Sunday, February 7, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
New EU Personal Data Protection and Privacy Laws to Target Social Media : Facebook, Twitter, Myspace et al.
Leigh Phillips at the EUobserver in New EU laws to target Facebook writes that:
"[T]he European Commission ... announced plans for comprehensive new laws that have in their sights the massively popular website [Facebook]....Read the whole article here.
Underscoring its new powers under the Lisbon Treaty and the legal basis given to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the commission said it wants to create "a clear, modern set of rules" guaranteeing a high level of personal data protection and privacy....
Mentioning Facebook, Myspace and Twitter by name, [EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media] Ms Reding said she will start this year with a revision of the 1995 Data Protection Directive...." [link added by LawPundit]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
MoMA | The Collection | Paul Klee. Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine). 1922
MoMA | The Collection | Paul Klee. Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine). 1922:
"Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine)
Paul Klee (German, born Switzerland. 1879-1940)"
Monday, January 25, 2010
Marketers to Spend More on Social Media as Usage Skyrockets - ClickZ
Marketers to Spend More on Social Media as Usage Skyrockets - ClickZ
By Douglas Quenqua, ClickZ, Jan 25, 2010
"[A] new Nielsen report ... says the average person spent five and a half hours on social media sites in December 2009, up 82 percent from December 2008. Significant traffic increases for Facebook and Twitter led the way."
By Douglas Quenqua, ClickZ, Jan 25, 2010
"[A] new Nielsen report ... says the average person spent five and a half hours on social media sites in December 2009, up 82 percent from December 2008. Significant traffic increases for Facebook and Twitter led the way."
Kippreport » The Media vs social media » : An In the Box Experiment
Here is an interesting "in the box" social media experiment.
Kippreport » The Media vs social media »: Jan 25th, 2010
Kippreport » The Media vs social media »: Jan 25th, 2010
"Five journalists are getting set to assess the latest ‘threats’ to the traditional media-Facebook and Twitter. The reporters, from Canadian, French, Belgian and Swiss radio stations, will be locking themselves in a French farmhouse for five days with access only to the two social networking sites.
They will then aim to test the quality of news from Facebook and Twitter and try to find out if they are genuine “threats” to the traditional media, reports AFP. The experiment begins on February 1."
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Twitter Four Years On: Investing Time wisely | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Twitter Four Years On: Investing Time wisely | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com
"Twitter is all about deriving value from people you’ve chosen to follow, but this made me think hard about what value I can provide by Tweeting publicly."
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