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This is a list of major active social networking websites and excludes dating websites (see List of online dating websites). For defunct social networking websites see List of defunct social networking websites

… A compass is a device for discovering orientation and serves as a true indicator of physical direction. Inspired by a moral compass, The Social Compass serves as our value system when defining our program activities. It points a brand in a physical and experiential direction to genuinely and effectively connect with customers, peers, and influencers, where they interact and seek guidance online.

TrendsSpotting Market Research has completed the release of the "2010 Influencers Series: Trend predictions in 140 characters". We have followed major trends in six of the most promising categories to dominate the web this year: Social media | Consumer Trends | Tech and IT | Online Marketing | Video | Mobile.

The map visualises the number of active bloggers, social networkers, video sharers, photo uploaders and microbloggers.

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16 Augmented Reality Business Models Visit www.personalizemedia.com/16-top-augmented-reality-busines... for more info. The purpose of this chart is to try to categorise types of business orientated augmented reality apps so to identify opportunities. The graph places 16 on axes of commercial value (likely revenue or marketing potential) vs adoption (scale of popularity vs a niche, client user base). It is a starting document to aid classification of this emerging commercial sector that I hope you find useful. The AR types, color key linked to each model is suggestive only. Uploaded by Gary Hayes on 14 Sep 09, 3.43AM CEST.

Applications like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz, Yelp and Gowalla all have the goal of connecting people who are online to offline locations where they can meet old and buid new friendships.

Inforgraphics, "extensively [used] as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians" , have exploded onto the internet in the last few years. What's so great about these aesthetic pieces of 'data reinforced gems', is their ability to paint a larger picture of what it is the creator is trying to express.

Here's a collection of terrific social media infographics that might come in handy. As you probably know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form and they act as a kind of visual shorthand, making information easy to understand and consume. They are driven by the same information as charts, but they're often a better form of communication because of their pleasant aesthetics - charts and graphs can communicate data, but infographics turn data into information.

enhancing one's current perception of reality

Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend's New York blog!

Socionomics is an interdisciplinary study of the moral, legal, and economic aspects of our social environment.

The latest edition of Measuring the Information Society features the new ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket - two benchmarking tools to measure the Information Society. The IDI captures the level of advancement of ICTs in 159 countries worldwide and compares progress made between 2002 and 2008. It also measures the global digital divide and examines how it has developed in recent years. The report also features the latest ICT Price Basket, which combines 2009 fixed telephone, mobile cellular and fixed broadband tariffs for 161 economies into one measure and compares these across countries, and over time. The analytical report is complemented by a series of statistical tables providing country-level data for all indicators included in the Index.

"Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, national flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) are analysed by a custom made Python script to calculate the proportions of colours for each of them. That information is then translated into a piechart using another Python script. The proportions of colours on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colours for all the flags combined. Colours making up less than 1% may not appear."

Phone makers should be happy: the worldwide market is enjoying strong growth in sales of phones and a boom in smartphone sales, which grew by almost 50% compared to the recession-hit first quarter last year

IBM Predictive Analytics entwickelt neues Social Media Data Mining Tool - marketing-BÖRSE News

As unconventional as this seems now, it could be the beginning a new wave of dialogue between people and their environment (let's call it e-dialogue for e-commerce).

Your digital images turn into smart visuals with kooaba's image recognition services. Using Smart Visuals enables you to explore, share and organize the things you see.

"Information visualization is not only about creating graphical displays of complex and latent information structures; it contributes to a broader range of cognitive, social, and collaborative activities. This is the first book to examine information visualization from this perspective."

Leading edge research to drive insights on social media, web usage, digital motivations, and the role for brands in the online role