Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo together have a lot of clout. More than the UK government?
The brave boys and girls who run Apple support are now on Twitter – and answering questions every 20 seconds or so.
Don’t be daunted by Twitter’s strange conventions: here is a guide for beginners and experts alike to its many features.
Is Twitter’s 140 character limit the case of so much rudeness and offensive behaviour? Ask Richard Dawkins.
Services should comply with data protection law at the point of delivery, not where they choose.
Because social media only have tools of approval, these set up positive feedback loops, which amplify the bad.
Models used so far to explain viral events lack explanatory or predictive value. It is time to turn to Catastrophe Theory.
Almost every app that you run – under OS X or iOS – which communicates with a remote web server will use RESTful APIs somewhere along the line.
There seems no doubt that intensely viral events occur. Characterising their early stages remains very difficult, requiring sensitive analysis on a huge data stream.
There is already a substantial queue of organisations waiting to know how to create intensely viral events, and how to control them.
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