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Here’s how people look at your facebook profile, literally

Jan
2012
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When potential dates, employers and friends glance at your online social profiles, what do they see? EyeTrackShop, a startup that runs eye-tracking studies for advertisers, helped Mashable find out by applying its technology to the profile pages of popular social networks. The study used the webcams of 30 participants to record their eye movements as they were [...]

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What people love and hate about the iPhone 4S

Jan
2012
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Here’s a look at what people love and hate about the iPhone 4S from ChangeWave Research. As you can see, people love Siri, the ease of use, and the nice camera. They hate the battery life and the fact that it doesn’t have 4G. Read more By Jay Yarow and Jon Terbush for Business Insider, 01 Dec 2011.

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Trend report: is the industry ready for mobile?

Nov
2011
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Since 2007 the media industry has been proclaiming it as the “year of mobile”, however it looks like 2012 might finally prove to be the “year”. Mike Fletcher speaks to some leading agencies to find out how the industry will finally take advantage of mobile. There’s an in-joke that’s been doing the rounds for a [...]

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Facebook ‘may be changing brains’

Nov
2011
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Facebook may be changing people’s brains as well as their social world, research has shown. Scientists have found a direct link between the number of “Facebook friends” a person has and the size of specific parts of the brain. The regions involved have roles in social interaction as well as memory and at least one [...]

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The world at seven billion

Nov
2011
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The world’s population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks. After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years. Where do you fit into this story of human life? Fill in your date of birth to [...]

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The digital economy

Oct
2011
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Digitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible — thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution. In 1850, a decade before the Civil War, the United States’ economy was small — it wasn’t much bigger than Italy’s. Forty years later, it was the largest economy in the world. What happened in-between [...]

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What you shouldn’t post on your facebook page if you want a job

Oct
2011
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Kashmir Hill, Forbes’ indispensable privacy blogger, posted this chart today, drawn from a survey of employers. Three things to note. 1) 95 percent of employers say they use social media sites to ferret out more information about job candidates. 2) If these employers informed these job candidates why they were dropped, Facebook as we know it [...]

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AIDS puzzle solved by computer gamers

Sep
2011
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Computer game skills could help save lives, and not just virtual ones. As fanciful as it may sound at first, gamers onFoldit, a crowdsourced, online protein folding simulator from the University of Washington,actually managed to solve a longstanding problem in AIDS research that has vexed scientists for more than a decade. And they did so [...]

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The twelve attributes of a truly great place to work

Sep
2011
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More than 100 studies have now found that the most engaged employees — those who report they’re fully invested in their jobs and committed to their employers — are significantly more productive, drive higher customer satisfaction and outperform those who are less engaged. But only 20 per cent of employees around the world report that they’re [...]

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Web surfing helps at work

Sep
2011
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Don’t feel guilty about browsing the Internet at work—turns out it may actually improve your performance. According to a new study, Web browsing can actually refresh tired workers and enhance their productivity, compared to other activities such as making personal calls, texts or emails, let alone working straight through with no rest at all. The [...]

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