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The Catholic Church will not survive 2012 - Web Bot Predictions Coast to Coast am - April 01 2010

What people will be talking about on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and LinkedIn? Bernardo Huberman, director of HP Labs Social Computing Resarch Group, claims to have created a formula to predict people's behavior tendencies on social networks. The physicist introduced the formulas in a lecture in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. One of his main tools is Twitter. According to Huberman, the level of attention a subject gains at the microblog determines how much it would spread and how big the revenue can be

Online education is on the rise in Brazil. A new survey by the Inep (National Institute of Studies and Educational Surveys) reveals the profile of the Brazilian online university students. The study says that 15 percent of all university students use Distance Education as online education is called in the country...