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Facebook has forked out a huge sum of money to buy photo editing and sharing application Instagram. The social network, with over 800 million members worldwide, spent $1 Billion on the company popular with iPhone and now Android users. In an announcement on the company blog, Instagram said: When Mike
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This morning the Boston Police Force accredited social media for their increase in crime solving. The Boston Police Department has seen a rise in crime solving tips thanks to social media and the department’s large Twitter following. The Boston Police Force has more than 39,200 followers on Twitter.
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The Guardian’s open news TV advert shows how The Three Little Pigs story would be covered in print and online. The video charts the news story after the little pigs hit the headlines for boiling the wolf alive. Conversation moves from print to the web as the issue is
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Yesterday Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, took to the lectern at a Montreal business conference and said over-use of his micro-blogging site is bad for your health. “I like the kind of engagement where you go to the website and you leave because you’ve found what you
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3hundredand65 is a collaborative online storytelling project that's raising money to support the Teenage Cancer Trust by inviting contributors to "crowdauthor a graphic novel". Each day, a new writer progresses the story via a single Tweet to the organizers. Their tweet is then illustrated and added
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Download 672498-interhacktives-boo-3-interhacktives.mp3?keyed=true& Today's Audioboo giving us a roundup on Interhacktives is here. Recorded by Andrew Stuart, it's recorded at Spa Fields. Enjoy it! Interhacktives boo 3! @interhacktives (mp3) Enjoy, comment and post a reply audioboo. Andrew.
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Those who attended the 'Freedom of the Tweet' talk this Tuesday won't be surprised to hear that a new defamation case has been brought against Twitter. An Australian man is suing the social media giant after its service was used by TV personality Marieke Hardy to
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Social Media Week London is finally here. Still don't know what's it about and why we're on about it? Here's how the organisers put it: Reflecting the global impact of social media – and its role as a catalyst in driving cultural, economic,
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Social Media Week is a multi-city real-time conference that aims to take the global social networking conversation to the next level. As Martin Bryant explains, it's an international celebration of the way online social tools are transforming the world we live in. #SMW allows people around
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This storify aims to show an evolution of the hashtags used to tweet about Whitney Houston's death, earlier tonight.
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Building a community – by Antonia Given the community-focused content of Islington Now, we think it’s important that we identify prominent Islington tweeters, bloggers plus social media active organisations, bodies and companies. These can be as diverse as food bloggers and primary schools. We hope to have a comprehensive
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The relationship between journalists and their readership has shifted massively over the past 5-10 years. It’s now increasingly common for newspapers to employ community managers to oversee their social media presence. And reporters themselves are getting stuck into the worlds of Twitter and Facebook – exploiting both as a