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I know many of us place high value on online customer reviews. Think of this site as the "Urban Spoon" of software and apps. You can browse technologies by theme (creative, customers, team, productivity etc.) view screen shots and read user reviews. You can also browse compiled lists of technologies posted by users of the site. Ex. "how I manage my retail business" or "28 ideas for an awesome office" This site might be helpful exploring technologies for our research paper!

This article explores how pursuasive video games are users and is interesting in light of our discussions on technological determinism. Talks about games ability to educate and inspire change/behaviour modification in users. 

Instragram moves over to the web. At one point users who didn't have iphones or androids couldn't use this app. Wonder if it has to do with Facebook buying it? 

Awesome I am happy to know that!

"It took three years, two months and one day for the first billion tweets to be sent. From the time the company started in 2006 to mid-2009 three years, two months and one day for the first billion tweets to be sent. It has a nice rhythm that it was three, two, one. It probably wasn't exactly one day, but we like to say that; so it's three, two, one," he said. "We now send a billion tweets every two and a half days. So the volume, the noise level has increased dramatically."

Facebook is thinking of getting rid of its policy of allowing users to vote on changes to major governance policy. It also notes that a vote is only binding if 30% of users participate - a number they didn't reached in their last two votes.

VenueSeen is a new company that allows companies to use Instagram for advertising campaigns. The tool aggregates photos that have been labeled with  specific hashtag and brings [the Instagram user] to the company's campaign page.  Instagrammers can then claim their photograph and collect prizes, coupons, and other incentives the company may have put in place. Price for a campaign can range from under $1000/month to tens of thousands depending on the scope and reach of the project.

Scary report that was published today about FB users around the world seeing old privately sent messages appearing in their public timeline. Interesting from two ProCom perspectives - the virtual organization/privacy side and the PR/crisis communications FB now has to handle

Recollect essentially saves your entire digital social media trail so you never lose any post, photo, check-in or anything else all in one handy dandy place. It's like a massive dropbox for your entire social media history. What does this say about us as users that we can't stand the thought of losing anything online. This massively gives me the creeps.

Reading about this has given me a new respect for LinkedIn. It seems like it's the new Facebook (in terms of being a media darling). It also made me think about being a "prosumer" and how LinkedIn creates a win-win situation for both recruiters and users.

Another way that Facebook seems to be limiting privacy options. While they bring up a few valid points about how much the site has grown recently and the barrage of comments from users not really familiar with the issues, it is still pretty concerning to have even less control than we already do on this site

I figured this would interest most people in our class. "As Election Day nears, Twitter's new "Political Engagement Map" lets users see where people are most interested about specific issues -- at least as measured by tweeting patterns."

An interesting court case that concerns privacy over user data in social media. It also draws on the importance of social media policies in the workplace.

Really interested article about YouTube shifting from user-generated amateur content to professional content. Wonder if becoming a YouTube superstar will still exist if YouTube becomes just another TV channel?

Here is a graphic that captures a visual history of scrollbars from 1981 to the present. I point out the trend towards making the scrollbar less and less noticeable, with fewer graphical details to signal to users its function given its progressive ubiquity. The scrollbar is the visual equivalent of "More informaiton, please!"

You can now promote your posts onto your friends' news feeds by paying Facebook to do it. What does this change mean for users? I see this being used for promoting when people enter contests eventually. What will this mean for business exposure?

I thought this was interesting considering we have been talking about user generated content. Also, it is a good example of how social media has changed the way we look at major events.

An article the few PC users left in the program! Actually, as a long-time mac enthusiast, I found this article interesting because the reasons I like a Mac, are the same reasons everyone else does too, but it pointed out some interesting ProPC features that I never would have thought about.

A more informal post, but quite a handy tool for those who share in my issue of computer related ineptitude! Some great tips to keep your computer experience smooth and comfortable. 

These data shed additional light on access and use.

I mentioned Myspace a lot in the discussion for next week. Here is an example of a social media that essentially died but is trying to come back. Aggressively. The interface seems to highly draw upon Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest... Will the redesign work? Do we want a Twitter-Facebook hybrid? Or do users like having them separate? What will the new Myspace mean for communicators who use social media?