Pinboard: bookmarks for fjordaan tagged 'social'

Medical Research and Treatment Information from Medify.com

Evidence from Real Patients
Helping you make the most informed decisions.

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november 2011 by fjordaan

Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief - storify.com

A man's laptop is stolen, but he's able to track it remotely and with the help of social media, recover it. (NSFW language. More story links at bottom.)

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june 2011 by fjordaan

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Phatic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In linguistics, a phatic expression (pronounced /ˈfætɨk/) is one whose only function is to perform a social task, as opposed to conveying information.[1] The term was coined by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in the early 1900s.

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january 2011 by fjordaan

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Bobby Owsinski's Big Picture Blog

Bobby Owsinski is an author, producer, and a music and technical consultant

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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5 Ways Social Media Helps Promote Good Health

Finding the right balance between individual privacy rights and community benefit will, however, require online services to thread regulatory needles and provide clear guidance to users about how their information will be used. Below are five examples of online services, platforms or projects that are working to strike that balance, providing a means for patients and citizens to share their experiences.

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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kevnull's Profile • Raptr

Raptr is a social utility that makes it easier to play games with friends. With Raptr you can track your gaming activity and chat in-game across all major IM networks in one buddy list, including AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, Xfire, ICQ, Facebook Chat and Xbox Live.

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july 2010 by fjordaan

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The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging [Updated] — Global Nerdy

You’ve probably seen many articles on companies and organizations saying that they take social media seriously. Here’s one such organization that you might not expect: the United States Air Force. Take a look at the Air Force Blog Assessment chart, reproduced below:

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february 2010 by fjordaan

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A people pattern - Bobulate

When contacting any person for the first time, there’s a pattern, whether getting in touch by email, by phone, or in person:

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december 2009 by fjordaan

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On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. But they can smell a marketer from a mile away.

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november 2009 by fjordaan

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JS-Kit ECHO

the next generation commenting system. It’s the way to share your content, and watch the live reaction. You can quickly embed Echo on WordPress, Blogger, or any website and turn your static pages into a real-time stream of diggs, tweets, comments and more.

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september 2009 by fjordaan

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apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7% have "pass along value"; 5.85% are self-promotional; 3.75% are spam; and ::gasp:: only 3.6% are news.

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september 2009 by fjordaan

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Slowpoke Comics: A Pixelated Past

"Tell us about the olden days!" "Yeah, what was life like in 2009?"

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may 2009 by fjordaan

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gary vaynerchuk » I had a wild day, you? Turning negatives into positives! - my 2 minute take on life

I hope you enjoy this video, It recaps a very wild experience I had with Corkd.com, seesmic.com, techcrunch.com and twitter.com and a few others.

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january 2009 by fjordaan

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Aza’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use

If you could detect which social bookmarking sites your reader uses, on a per-reader basis, you could display only the badges they care about. But you can’t know that because the browser secures the user’s history, right? Wrong.

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may 2008 by fjordaan

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The coolest products used by your favorite celebrities. All spotted by you. | Coolspotters

Coolspotters associates celebrities with virtually anything.

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may 2008 by fjordaan

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Wakoopa - Software gone social

Wakoopa tracks what kind of software or games you use, and lets you create your own software profile. Ready for you to share with the world. Why? Because what you use on your desktop is who you are!

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may 2008 by fjordaan

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WatchMouse web site monitoring service - Social networking sites slow and inaccessible

In recent research, WatchMouse found that many of the world's largest online social networks have poor site performance, leaving users waiting for sites to load or encountering errors. Of the 104 sites monitored, the immensely popular Facebook (facebook.com) site was the worst performer; recording a slow load time and more errors than any other monitored site.

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january 2008 by fjordaan

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Coding Horror: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about the failure of Kuro5hin, which was originally designed to address perceived problems with the slashdot model

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december 2007 by fjordaan

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Making your social networking data portable

Marking up profiles and friends with microformats

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december 2007 by fjordaan

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Group Recipes

Food Social Network

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november 2007 by fjordaan

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NetVouz: Bookmark You

Tossing its hat into the social bookmark ring is NetVouz. NetVouz is competing with nearly one hundred already existing social bookmakring sites, including del.icio.us, Furl , Reddit and StumbleUpon.