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Social media trends for 2011 from HBR. Worth a look, even if you don't agree with many of them (like me). I do think these trends have a distorted bias towards business and that misses the point really. There is also a growing push-back against Facebook that is ignored by this analysis from the US.

Kaggle is a web app for outsourcing statistical and analytics to data scientists who compete to produce solutions to the problems presented by users with their data. It's crowdsourcing for data analysis from computer science to economics to physics. Even NASA is using Kaggle.

The RIN has completed a second series of case studies to provide a detailed analysis of how humanities' researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources.

Citation analysis tool for researchers to prove the impact of their research. Particularly good for people in the arts, humanities, engineering and mathmatics.

Analysis, debate and news about academic journals and publishing from The Conversation.

Good for those using qualitative methods in their research. He is a believer in simple is good when it comes to research design.

New uni-based site that bridges the academic/journalist divide. A site to watch for interested researchers.