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Being connected is more of a good thing than it is a bad thing
There are plenty of things that are bad about being connected to the internet and the social web all the time, but there are far more good things about it, including the relationships that it allows us...
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Andy Carvin launches social-media reporting team for First Look
Former NPR staffer and Twitter-based journalist Andy Carvin is launching a team of half a dozen social-media "anchor/producers" who will be embedded in various social platforms like Twitter, Facebook...
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Instagram could be one of the best deals of the last decade
If a Citigroup analyst is right about the amount of revenue that Instagram will be able to generate from advertising over the next couple of years, Facebook's acquisition of the company for just $1...
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Here’s how a real teenager uses, and doesn’t use, social media
A description from 19-year-old Andrew Watts provides a fascinating glimpse into how some teenaged users approach different social-media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat...
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Vine rings in its second year by hitting 1.5 billion daily loops
Video app Vine celebrated its second anniversary Saturday, prompting product head Jason Toff to share new metrics. The company is now seeing 1.5 billion loops, or plays, a day of its six second videos....
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Six ways in which Andrew Keen is wrong about the internet
In his new book "The Internet Is Not The Answer," author Andrew Keen continues a theme he introduced in previous books, about how the internet is a net negative for the economy and for society. But I...
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Facebook owns the four most-downloaded mobile apps in 2014
Mobile analytics firm App Annie released a report on app trends on Wednesday that sorts out what kind of software people downloaded on their phones and tablets in 2014. The answer: Facebook-owned apps,...
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How I became my cat’s social media manager, and found a community in the process
I last made an internet friend in middle school, when so few people used AIM that my real-life friends and I traded contact lists and began chatting strangers. One time a boy asked for my number and...
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Instagram’s Boomerang takes on Vine & Apple’s Live Photos with 1-second videos
Instagram has released a new standalone application called Boomerang. It allows users to share 1-second video clips with their friends, effectively taking the “don’t-call-them-GIFs” animations from...
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Roadmap 2014 beckons, an evolution of connectivity & design
In 2011, I wondered how the increasing state of connectedness was going to impact us as people. How will it change how we interact with technology and how will a society that is data-informed evolve?...
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