Tag Archives: Social Media

7 Platforms Changing the Future of News & Publishing

By C.G. | Published: June 28, 2011

While the social media world drools over Twitter’s latest ‘Newsrooms’ product announcement, Kristin Butler has compiled a list of seven websites that could add additional disruption to the news and publishing industries. None of the sites she lists out are classic social media sites like Facebook or Twitter; each appear to be a fresh take [...]

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A Week on Foursquare

By C.G. | Published: May 19, 2011

The WSJ has a really cool time-lapse visualization of Foursquare checkins for New York and San Francisco. You have to go to the full site for all the fantastic data it displays. It includes the number of checkins per hour, the heat map (like above), the top 80 categories by checkin, the number of venues [...]

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Stunning Social Infographics

By C.G. | Published: July 1, 2010

Mashable lists 10 beautiful social media infographics.

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Hotmail Gets Pushy

By C.G. | Published: April 30, 2010

Microsoft is adding enabling push notifications to Hotmail through its Excahnge ActiveSync features. Yahoo has had push email for the longest time and Google recently enabled it some months ago. They’re also adding some social networking features, too. Its nice to see Microsoft, um, innovating again. Coming soon to Hotmail, push email for mobile phones [...]

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Cool Data Visualizations

By C.G. | Published: February 21, 2010

From Google Buzz, founder & CEO of Seesmic, Loic Le Meur, shared a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing the visualization of Twitter’s stream. Its a fascinating read just for the inferences one can get from the data. The article uses different trend analysis projects like Twitter Spectrum, TwitterVenn, and StreamGraphs to highlight comparisons between [...]

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