New From Facebook For Facebook: A Messaging Only App (Facebook Messenger)
From mocoNews: As it has rolled out a series of improvements to its messaging features, Facebook has been trying to encourage its users to think of its network as a better alternative to e-mail and...
View ArticleNew from OCLC Research: "Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums...
Title: Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Part 1: Site Reviews Authors: Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research and Cyndi Shein, Getty Research Institute Metadata helps users locate...
View ArticleSocial Media: Twitter Passes 100 Million Active Users, 40% Only "Listen" (aka...
This blog post from Twitter says that of those 100 million active users 40%* simply “log-in and listen.” In other words, just because your posts are being retweeted doesn’t mean they are not being...
View ArticleSocial Media: Live Coverage From F8 Facebook Conference
Mark Zuckerberg is on stage right now (2:15pm EDST). Breakout sessions to come. Watch Live, View Schedule
View ArticleThe Library of Congress Posts Update and Releases Report About What’s Going...
Update Digital Preservation expert and Founder of LOCKSS, Dr. David Rosenthal offer some analysis of the amount of data the archive contains. Hat Tip: @lorcand — The Library of Congress is out with a...
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“Young E-Book Consumers Three Times More Likely to Use Social Media for Book...
From NextMarket : In a survey conducted of over 1200 US e-reading consumers in late 2012, NextMarket Insights discovered 64% of those who use an Amazon e-reader (non-tablet) as their primary e-reading...
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New From Pew Internet: The Demographics of Social Media Users — 2012
From Pew Internet: A late 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that young adults are more likely than others to use major social media. At the same time,...
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