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MediaShift . Social Media Plays Major Role in Motivating Malaysian Protesters | PBS - 0 views

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    Social media such as Facebook and Twitter have played a major role in motivating some of the demonstrators in the run-up to the rally, which went ahead despite a police ban and lockdown imposed on sprawling Kuala Lumpur on the eve of the July 9 protest. The demonstration organizer, Bersih 2.0 -- a coalition of 63 NGOs (non-government organizations) that wants changes such as updated electoral rolls and a longer election campaign period -- has its own Facebook page, attracting a similar number of "likes" as the page urging Najib to step down, with 190,000+ fans at the time of this posting. The latest notable update is another petition, requesting 100,000 backers for a Bersih 3.0 -- although organization head Ambiga Sreenavasan has said she does not foresee any similar protests in the immediate future.
Marc Botte

Egyptian activists organize an e-protest on Facebook and Twitter - 0 views

  • first official e-protest against the inordinate number of Egyptian citizens who have been tried in the country’s military courts in the past 6 months.
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Video: 'Africans have Facebook account before email address' - TNW - 0 views

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    Silicon Valley is a  great place to be, but I'm increasingly becoming interested in what impact technology is making in emerging markets like countries in Africa. In these markets there are bigger problems to solve than building yet another photo sharing app (think Color). I sat down with  Mbwana Alliy who works with i/o Ventures to help startups think about emerging markets. He describes himself as the bridge between Silicon Valley and the Tanzania/Kenya technology scene.
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Social media doing wonders for wool - National Rural News - Wool - General - Stock & Land - 0 views

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    The We Love Wool campaign, with its Facebook and Twitter pages, up to Tuesday this week had more than 14,000 followers since it began on June 1. Decked out in his grey wool sweater, Adrian is among more than 70 woollen garment wearers who have clicked on www.fashionbyfeelings.com to upload his "look" as part of a competition to win Sydney airfares, accommodation, a $3000 gift card and other prizes.
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Africa Social Networking/Social Media Pulse Check | Afrinnovator - 0 views

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    Africans are active participants in the social media industry, here are a few examples: Motribe - This South African company enables you to create your own mobile social network with speed and ease and offers you great social tools to power your mobile social network MXit - A South Africa-based mobile social network. Over 27 million registered users, adding over 40,000 every day. Check out this cool infographic about MXit Adloopz - An innovative Nigerian startup that puts a social twist to advertising on the internet Personera - Personera lets you create custom artifacts from your content on social networking sites like Facebook Nikohapa - A Kenyan startup that offers Foursquare-like checkins made simple and that reward you with discounts for checking in to partner stores Ushahidi - Crowdsources information using multiple channels including social networking platforms like Twitter  Swift River - An Ushahidi project that adds super data processing to data coming from sources of unstructured information such as a twitter feed Zoopy - Another South African company that focuses on mobile video ForgetMeNot Africa: bridges the huge gap between the internet and mobile messaging worlds allowing any mobile phone to send and receive email and chat message on any carriers network. Quirk eMarketing - A digital marketing agency that also helps companies make use of social media for great results. Quirk has also spawned other cool companies in social media such as BrandsEye that creates great tools for online reputation management and crowdsourcing company IdeaBounty. And as far as group buying is concerned, Groupon has inspired many an African groupon clone. There are numerous African companies playing in this area - Rupu and Zetu in Kenya, DealDey in Nigeria, and a whole lot of others in South Africa
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Social Media Around the World: Current Trends and Future Growth - Search Engine Watch (... - 1 views

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    nstant messenger applications remain the most commonly used social media in Mexico, in part due to the easy portability of the software, according to Andy Atkins-Krüger's recent WebCertain Search and Social Report 2010. Twitter and Facebook are gaining in popularity, however, with about 50 percent of online users are now active on Facebook as well. Internet access is limited to just over 25 percent of the Mexican population, so the potential for growth in this largely untapped market makes it a popular target for newer social media sites.
Marc Botte

S'inspirer de la vie réelle pour aider à prédire qui deviendra l'ami d'un aut... - 0 views

  • Dis moi où tu es allé, et je te dirais qui deviendra ton ami. Ce postulat est à la base d’une nouvelle méthode pour prédire qui peut devenir l’ami d’un autre sur les réseaux sociaux,
  • Par exemple, recommander des amis à des amis pour créer des liens sur Facebook, qui compte 750 millions d’utilisateurs actifs, est une tâche difficile. Les méthodes visent donc à faciliter la recherche de communautés et de liens possibles entre «noeuds» sur ces réseaux.
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Daily Dot | As Arab spring freshness fades, new perspective on the role of social media - 0 views

  • The impact of social media on Arab spring has been debated since protests began, and will likely be debated for several years to come. Pollack asserts, however, that efforts in Tunisia started in 1998, when Takriz was formed to advocate for free speech and started efforts to move more people online. As late as 2008, just 3,000 Tunisaians were on Facebook; by the start of this year’s riots, that had jumped to 1.97 million, or more than half of the country’s entire population.
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Veracruz proposes lesser charges for Twitter terrorism suspects - latimes.com - 0 views

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    The state of Veracruz in Mexico wants to change its penal code to apply a lower charge against the jailed Twitter and Facebook users accused of terrorism for spreading unconfirmed rumors of an attack on local schools (link in Spanish). A proposed change in Veracruz's laws would permit the government to punish the two social-networking users now behind bars, but for a lesser offense of "disruption of public order," rather than the original charges of terrorism and sabotage. Those charges carry a maximum sentence of 30 years.
Marc Botte

Tunisie : Une carte en ligne collaborative pour surveiller les élections · Gl... - 0 views

  • L'Instance  Supérieure Indépendante pour les Élections en Tunisie a mis en place une carte collaborative en ligne pour surveiller le déroulement du scrutin en Tunisie, en français et en arabe. Les citoyens tunisiens sont encouragés à signaler les irrégularités dont ils peuvent être témoins durant le scrutin qui a lieu aujourd'hui 23 octobre en Tunisie. La carte est également accessible depuis la  page d'accueil de l'Instance des élections.
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The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself - TNW Entrepreneur - 0 views

  • As a Brit who gave up cheerleading the European tech scene to make the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to live, eat and breath the world’s leading hub for technology startup innovation, I’ve been largely unimpressed and disappointed by the quality of startups here.
  • there’s only two, out of two hundred, I think are game changers. Now, don’t get me wrong, Silicon Valley is an incredibly inspiring place to be. Everyone is doing something amazing and trying to change the world, but in reality much of the technology being built here is not changing the world at all, it’s short-sighted and designed for scalability, big exits and big profits.
  • I’ve come to the conclusion that entrepreneurship in the Valley has become productized
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  • It’s never about the technology or impact it’s having, it’s about the game of entrepreneurship; getting users, funding and exiting as quickly as you can.
  • From an investor’s perspective, it’s a clever model; you put a group of extremely talented and hard working graduates together, give them seed funding, keep them lean and they pivot until they get you a hit and you make your return. But I wonder if the model is counter productive, producing risk averse entrepreneurs who, if they follow the right procedure, are almost guaranteed success in the form of a talent acquisition or exit. Should this be what entrepreneurship is about? What happened to irreverence, thinking outside the box, wanting to make a difference in the long run?
  • the gold-rush mentality.
  • there is innovation happening around health care related startups
  • One of the reasons for lack of innovation in the Valley is that entrepreneurs are not exposed to enough real-world problems.
  • consumers in the USA clearly want to play Angry Birds, whereas in some African countries consumers are more likely to be searching for their nearest Malaria drugs clinic.
  • you wouldn’t even imagine
  • many entrepreneurs can’t get to the US because of visa issues
  • Startup Chile
  • There is one thing though, that continues to set Silicon Valley apart from every other technology hub on the planet and that’s access to finance.
  • But the funding landscape is changing due to the cost of innovation decreasing rapidly which means anyone with a laptop and a WiFi connection can get an idea off the ground for dirt cheap.
  • Geeks on a Plane
  • i/O ventures
  • more media should cover tech outside the Valley
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From Nieman Reports: How social media has challenged old media in the Middle ... - 0 views

  • York, director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, writes about how the role of Facebook and Twitter in spreading information continues to evolve after the Arab Spring.
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A Pékin et à Moscou, le grand soir 2.0 n'est pas pour demain - INTERNET - FRA... - 0 views

  • Les réseaux sociaux ont joué un rôle essentiel dans la mobilisation des populations lors des révolutions arabes. La Chine et la Russie, deux régimes réputés pour leur autoritarisme, auraient pu en ressentir l’onde de choc. Il n’en est rien…
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