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Willis Wee

A Gorgeous Chart: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace [Stats] - 3 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 08 Oct 09
     
    A graph from ComScore tells a simple fact: MySpace and Twitter are far behind Facebook.
Willis Wee

STATS: Facebook U.S Visits Increased By 194% | Penn Olson - 0 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 12 Oct 09
     
    According to Hitwise, Facebook's year to year U.S market share (in terms of visits) increased by a whopping 194%!
Willis Wee

CEO Uses YouTube To Warn Others Over Corrupted Russia - 1 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 11 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 11 Oct 09
     
    He decided to use the web because "the freedom of the press in Russia is compromised". The video has a simple description: "Hermitage exposes the criminals behind a $230 million tax fraud against the Russian state."
Willis Wee

3 Benefits of Social Media Use At Workplace - 5 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 09 Oct 09
     
    The truth is if you manage it well, benefits of social media use (not for work purpose) can make the risk you take worth it.
Willis Wee

Y,000,000,000uTube: Hits 1 Billion Views Per Day - 1 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 09 Oct 09
     
    Did you notice YouTube's new logo today? It has been modified to celebrate its '1 billion views per day' milestone!
Willis Wee

5 Social Media Founders On TV [Videos] - 5 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 16 Oct 09
     
    Thanks to these brilliant people, we are able to enjoy social media and have it become a big part of our lives.
yc c

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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shared by yc c on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • They should be like the historical coffeehouses, taverns and pubs where one shifts flexibly between focused and collective reading — much like opening a newspaper and debating it in a more socially networked version of the current New York Times Room for Debate.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 16 Oct 09
       
      Many websites like NewsVine seem to offer this kind of experience.
  • Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.
  • Reading on screen requires slightly more effort and thus is more tiring, but the differences are small and probably matter only for difficult tasks.
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  • In one study, workers switched tasks about every three minutes and took over 23 minutes on average to return to a task. Frequent task switching costs time and interferes with the concentration needed to think deeply about what you read.
  • After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read. We learn to do so by an extraordinarily ingenuous ability to rearrange our “original parts” — like language and vision, both of which have genetic programs that unfold in fairly orderly fashion within any nurturant environment. Reading isn’t like that.
  • And that, of course, is the problem at hand. No one really knows the ultimate effects of an immersion in a digital medium on the young developing brain. We do know a great deal, however, about the formation of what we know as the expert reading brain that most of us possess to this point in history
  • Hypertext offers loads of advantages. If while reading online you come across the name “Antaeus” and forget your Greek mythology, a hyperlink will take you directly to an online source where you are reminded that he was the Libyan giant who fought Hercules. And if you’re prone to distraction, you can follow another link to find out his lineage, and on and on. That is the duality of hyperlinks. A hyperlink brings you to information faster but is also more of a distraction.
  • floor. I once counted my books among my most prized possesions, now I wish I could somehow convert them all to digital files.
  • My book shelves are full, and books are stacked on the
  • Textbooks also require big double pages with margins for notes. Writing and reading are communication between writer and reader, the audience and genre (and thus expectations) are important, and the format and technology can be used for bad or good. One is not better than the other, they are different, and the more we know of the needs of writers and readers the better technology will become.
  • All of the commentators and responses miss a crucial question here: reading for what purpose?
  • To further complicate this, most of what I read for pleasure is about art or photography, and the kind of history that comes with cool pictures. If paper suddenly disappeared I'd be lost. Most of what I read for work has to be verified, cross referenced, fact-checked, etc. on a tight deadline. If the Internet suddenly disappeared, I'd be more than lost--I'd be paralyzed.
  • I also completely disagree that the web has killed editing. It has just changed the process to include the reader. It would be more accurate to say that it is killing the sanctity of Editors. 'Bout time, that.
  • The missing component in E-Reading seems to be the ability to critically grasp and evaluate the material. Learning is transmitted, but it is more linear than holistic. Now in my 70's, I find that reading from a monitor is a distancing experience. There is an intimacy to reading from a traditional book that is missing in the digital format.
  • Chinese reading circuits require more visual memory than alphabets.
  • I assume that technology will soon start moving in the natural direction: integrating chips into books, not vice versa.
  • important ongoing change to reading itself in today’s online environment is the cheapening of the word.
  • Hypertext offers loads of advantages.
  • When you read news, or blogs or fiction, you are reading one document in a networked maze
  • More and more, studies are showing how adept young people are at multitasking. But the extent to which they can deeply engage with the online material is a question for further research.
  • However, displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.
Willis Wee

Are You A Social Media Addict? SMAA Can Help [Videos] - 4 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 17 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 17 Oct 09
     
    "If you are suffering from the symptoms of a social media addict (you know what they are) and are looking for help, The Social Media Addicts Association (SMAA) might be exactly what you need."
Willis Wee

WOW: Twitter-Airtel Commercials Are Now On - 0 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 25 Oct 09
     
    A series of Airtel-Twitter commercials is now up and this would be the first time we see Twitter on a real ad!
yc c

Mozilla Labs » Raindrop » Blog Archive » Introducing Raindrop - 7 views

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shared by yc c on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • yc c on 25 Oct 09
     
    Raindrop is an effort that starts by trying to understand today's web of conversations, and aims to design an interface that helps people get a handle on their digital world. At the same time, it creates a programming interface (API) that helps designers and developers extend our work and create new systems on top of that data. We aren't trying to invent new protocols or build new messaging systems, rather focusing on building a product that lets users get a handle on the systems we already use.
Willis Wee

20 Hilarious Social Media Comic Strips - 13 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 24 Oct 09
     
    "So here's another weekend and we thought you might like another 20 social media comic strips to last you through the week!"
David Corking

Checking Twitter/Facebook: the new post-coital cigarette? - Ars Technica - 2 views

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shared by David Corking on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • there are situations in which doing so just doesn't seem like it will ever become socially acceptable, but that may change as the Facebook generation gets older and sets the new standard for what's normal to do during a date—or after sex.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 24 Oct 09
       
      What a terrifying vision of the 21st century.
Willis Wee

uSocial Offers Twitter $500,000 To Host 24 Hours Advertisement - 1 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 23 Oct 09
     
    Who would be Twitter's first advertiser?
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HOW TO: Integrate Offline and Social Media Marketing Into One - 4 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 22 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 22 Oct 09
     
    Social media marketing is effective, fun and addictive; but is your business really getting the most out of it?
Willis Wee

USERS: Our Facebook And Twitter Updates On Microsoft Bing?! - 0 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 21 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 21 Oct 09
     
    With so many cases of "security leak" in both sites, this deal has certainly put our private information on the line, again.
Willis Wee

Coca Cola "Open Happiness" Campaign Uses Social Media - 3 views

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shared by Willis Wee on 21 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Willis Wee on 21 Oct 09
     
    This time round, Coca Cola is taking an interesting and bold approach towards social media use.
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