Klout announced a new scoring model today which they state "represents the biggest step forward in accuracy, transparency and our technology in Klout’s history." This new scoring model may have changed your Klout score. I noticed mine went down a little, but there wasn't a huge change. For those of us who did see our ...

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Facebook CTO Bret Taylor responded to the oft repeated maxim ("meme" is what he called it) that Facebook privacy settings are needlessly complex by asserting that "the majority of people on Facebook have modified their privacy settings" in a conversation with John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit today.

"If you talk to college students they know what their parents can see, they know what their ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend can see." (I heard a "Yeah right" emanate from the audience when he said this) [...]

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By now everyone has probably seen the new Facebook changes. I’ll admit that I’m not an avid Facebook user, so it feels like every time I log on to the site I’m bombarded by something new that makes me wish for the old days when you had to have an .edu email address to use the site. Ah, simpler times. But I understand why Facebook had to evolve. If not, it would get left behind. As this Fox News Chicago article pointed out:& [...]

Read More: What if Social Media Never Changed?

Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What's New This Week? Social media channels this week were among the first to reveal the passing of one of the world's greatest innovators—Steve [...]

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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Credit I remember walking down the hallway of my high school – just another day, didn't want to go to history class. I walk in with a few other classmates and see my teacher standing in front of the television with his arms crossed. What is going on? I [...]

Read More: Remembering 9/11: Where Were You When America Changed Forever?

The tenth anniversary of September 11 is approaching and to pay tribute to those affected by the tragedy around the world, the New York Times and YouTube have launched a September 11 YouTube channel featuring special content from the New York Times, archived broadcasts from September 2001, and personal stories and tributes, and they want you to share your 9/11 story.


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Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesperson for WikiLeaks (photo by JD Lasica)   WikiLeaks official criticizes New York Times before international group of journalists WikiLinks has changed the role of journalism and "made journalists braver," Kristinn Hrafnsson, the official spokesperson for WikiLeaks, told an international group of journalists assembled in Santiago, Chile, on Thursday. Braver, that is, with [...]

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10 years ago the restaurant industry was simple. Once every couple of months a food critic would come along and you would cook your best food and await the review in the newspaper with baited breath. Then restaurant review sites came along and changed all that. Anybody could leave a review but they were mostly biased and for the most part the system didn’t work that well. Now things have changed completely.It’s all down to mobiles, apps and social media and restaurants are faced with a new wave [...]

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