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Facebookers' profiles capture true personality
Berlin :: Germany | about 11 hours ago
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In fact, our findings suggest that online social networking profiles convey rather accurate images of the profile owners, either because people aren''t trying to look good or because they are trying and failing to pull it off. "These findings suggest...
Tags: social networks, online social, profile owners, networks profile, Germany, Berlin, Trait theory, Personality traits, Outline of self, Neuroticism, Enneagram of Personality, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Technology Internet, Facebook
Loneliness is a social disease, study finds
Framingham :: MA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility L oneliness is contagious and expressing it can make us even more isolated, according to new research from Harvard, the University of Chicago and the University of California-San Diego. Looking at a longitudinal study of more than 12,000 people, the researchers...
Tags: John Cacioppo, University of Chicago, social networks, chicago psychologist, study finds, psychologist john, Framingham, Loneliness, Social psychology, Health Medical Pharma, Sociology, Social network, Emotion, Happiness, Nicholas A. Christakis, Obesity, Psychology, Emotional contagion, Technology Internet, Behavioural sciences, Social rejection, Affect, Entertainment Culture
hi5 recruits a beastly gaming veteran as its president
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Social network hi5 has hired a pioneer in the video game industry to kick its social gaming strategy into high gear. It remains to be seen if hi5 truly realizes what it’s getting in the hiring of Alex St...John, founder of online game firm Wild Tangent...
Tags: Alex St. John, Microsoft, social networks, Zynga, hi5 ha, San Francisco, Web 2.0, Hi5, Virtual communities, Social information processing, Technology Internet, Online social networking, Facebook, Facebook applications
Retailers try to be helpful without being creepy
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Michael Redding describes the get-to-know-you game between man and machine as a version of "Name That Tune." Take, for example, someone who lands on an online retailer's home page and enters a search term. The Web site can identify the person's rough...
Tags: Michael Redding, online retailers, Accenture Technology Labs, web sites, social networks, David Selinger, Samir Balwani, search term, Chicago, Personalization, Online shopping, Accenture, Website, Technology Internet, Human-computer interaction, World Wide Web
Small-business Q&A: Using social networks can pay
Houston :: AK :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility What exactly is social media and can it help bring in business? A: Like any emerging idea, the definition of social media is still a little blurry around the edges. Social media is an umbrella term that includes interactive broadcasts such as blogs and...
Tags: social media, web sites, social networks, Houston, Web 2.0, Social information processing, Website, Business Finance, Community websites, Technology Internet, Online social networking, LinkedIn, Social network service
Get Real Business Results From Social Media
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Judging from that data, you'd think small businesses everywhere were fired up about social media. At the moment, that's apparently not the case, according to a recent Citibank survey of 500 U.S. small businesses (consisting of 100 employees or less).
Tags: media efforts, social networks, Chris Lindland, Ben Parr, small businesses, Curtis Kimball, twitter posts, San Francisco
After social networks, what next?
Tehrān :: Iran | 8 days ago
Credibility Openness is important for the future of a company, says Biz Stone, CEO of Twitter In digital media , as in fortune-telling, the future is pretty much treated as part of the present. "What is the next big thing?"
Tags: social networks, Oxford, Iran, Tehrān, Web 2.0, Blog hosting services, Twitter, Facebook, Social network service, Online social networking, Social information processing, Social media, Technology Internet
Are you a `meformer' or an `informer' on social network sites?
Miami :: FL :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility It seems like we have a hard time forgetting about the ``I'' in Twitter. That was the conclusion by two Rutgers professors who studied the content of 3,000 tweets sent by 350 Twitter users. The communication and information professors, Mor Namaman and...
Tags: social networks, awareness streams, Jeffrey Boase, networks sites, social awareness, Miami, Blog hosting services, Real-time web, Social network service, Microblogging, Naaman, Online social networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, Technology Internet
Message from Tolkien for Facebook and the net monopolists
London :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
Credibility Tim O'Reilly is a heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service...To save effort, he has arranged things so that his Twitter posts are automatically forwarded to Facebook where they are transformed into "status updates"...But O'Reilly is a proper techie,...
Tags: Tolkien, dominant online, Tim O'Reilly, social networks, O'Reilly Twitterstream, United Kingdom, London, Web 2.0, Social information processing, Facebook, AOL, Twitter, Online social networking, Blog hosting services, Social media, Technology Internet
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