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Tuesday: May 11, 2010

Popular Today:
IBM pulls the curtain back on brand new social media analytics tool.
IBM pulls the curtain back on brand new social media analytics tool.

This new software will allow companies, marketing groups, and advertisers to track 'consumer sentiment' on various social networks. Just one more thing to be be aware of as you romp through daily social networking sites. It can even analyze product names, industry jargon, slang, even emoticons. :-/

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Scary @ 10:01 AM | Tags (10) | analytics | debut | ibm | mashable | media | reporting | social | software | tool | trends |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 10 Clicks


The top eleven signs that Facebook has violated your privacy.
The top eleven signs that Facebook has violated your privacy.

If any of the aforementioned signs from this link have happened to you it might be a good time close out your Facebook account. If you're still unsure, check rule number one on the list before proceeding.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Funny @ 5:27 AM | Tags (7) | facebook | bbspot | privacy | social | networking | violations | markzuckerburg |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 68 Clicks


Tuesday: April 20, 2010

Popular Today:
Facebook now accounts for 41% of all social media traffic according to comScore stats.
Facebook now accounts for 41% of all social media traffic according to comScore stats.

As of March 2010, Facebook traffic made up 41% of all traffic on a list of popular social destinations. MySpace was in second place, capturing around 24% of traffic. Gmail had 15%, and Twitter had 8%.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 12:05 PM | Tags (11) | interwebs | facebook | myspace | mashable | traffic | comscore | stats | gmail | twitter | social | networking |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 9 Clicks


Thursday: April 15, 2010

Popular Today:
Entire Twitter archive to be included in Library of Congress digital assets collection.
Entire Twitter archive to be included in Library of Congress digital assets collection.

The addition of Twitter into the organization's offerings could foster an enormous amount of academic research. From a new kind of historical record to an unprecedented opportunity for discovering patterns of social interaction, this is big.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 2:52 PM | Tags (13) | academic | archive | congress | historical | interaction | library | patterns | records | research | social | tweets | twitter | readwriteweb |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 9 Clicks


Monday: April 12, 2010

Popular Today:
The Human Tetris Project just might be the next big social networking gaming craze.
The Human Tetris Project just might be the next big social networking gaming craze.

Link points to a video over on ABC's website which goes over exactly what you'll be getting yourself into should you decide to take part in said project. It's an interesting concept and partnership between EA Games and Facebook. Definetly needs more Music A though.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Fun @ 11:42 AM | Tags (8) | blocks | craze | faces | gaming | networking | social | tetris | video |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 13 Clicks


Monday: March 22, 2010

Popular Today:
Brand new Apple patent may pave the way for their very own social network.
Brand new Apple patent may pave the way for their very own social network.

Yes, you may be getting your iSocial on in the near future thanks to this little patent that Apple has put forth specifically for the iPhone. Behind the scenes your iPhone passes tokens around to correspond with users in your immediate vicinity and let's you connect with them (either digitally or realistically).

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Apple @ 5:56 AM | Tags (9) | adhoc | geographic | iphone | location | media | mobile | networking | patent | social |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 14 Clicks


Friday: March 19, 2010

Popular Today:
Netflix decides to do away with that friends feature that nobody used.
Netflix decides to do away with that friends feature that nobody used.

Maybe this would have worked better had they tried to incorporate into - I don't know, a popular social network perhaps? Seems like the right place where friends would want to exchange information about the types of movies they happen to be renting at the time. Maybe that's just me.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Dumb @ 6:12 AM | Tags (7) | discarded | dumb | features | friends | netflix | networking | social |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 14 Clicks


Monday: March 15, 2010

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The folks at Digg would like you to know that a redesign is coming in the near future.
The folks at Digg would like you to know that a redesign is coming in the near future.

Wow, I haven't used Digg in a long, long time (reddit ftw) but I'm quite curious to see what new 'radical features' they have in store. One of the key changes according to the source article is an unlimited number of topics (aka subreddits). How original.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 5:48 AM | Tags (8) | digg | news | social | networking | reddit | features | radical | sxsw |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 7 Clicks


Tuesday: March 9, 2010

Popular Today:
Location services might be coming to your Facebook account in near future.
Location services might be coming to your Facebook account in near future.

Soon you'll know exactly where all of your friends are and where you can find them. Isn't it great when mystical items from movies and books somehow make their way into real life? It's almost like magic.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 2:34 PM | Tags (10) | facebook | location | geotagging | services | maruadersmap | friends | account | social | networking | harrypotter |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 7 Clicks


Thursday: March 4, 2010

Popular Today:
Escaped monkey manages to make time for several Facebook appearances.
Escaped monkey manages to make time for several Facebook appearances.

Facebook: the only place where you can find photos of an escaped monkey and then read posts by that same monkey as he taunts the authorities. Is there anything social networking can't do?

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Strange @ 3:31 PM | Tags (7) | authorities | azcentral | escaped | monkey | networking | social | taunts |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 20 Clicks


Monday: March 1, 2010

Popular Today:
Facebook's recently awarded news-feed patent could spell trouble for other social sites.
Facebook's recently awarded news-feed patent could spell trouble for other social sites.

Twitter is effectively one giant news feed, to the extent that it clearly has influenced some of the changes that Facebook made to its own feed technology. That reaction could be alarmist. And yet prominent figures elsewhere in the social-media world don't seem thrilled.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 5:28 AM | Tags (8) | facebook | copyright | patent | lawsuits | cnet | social | networking | reform |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 9 Clicks


Thursday: February 18, 2010

Popular Today:
New website exposes the dangers of improper social network usage.
New website exposes the dangers of improper social network usage.

In a nutshell, a third party service posts your location status via Twitter. Someone managed to aggregate that content into one easy website for the entire world to see.  A happy day for burglars round the world.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 5:49 AM | Tags (7) | robbery | social | networking | dangers | bbc | pleaserobme | twitter |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 18 Clicks


Wednesday: February 17, 2010

Popular Today:
Microsoft to bring MySpace and Facebook into Outlook.
Microsoft to bring MySpace and Facebook into Outlook.

I foresee this particular move as something that will greatly increase the productivity of every corporate employee that happens to use Microsoft Outlook as their primary email program.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Silly @ 5:58 AM | Tags (7) | productivity | work | outlook | facebook | myspace | social | networking |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 8 Clicks


Tuesday: February 16, 2010

Popular Today:
Google decides to modify Buzz platform after some specific privacy issues come to light.
Google decides to modify Buzz platform after some specific privacy issues come to light.

And before Google made the latest changes, who's in those circles could easily be exposed to others without the user even realizing it. Suddenly your boss could discover that you've been corresponding with a rival company that happens to have some job openings.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Google @ 5:37 AM | Tags (9) | google | buzz | social | networking | privacy | issues | public | yahoo | open |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 10 Clicks


Friday: February 12, 2010

Popular Today:
Twelve undocumented tricks you can use in Google Buzz.
Twelve undocumented tricks you can use in Google Buzz.

Have you gotten enough Google Buzz lately? If you're still on the fence or just want to tinker with it some more some more with it, some of this tricks are an interesting waste of time (as is my genaral feeling with social networking). And yes, one of the tricks includes turning it off.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Google @ 5:39 AM | Tags (8) | aext | buzz | google | networking | social | tips | tricks | undocumented |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 48 Clicks


Wednesday: February 10, 2010

Popular Today:
Google takes a big step into the social networking arena with new service.
Google takes a big step into the social networking arena with new service.

Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It's built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there's always been a big social network underlying Gmail.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Google @ 8:59 AM | Tags (12) | buzz | facebook | friends | geolocations | gmail | google | integration | networking | people | social | tagging | twitter |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 25 Clicks


Wednesday: December 9, 2009

Popular Today:
Dell would like you to know they made $6.5 million in sales via Twitter.
Dell would like you to know they made $6.5 million in sales via Twitter.

Dell now considers Twitter to be a 'significant new channel' in which to reach customers. If Twitter landed me a couple million in sales I'm guessing that I'd think it would be pretty significant as well.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 5:47 AM | Tags (9) | business | computers | dell | interwebs | microblogs | millions | sales | social | twitter |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 6 Clicks


Monday: December 7, 2009

Popular Today:
Five 2009 predicitions that widely missed the mark.
Five 2009 predicitions that widely missed the mark.

A slew of nutty tech predictions that as the headline states, were just way off. Google is still quite strong, 2009 was certainly not the last year of the retail CD (thanks in part to The Beatles remasters), and no - we're not immortal yet.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Technology @ 5:46 AM | Tags (7) | 2009 | betanews | cds | immortal | media | predictions | social |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 33 Clicks


Tuesday: November 24, 2009

Popular Today:
Introduction of social media on the Xbox 360 seems to have gone over quite well.
Introduction of social media on the Xbox 360 seems to have gone over quite well.

About two million users decide to give Facebook a whirl along with about half a million brand new Last.fm accounts in the first twenty-four hours alone. I'd say that those are some pretty good numbers.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Video Games @ 12:21 PM | Tags (8) | facebook | friends | gamasutra | gaming | lastfm | networks | social | videogames |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 7 Clicks


Wednesday: September 30, 2009

Popular Today:
Google Wave application to be handed out to beta testers today.
Google Wave application to be handed out to beta testers today.

In Wave, e-mail-like communications can be edited by several users simultaneously. And users can chat about certain sections of Wave documents in real time, where all users see what a person is typing as it is typed.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Google @ 6:43 AM | Tags (7) | google | wave | application | email | social | testing | testers |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 12 Clicks


Friday: September 25, 2009

Popular Today:
New study shows that time spent on social networks has tripled since last year.
New study shows that time spent on social networks has tripled since last year.

You probably have Facebook open in another tab next to this one don't you? DON'T YOU?

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 4:02 PM | Tags (8) | social | networking | nielsen | time | facebook | myspace | study | research |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 10 Clicks


Tuesday: September 22, 2009

Popular Today:
Facebook teams up with Nielsen to gather up advertising statistics.
Facebook teams up with Nielsen to gather up advertising statistics.

While Facebook has been growing in prominence as a digital ad destination, it's still had to do some convincing to combat the industry attitude that social-media advertising doesn't work.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 6:39 AM | Tags (8) | ads | facebook | internet | networking | nielsen | social | surveys | tracking |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 5 Clicks


Monday: September 21, 2009

Popular Today:
Ten revealing infographics concerning the Interwebs.
Ten revealing infographics concerning the Interwebs.

A collection of interesting graphs covering a variety of Internet related stuff from social networking popularity to the use of submarine cables for Internet access. Quite revealing indeed.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 6:54 AM | Tags (9) | blogs | graphs | internet | interwebs | networks. communities | posting | revealing | sixrevisions | social |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 29 Clicks


Wednesday: September 16, 2009

Popular Today:
Facebook would like you to know that they are now cash-flow positive.
Facebook would like you to know that they are now cash-flow positive.

Oh, and they also have hit the three hundred million user mark as well. All hail Facebook.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 7:53 AM | Tags (8) | facebook | social | network | users | cash | profits | interwebs | latimes |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 8 Clicks


Friday: September 11, 2009

Popular Today:
Twitter revises terms of service to make way for more advertising.
Twitter revises terms of service to make way for more advertising.

Some analysts are skeptical that advertising will catch on in a meaningful way on social networks, arguing that companies are reluctant to juxtapose their brands with unpredictable, and potentially offensive, user-generated content.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 6:49 AM | Tags (8) | advertising | networks | offensive | service | social | terms | twitter | unpredicatable |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 5 Clicks


Thursday: August 27, 2009

Popular Today:
Hand drawn portraits are the latest craze in social networking.
Hand drawn portraits are the latest craze in social networking.

Some avid social-network users are commissioning artists to create small digital images to represent themselves in the online world. Other Internet-savvy people use automated computer programs and Web sites to generate posterized likenesses of themselves.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Silly @ 1:33 PM | Tags (6) | avatars | facebook | networking | portraits | social | trends |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 31 Clicks


Thursday: July 30, 2009

Popular Today:
A writeup on what Twitter and Facebook can learn from Phish.
A writeup on what Twitter and Facebook can learn from Phish.

...there is a kernel of history set aside for Phish as pioneers in both music distribution and in creating a web community. When we look at bands and artists that foster community (and sometimes endless jams), we can see parallels to the rise of social networks.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interesting @ 12:29 PM | Tags (6) | phish | social | media | networks | twitter | facebook |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 10 Clicks


Thursday: July 16, 2009

Popular Today:
Five signs that you probably suffer from a Facebook addiction.
Five signs that you probably suffer from a Facebook addiction.

Remember, the first step to on the road to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Scary @ 12:16 PM | Tags (7) | addiction | conditions | facebook | scary | signs | social | warning |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 62 Clicks


Friday: July 10, 2009

Popular Today:
State of New York suing social-networking site for spamming sixty million people.
State of New York suing social-networking site for spamming sixty million people.

Tagged, which has been around for five years, would then illegally get access to those new users' e-mail address books and send out more messages without those users' knowledge. Tagged will be sued for deceptive e-mail marketing practices and invasion of privacy, the office said.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Interwebs @ 1:10 PM | Tags (9) | email | fraud | lawsuit | networking | newyork | privacy | security | social | spam |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 7 Clicks


Tuesday: July 7, 2009

Popular Today:
Yes, social security numbers can be predicted according to new report.
Yes, social security numbers can be predicted according to new report.

...researchers analyzed Social Security numbers of people who have died to detect statistical patterns in the assignment of numbers. They were then able to use those patterns to predict a range of values likely to include a living person's Social Security number.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Security @ 6:17 AM | Tags (7) | analyst | crack | id | report | security | social | statistical |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 9 Clicks


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