The UK Leads Europe In Social Networking
Close to half of all people in the UK will be members of a social networking site within four years, a new…
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Close to half of all people in the UK will be members of a social networking site within four years, a new…
StumbleUpon has been around a while, and if you're like 5 million others, you understand what an addictive, stimulus-response type network it really is. But like with other social networks such as Digg, Twitter, or Facebook, many marketers are still at a loss for how to make the most of it.
Actually, this article is more of a commentary on collective mental illness, exploitation and mountains made of molehills—no, that's not a boob joke. It's also about invented controversy for the sake of ogling eyeballs and links at the expense of a teenage girl who will be lucky if she's not in rehab on her 18th birthday.
Any event that involves free pizza and beer can't be bad, but a recent Yahoo-sponsored get-together seemed especially successful, and this could bode well for the company's location-based Fire Eagle service.
Ready, set, get out the disinfectant. When researchers tested keyboards in a "typical" London office, one of them was removed and quarantined because it was five times as filthy as the office toilet. Bet that guy's popular now.
The Washington Post pokes around a few MySpace and Facebook profiles of young school teachers and shares the apparently disturbing results.