed. The social media giant is reducing the maximum media height for photos and […]
Researchers find a way to identify individuals in supposedly anonymous social-network data. One way for social networks to make money is by sharing information about users with advertisers and others who are interested in understanding consumer behavior and exploiting online trends. Social networks typically promise to remove “personally identifying information” before sharing this data, to […]
LinkedIn is the most professional looking of all the social networking service. It is very oriented toward your professional network and not your broader personal network. In fact, unlike almost all the other sites, LinkedIn doesn’t allow for you to add a photo your personal page. The “connections” are not called friends here. LinkedIn has […]
When asked this question, many people cite identity theft, social isolation, pornography and infidelity. In order to determine if these are valid points, each of these issues must be considered. Why Parents Think Social Networking Sites should be banned Many parents dislike social networking because they believe that sites such as MySpace and Facebook attract […]
Mobile phones have become the ubiquitous gadget which is like a shadow with all of us. As techno logy is improving and we are going from 3G to 4G especially in the developed world, mobile are increasingly used for social networking. Recently, Advertising Age reported on the 400% surge in mobile video uploads to YouTube, […]
Looking Glass, the social media aggregator from Microsoft was opened up for beta testing in January 2009. The Windows team and put in place a load-balancing plan, meant to control the number of downloads that could happen at a time so the system wouldn’t crash, and opened up the beta-testing download period on a Friday […]
Individual-level Density The degree a respondent’s ties know one another/ proportion of ties among an individual’s nominees. Network or global-level density is the proportion of ties in a network relative to the total number possible (sparse versus dense networks). Flow betweenness centrality The degree that a node contributes to sum of maximum flow between all […]
Evolution of social media: 2006 was about “What is social media” and “Why does it matter”. Business blogging, flogs, podcasting and second life were the hot topics. 2007 is about “How do I deploy social media”. Companies will start to integrate Social Media up and down and side to side in the organization, both externally […]
Here are the important points in this issue: 1. An organization has to understand the importance of social media and transparency for the future of your company/organization 2. An organization needs tools to make it easy for customers and prospects to participate (product reviews, service reviews, ideas, enhancement requests, online catalogs and other tools need […]
If we’re going to put a social media strategy into place, we need to align the path we are going to take, and develop it with an understanding of how to reach our goals. Where are we going? How are we going to get there? How do we know we’ve arrived? Let us start in […]