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Tech Savvy Researcher Feature: The “Second Screen” and the expansion of mobile networking

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“OMG Walking Dead!” Yes, that was the most common post in my Facebook Newsfeed during the last airing of the hit AMC show. The hit show that I’ve never watched. But maybe now I will – a 500-friend recommendation is not too shabby. But the focus in a report recently put out by Nielsen on the climate of social media…

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Tech Savvy Researcher Feature: A Web All Our Own

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Instagram and Pinterest Assist in Curating our Digital Selves “We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re going to live on the internet!” proclaims an overly enthusiastic, proficiently drugged-up Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker in the zeitgeist mega-production The Social Network. I found the sentiment quite poignant, didn’t you? But we can’t overlook the notion that…

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UPDATE: Facebook Want button likely to be supplemented by “Purchase” power

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Turns out facebook may be courting more than the user’s intention to buy – they likely want in on the actual purchase itself. Introducing, the “Purchased” button. Tom Waddington, the developer who found evidence for development of the Want button on facebook, has also discovered that Want will be joined by plug-in capabilities to show purchased items (products, games, items…

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Facebook developing Like’s cousin, the Want Button

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Like this page if you want. Everyone’s favorite online button to push is about to get some competition. Rumors abound of a new facebook capability that will allow users to “Want” as easily as they “Like” through use of a new plug-in. Relax hardcore facebookers, we know that a similar button already exists, however only for certain pages that require you to authorize…

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