People on Facebook install 20 million
apps every day, according to the blog post 20
stunning social media statistics. Google+, which has not even launched publicly,
already has more than 25 million users. They had the first 10 million within 16
days. Fast work. The post has some useful graphics that illustrate the points
made in the list.
Think about when disaster strikes. An earthquake. A tsunami. News and
information online generally appear very quickly in a variety of ways - through
Facebook, blogs, tweets, YouTube, news feeds and web sites. The result?
Atomisation.
Retickr allows you to create a
customisable streaming feed to run on your computer. The feed can include news
headlines, Facebook or Twitter updates or whatever other content you want to
see in a feed - such as weather. You can have different lists for work and
home.
Retickr allows you to create a
customisable streaming feed to run on your computer. The feed can include news
headlines, Facebook or Twitter updates or whatever other content you want to
see in a feed - such as weather. You can have different lists for work and
home.
If you tweet and post, you might wonder how much influence you
have. A new downloadable application, called Klout, aims to help you measure the impact you have in
social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, YouTube,
Blogger, Flickr, Instagram, Last.fm and Tumblr.
Facebook may be a
popular choice but if you want to network with other scientists, then ResearchGate may be a more useful social
network. It bills itself as the largest scientific network online, with more
than 1.2 million members.
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