Do your Facebook friends know where you are? If you’re like 1 in 4 Americans, they probably do. According to a new report released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, location based social media is being used by 28% of American adults.


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If leaves can have a social network, why not cars? And, what if this network could reduce the amount of fuel your car burns by 20%? That's what researchers at MIT and Princeton found when a smartphones mounted on car dashboards were used to form a network that collected information about traffic lights and advised drivers to slow down to avoid waiting at red lights.


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Do you wonder how to get your content seen amidst a sea of information? What if you could understand why your audience shares some information and not other? That would make your content stand out from the competition. The Science of Sharing 30 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook each month, including blog [...]

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They are practically brothers; Facebook and Yahoo join forces to test the “six degree of separation” theory, and you can participate.


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You've probably seen or read about apps and services that aggregate photos to get multiple perspectives of a single place or event at a place. You may also be familiar with projects that rely on people donating a portion of their computer's time for massively difficult problems like detecting an extra-terrestrial signal or protein folding. Researchers at Rice University have combined these concepts to provide a way to search photos stored locally on smartphones to find objects (including people [...]

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TouchStudio is a on-device programming environment for Windows Phone developed and published by Microsoft Research. This still-in-beta product got a major upgrade this week to version 2.0 as well as a new name – TouchDevelop.


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Tweet Have you wondered, "How often should I post articles on my blog?" or "How does my social media reach impact lead generation and traffic?"Two brand-new studies by HubSpot and Edison Research provide fresh insights on these important questions. Consider these five findings as you enhance your social media and blogging strategies.#1: More frequent blog posts [...]

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Why we share is just as important—arguably more important—than what we share. While research that addresses the what abounds, there aren’t many studies dedicated to the why of content sharing. The New York Times teamed up with Latitude Research to fill this gap in our knowledge with a new study, The Psychology of Sharing, which [...]

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