A*STAR researchers are extracting useful information from billions of social media posts to support businesses, governments and healthcare professionals In the second it takes to ‘like’ this... Read more
What we can learn about cities from social network chatter Data from social networks can reveal some very interesting things. One technologist, Dave Troy, has started to draw upon that large... Read more
Democratic movements can flourish online, but just as easily get censored. A group of researchers is developing solutions to the vulnerabilities and privacy problems with using big social me... Read more
Princeton University has developed a method that offers a solution to data overload Advances in computer storage have created collections of data so huge that researchers often have trouble... Read more
Want to remain anonymous on the world wide web? You may want to try out the latest of the “Insta” apps to protect your identity when you share photos to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. INTI... Read more
The answer is yes, according to a paper in the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. In a paper published in the journal last month, authors Anthony Bonato, Dieter Mitsche, and Pawel Pralat... Read more
A new social network is trying to redefine how we look at emergencies. Instead of seeing them as a time when things fall apart – SF72 want you to see them as a time when people come together... Read more
Men and women socialize differently, and it turns out these gender differences hold true in online games that involve social interaction. A new quantitative study of data assembled fr... Read more
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the hyperlinked World Wide Web, isn’t entirely happy with what he has helped create Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the hyperlinked World Wide Web, isn’t en... Read more
ResearchGate is not alone in its ambitions to upturn the stuffy and defensive world of scientific publishing With 2m members, science startup ResearchGate isn’t just talking big when it says... Read more
FACEBOOK makes sharing easy — too easy, some would say. Because one’s social network often consists not only of actual friends but also relatives and sort-of friends, along with sort-of frie... Read more
Magazines are rethinking how they seek revenue from advertisers and consumers FOR traditional media like magazines, remaining relevant in a world of new media and social media is no w... Read more
Facebook became intertwined with traditional vehicle functions like GPS and radio Automakers have begun slowly integrating social networking into vehicles via advanced infotainment sy... Read more
Transcendenz is a system integrated into an object, a pair of glasses For his thesis project, Michaël Harboun developed a concept pair of glasses called Transcendenz. These push boundaries b... Read more
Users are rapidly adopting new interest-based social networks With the pending public offering of Facebook anticipated to be the largest tech IPO in history, it’s an interesting time... Read more