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Using The Cloud To Crunch Our Social Data

Jesse Newhart — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:17:06 PDT

They’ve got to figure out how to monetize all of our tweets, likes and check-ins somehow. …the team managed to perform “subgraph pattern-matching queries” on real-world social network data with more than 750 million “edges,” or connections between individuals, in less than a second. … If you’ve ever looked at the Twitter follower graph of [...]

Twitter & The Power of Limbic Resonance

Jesse Newhart — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:09:54 PDT

I’ve definitely felt this in effect recently while being entertained by the World Cup and felt it even more deeply during tragedies such as the Haiti earthquake. Limbic resonance suggest that the meaning of an object is not just made up of our own interpretation of that object but in part what other people think [...]

Google Enhances Social Search

Jesse Newhart — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:18:14 PDT

Google is expanding what they include in your social search results based upon sites in your connected sites tab in Google Buzz. Unfortunately for me it won’t pull in my Twitter social graph because I haven’t enabled Twitter in Buzz. Most Buzzers aren’t fond of other users pulling their tweets into buzz as they think [...]

Social Networking Releases Trust/Generosity Chemicals In The Brain

Jesse Newhart — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:22:07 PDT

Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has discovered, for the first time, that social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains. And that should be a wake-up call for every company. via Doctor Love | Fast Company.

Why Google Might Not Care So Much If Facebook Has More Pageviews

Jesse Newhart — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:23:22 PDT

This morning while doing my obligatory email and Facebook check, I noticed that Google was advertising Chrome on Facebook. This got me to thinking: With all the talk about Facebook bettering Google in such statistics as page views and time on site, there is a reason why this might not be something for Google to [...]

When A $120000000 Investment In Facebook Isn’t News Worthy

Jesse Newhart — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:22:29 PDT

With over 500,000,000 users and worth 23,000,000,000 dollars, I could see why 120 million might seem like small potatoes. Wait a minute no I can’t! In any other given week, the fact that Elevation Partners this week bought $120 million of shares in Facebook, essentially valuing the social networking company at $23 billion, would be [...]

Twitpic Won’t Let Posterous Rescue Your Pictures

Jesse Newhart — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:49:13 PDT

What the hell did Posterous expect brazenly declaring “Rescue Your Pictures From Twitpic” on the app? They were asking for it don’t you think? Halfway into their big 15 importers in 15 days campaign, Posteroushas managed to make one of their competitors very angry. Twitpic is so angry, in fact, that they’re blocking the service [...]

Facebook Snags the Guy Who Built Google’s Chrome OS

Jesse Newhart — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:57:54 PDT

The battle between Facebook and Google just got even hotter with the news that the social network has hired Matthew Papakipos, the man who started and lead both the Google Chrome OS project and the Chrome WebGL GPU hardware project for hardware-accelerated graphics. via Facebook Snags the Guy Who Built Google\’s Chrome OS.

Why Does Bing Have Such Low Self Esteem?

Jesse Newhart — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:46:03 PDT

via Bing is \’stupid\’ and \’rubbish\’, says Bing | News | TechRadar UK.

The Grateful Dead 4-Step Guide to the Magical Influence of Content Marketing

Jesse Newhart — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:36:34 PDT

Great post on how to apply The Grateful Dead model of content creation, distribution and monetization. You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do. ~Jerry Garcia Read more >> The Grateful Dead 4-Step Guide to the Magical [...]