II am trying to get a handle on web content and which content has, overall, the best stickiness. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, Flickr are, as near as I can tell, mostly visual. Blog and microblogging sites like Wordpress and Twitter are word based. Quora, Reddit and Metafilter are information sharing communities. Podcasts and music sites like MySpace or Soundcloud are, for the most part, sound focused. And then you have sites like Facebook and Google+ that are trying to combine the best of all of them.
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posted by CollectiveMind
on Mar 10, 2013 -
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According to that new Google privacy policy, are they allowed to sell AdSense ads to advertisers based on what they have read in your Gmail?
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posted by shipbreaker
on Mar 7, 2012 -
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Apparently many successful software companies have processes where engineers write daily status updates that are publicly visible. Google has a system called 'Snippets' and Facebook has 'Colbert'. Any insiders want to share their experience with such reporting tools? Does anyone know of any resources that describe the pros and cons, nut and bolts of these processes?
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posted by unmodern
on Jan 30, 2012 -
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SOPA/Corporate Advocacy Queation: Reddit is voluntarily going to go offline for half of a day to protest SOPA. Following this, there have been calls for Google, Facebook and other opponents of the proposed law to do the same. Would it be legal for these companies to do this?
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posted by graphnerd
on Jan 12, 2012 -
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Looking for a recent article that mentions how a social network's success hinges on whether it will help get people laid. Might have been from a Facebook co-founder or about Google+, and isn't more than a month old.
posted by furtive
on Oct 20, 2011 -
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I'm looking for materials that can be used to help train people how to best use social media to help nonprofits engage the community.
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posted by reenum
on Jul 26, 2011 -
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How much am I worth to facebook (or G+, or even MySpace for that matter)?
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posted by fings
on Jul 24, 2011 -
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I'm been using both Google Adwords and a Facebook ad to promote an new album, but I think I'm using weak "keywords". Could I get the Metafilter community to look at a few no budget videos I've made to help me figure out "better" keywords to advertise my music? Or am I just wasting my money?
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posted by Dr.Rhetoric
on Jul 21, 2011 -
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Google,
Gmail and
Facebook rolled out some major redesigns recently. In fact they look quite similar to me; a bunch of random floating lists and boxes, with a dark bar at the top. What's the philosophy beside the aesthetic choices? I realize that there are technical improvements going on behind the scenes and that taste is subjective. Still, there must be some reason Google and Facebook would make major cosmetic changes. Hey designers, what's the logic?
posted by 2bucksplus
on Jul 7, 2011 -
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Why/how did Facebook track what I searched on Google? And how do I stop it from happening again?
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posted by fishmasta
on May 30, 2011 -
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ReputationRepair: How can I fix the Google Search result that's showing an old name for a group on Facebook? The jokes not quite as funny 6 years later.
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 27, 2009 -
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