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The Medium Is No Longer The Message, . . . You Are

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Social Media and Identity
We are witnessing a profound change in the media and advertising industries due to the emergence of social media. Companies that did not exist ten years ago, like Facebook and Twitter, have captured significant share of the attention economy from traditional publishers.  Underscoring this trend is the fact that at [...]

The Paradox of Web 2.0: Getting an Active Community is Hard to Do

Here’s the rub: creating the right platform for a community to form around can feel like fishing all day long when the fish aren’t biting.

New Portable Energy Source Utilizes Microbes To Turn Electricity Directly To Methane

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A tiny microbe can take electricity and directly convert carbon dioxide and water to methane, producing a portable energy source with a potentially neutral carbon footprint, according to a team of Penn State engineers.
“We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we kept getting all this methane,” said Bruce E. Logan, [...]

Status: Looking for Work on Facebook

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AS anyone who has ever received a virtual Jagerbomb or fought off intergalactic cyber chickens knows, social-networking sites are designed to be entertaining. If there wasn’t so much fun to be had, there wouldn’t be so many articles warning that what you post on your profile — i.e., photos of you [...]

MySpace Developer Platform Goes Live (Sorta)

MySpace is holding an event in San Francisco tomorrow with 250 application developers to ceremonially launch its application platform…for developers only, that is.
Over the next month, developers big and small will have the opportunity to begin developing applications for MySpace using the company’s new, OpenSocial-based APIs. Until that month has passed, only a maximum of [...]