Last weekend Paranormal Activity 3 broke box office records when they closed the largest grossing weekend of all time for horror movies, and the biggest October opening ever, at a whopping $54 million.  How did they do it?  It looks like social media, and more specifically Twitter, played an important role in building major buzz that led to this horror flick’s record-breaking weekend.


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Original Fitbit (top) and new Fitbit Ultra (bottom).Fitbit released their second generation wireless activity monitor this week. The Fitbit Ultra replaces the original Fitbit activity tracker I've been using for nearly a year and a half now. The Fitbit Ultra adds an altimeter that adds the ability to track floors climbed in addition to step count. The new device also adds more functions in firmware.


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It might seem a tad bit overwhelming with all the recent changes that have occurred on Facebook and there is still more to come. Most recently, Facebook has enabled friends to see other “friend’s activities” on Facebook Pages. This means that people on Facebook can have a clearer view of what is said about pages [...]

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Ever wondered what your friends were doing on the Facebook Pages that you both like? Wonder no longer, because Facebook has just introduced a new tab to the sidebar of Pages that will show Friend Activity:So while you might have been seeing your friends' activity in your sidebar Ticker (hate that? You can disable it.), the new tab will show you precisely what they've been doing on a Page, and it's a bit easier to follow than a quickly-scrolling feed.We're told that there's a few types of content [...]

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‘Checking in' to TV shows and other forms of media quickly evolved from the success of location-based services like Foursquare. However, it's not quite captured the public's imagination in quite the same way. Now prominent media checkin service GetGlue has published some new stats which show that perhaps it would be wrong to write off the idea just yet.The startup says that June, July and August this year combined saw a 130% increase in the number of checkins being made by its users, helpi [...]

Read More: Media checkins more than a fad? GetGlue see 130% growth in activity in 3 months

I've been wearing and using the Fitbit wireless activity tracker for well over a year now. And, in that time I've found the the information it provides beyond a daily step counts to be invaluable information and motivation. The fitbit provides estimated activity based on the kind of movement it detects as you walk, run or otherwise move about. It also provides summary information such as average number of steps walked per day.


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The latest attempt to sort through the clutter of available online news content is version 2.0 of News360, an app for the iPad, the iPhone, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Windows Phone and Android devices, and the Web that uses semantic analysis to analyze users’ activity on social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, and Evernote to select relevant news.

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If it is one thing we've learned from the social network boom, it is that people are fascinated by numbers: Number of followers on Twitter. Number of check-ins on Foursquare. Number of people in Google+ Circles. The ultimate in numbers is, of course, numbers about yourself. I've been using a Fitbit wireless activity tracking device for over a year now.Fitbit Wireless Activity Tracker Initial Impressions (May 2010)The Fitbit, which already has a number of competing products, is about [...]

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