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"Engage. Online behavior always improves when responsible adults are present."
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"In the process of upgrading some of the software which publishes our site, we inadvertently started to show you "most shared" on story pages as well as the front page."
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Despite the concerns, Mr Zuckerberg predicted that in a few years’ time thousands of websites and services would be linked to consumers’ profiles and preferences, following the trend that Facebook has started.
People would share more information and expect to see services, advertising and websites that were targeted at them, he said. “Things are going to be designed around people,” he added.
Free beer and pizza at Ruby in the Pub 4!
What: Ruby in the Pub
When: Tuesday, June 22nd, 7pm
Where: LBi, 146 Brick Lane (streetview – turn right for the entrance)
Why: More hacks learning to hack, but with free food and drink!
*FREE*
Please register for the event by emailing joanna.geary[at]thetimes.co.uk
Well, I said this month’s Ruby in the Pub (#ritp or #rubyinthepub) was going to be a bit different!
It’s still following the same format – volunteer programmers spend time with journos over a beer and – if not teach them a little code – at least help demonstrate the amazing things that are possible if you combine the power of programming with an eye for a story.
However, this time the lovely folk at LBi (especially the very lovely Paul Carvill) have offered to host the fourth Ruby in the Pub, which takes place on June 22 from 7pm.
They are also offering us free drinks and pizza for up to 30 people.
If you want to come along, please email me so we can put your name on the door.
Remember: Just turn up with your laptop and, if you have one, an extension lead. Also, downloading Hackety Hack before you arrive is advised.
Also, developers: if you want to run a specific session at this event (scraping, spreadsheets, Twitter API, etc.), feel free to let us know in the comments below. Journalists – if there is anything specific you want to learn, please do the same!
links for 2010-05-27
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"Research by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, of Booz and Co, found manufacturers that emphasise short-term revenue gains and move into categories outside of their fields of expertise generally run the risk of failure."
links for 2010-05-13
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"Schooloscope is still a work in progress. So far, we only have information about state schools in England, but we hope to add more soon."
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"I also believe that our current MBA programs do not sufficiently help our students develop cross entity collaborative skills. At the Harvard Business School, for instance, we teach cases on individual entities where there's typically a manager with authority, but we rarely teach how to build collaborations across entities (multiple companies, non-profits, government entities, foundations) to accomplish a specific goal."
Ruby in the Pub 3
What: Ruby in the Pub
When: Tuesday, May 25th, 7pm
Where: The Shooting Star, Spitalfields (streetview)
Why: More hacks learning to hack!
*FREE*
No registration/sign-up necessary – just turn up!
We had such a fantastic response to last month’s Ruby in the Pub (#ritp or #rubyinthepub) – thank you so much to all the wonderful people that turned up.
I’m hoping we get an equally good turn out this time!
Remember: Just turn up with your laptop and, if you have one, an extension lead. Also, downloading Hackety Hack before you arrive is advised.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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How data in Facebook is increasingly being made public.
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2Conventional VC networks and outlier identification produce poor returns. (This is due, in part, to financiers’ Pavlovian reaction to entrepreneurs with a diploma from a top-tier school.) As we move forward, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding will be used to augment or replace traditional methods and create the high-return VC of the future.2
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A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a computer lab downtown on Mercer Street, decided to build a social network that wouldn’t force people to surrender their privacy to a big business.
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"Politics, general news and sport are to retain a presence of one reporter each but the bulk face the chop within a period said to be 30 days."
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"One of the biggest additions is the ability for businesses to accept direct messages on the service, even from people they don’t follow."
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But Internet culture isn’t just for the Internet anymore. These days, the intersection between online and mainstream media is evermore blurry as celebrities jump onto Twitter (Twitter) and TV shows pull meme content into storylines.
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According to one study, adults ages 35 and older hear more bad news about Facebook than good. Between bugs, changes and privacy fear, uncertainty and doubt in the media, these mature folks have heard significantly more negative reports than have their younger counterparts.
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Google has said it is working with hardware makers and carriers to create lightweight computers that run its software. As rivals such as Apple Inc. introduce tablets like the iPad, the Internet giant is seeking to spur the adoption of its online software and advertising system through its own partnerships.
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We investigate, showcase and set standards for socially engaged media-making. We organize conferences and convenings, publish research, create codes of best practices, and incubate media strategies.
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"Swiping for the next article is derived from a strong print metaphor in many content apps. In fact, this metaphor is so strong that you can't even tap a headline on the "cover" page to jump to the corresponding article. The iPad offers no homepages, even though users strongly desired homepage-like features in our testing. (They also often wanted search, which was typically not provided.)
In electronic media, the linear concept of "next article" makes little sense. People would rather choose for themselves where to go, selecting from a menu of related offerings.
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Here's where we get to the more meta-journalist stuff. AFP claims that Twitter's Terms of Service allows third parties to republish any materials posted to Twitter. That's wrong, in the first place, but even more damning is that Morel didn't upload the photos to Twitter–he uploaded them to TwitPic, which is not owned by Twitter in any way, and which has its own terms of service that clearly say "all images are copyright their respective owners."
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asked whether their use of social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook have increased their involvement and interest in political discussion an overwhelming 82 per cent said 'yes'.
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"The slow, sad realisation that the political culture in the UK is such that no politician has any choice but to grovel to the bigots."