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How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates [INFOGRAPHIC]

A new social network, called Jig, aims to be a place where users do more than just share personal news or play games. It's a hangout where they can help solve one another's problems.

Jig was founded by Joshua Schachter, the creator of the social bookmarking site Del.icio.us,

Social bed and breakfast marketplace Airbnb started the week on a high note by confirming that it had raised a large $112 million second round of funding that pushed the startup’s valuation to an estimated $1.3 billion. Just days later, the company’s reputation spiraled down after social link sharing community Hacker News caught wind of an Airbnb user’s emotional account of merciless renters, who ransacked her apartment and turned her entire life upside down.

5,800 Berkeley freshmen and transfer students are asked to record their voices and accents, which will be mapped and compared to other students' samples. The project is part linguistic experiment, part social science and part ice-breaker.

the purpose of the experiment was to see if consolidating and streamlining all social activity into Google+ was possible and, if so, desirable.

I was able to answer my two questions on day one ... Yes, it's possible, and yes, it's desirable.

Involver is the solution of choice for the world’s biggest brands trying to connect with customers on social networks

Dribbble is show and tell for creatives. Designers, developers and other creatives share shots—small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on.
Shots are small screenshots (400×300 pixels max) from players to show what they are working on. Some have called Dribbble "Twitter for creatives." Shots are to Dribbble as tweets are to Twitter.

create and explore a visual archive of your social life.

the largest and fastest growing independent Social Business Software company in the world. Our next-generation software is the only truly enterprise-scale social business solution on the market. Our platform integrates the best features of social networking, collaboration software, community software, and social media monitoring to extend a layer of social capabilities across every level of your business.

Gnip provides social media data to businesses that build realtime social media integrations into their business and consumer applications. Receiving your social data from Gnip enables easy integration of massive quantities of realtime social data into your product, legally and reliably. Many of the largest social media monitoring companies in the world rely on Gnip to provide them with data from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and dozens more sources. Whether you want keyword-specific data, username-specific data, or a full or partial firehose stream of data, Gnip can be your social media data provider.

With Facebook playing a starring role in the revolts that toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, you might think the company’s top executives would use this historic moment to highlight its role as the platform for democratic change. Instead, they really do not want to talk about it

The growth of social media adoption is not only continuing but accelerating at break neck speed. Social Media U helps business owners and sales professionals leverage social media for their day to day business activities. It seems like there is general agreement among social media users/evangelists/consultants that education is crucial. Social Media University has clear goals in mind with each and every student

To combat social media, another important weapon for the demonstrators, outside experts and people living in the country say the government has coordinated a blockage of certain communications websites and unplugged internet access entirely to parts of the country.

Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML.

The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter and social media.

What is PledgeMusic?
PledgeMusic is where artists and fans work together with charities to make music for change.

There's a site called Spokeo.com that's a new online USA phone book w/personal information: everything from pics you've posted on FB or web, your approx credit score, home value, income, age, etc. You can remove yourself by searching for yourself on their site, copying the URL of your page, then going to http://www.spokeo.com/privacy to remove yourself.

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.

Chris Hughes, a Facebook founder, has launched Jumo, a social network that aims to connect donors and their charities, rather than facilitate donations.

Jumo.com launched in beta on Tuesday, a Facebook-style site that allows users to "follow" charities and causes

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

February 12, 2010: Aardvark joins Google! Read all about it…
"Tap the knowledge of people in your network!'

Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania initiates 'blackout' of all social networking sites to discover effects of multitasking

The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network.

Control Your Image: Women Musicians Seize On Social Media

Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media
Richard Coyne

How do pervasive digital devices—smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and cameras, among others—influence the way we use spaces? In The Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these ubiquitous devices and the networks that support them become the means of making incremental adjustments within spaces—of tuning place.

Goodreads is a free website for book lovers. Imagine it as a large library that you can wander through and see everyone's bookshelves, their reviews, and their ratings. You can also post your own reviews and catalog what you have read, are currently reading, and plan to read in the future. Don’t stop there – join a discussion group, start a book club, contact an author, and even post your own writing.

A Peer Group for Baltimore Social Entrepreneurs.

Created by and for Baltimore Social Entrepreneurs working to make Baltimore a better city to live, work, and grow in. Creating change in Baltimore made easier.

Discover the cause you’re passionate about on Members Project® from American Express, in partnership with TakePart.
Get involved. Take a first step. Be a part of it.

Social networks will become a fundamental way we communicate with our governments, businesses and loved ones, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has told the BBC.

Fast Company undertook a whistle-stop analysis of Ternovskiy's words to discover whether he and his site will make a mint out of the Internet.

Confused on what Digg was and will soon be? The aggregator in chief helps us understand how he plans to make his all-new site a must-have for social Web surfers.

popularity is taking a backseat to personalization.

New Model Captures Spread of Personal Information through Social Networks
If you ever share personal information with friends online you probably already use a special set of rules to determine what to reveal and what to keep secret. Now a new model of social networks attempts to capture that process.

ChatRoulette is a new website that connects you face to face with Internet users around the world. When you go to the site and hit Play your webcam turns on and you’re connected to another person. Most times you’ll hit Next within a few seconds and be connected to someone else. Sometimes people stop to chat. Basically, instead of surfing the web, you’re surfing people.

My name is danah boyd and I am a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I recently completed my PhD at the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California (Berkeley). My research examines social media, youth practices, tensions between public and private, social network sites, and other intersections between technology and society.

On the web, I'm known for two things: maintaining an Ani DiFranco lyrics site and blogging prolifically. Personally, I love music, dancing, politics, reading, and all things fuzzy. At my core, I'm an activist and a scholar.

Where Innovation and Creativity Converge

My name is danah boyd. In addition to being an expert on social media, I am a doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Evoke is a crash course in changing the world. Play your way through EVOKE's quests to learn all about social entrepreneurship.

EVOKE is free to play and open to anyone, anywhere.
The game begins on March 3, 2010. Players can join the game at any time.

Cuil indexes your Facebook network and produces results based on your social connections.

We are a movement for a new generation fighting social and global injustice

TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you're interested in.

Today as citizens of the world, we face a daunting array of social and environmental problems ranging from health care and education to global warming and economic inequality. For each of these issues, whether local or global in scope, there are millions of people who care passionately about working for change but lack the information and opportunities necessary to translate their interest into effective action.

Change.org aims to address this need by serving as the central platform informing and empowering movements for social change around the most important issues of our time.

iGoogle, a personalized homepage that competes with My Yahoo, My MSN, My AOL, Netvibes and others, will release19 new in-house and third party iGoogle widgets today that add new social and sharing features to users of the service.

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myExperiment, the social networking site for scientists, has set out to challenge traditional ideas of academic publishing as it enters a new phase of funding.

The purpose of this program is to facilitate more interaction between Google and academia and also nurture stronger relations and partnerships with universities. The intent of the awards is to support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly). Awards through this program are typically for one year in the range from $10K-$150K.

Three students hope to spark a million good deeds this year, starting with a phone: student entrepreneurs at the University of Michigan think they can use their phones to make the world a better place, one download at a time.