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Google is not the biggest website in the world. It’s No. 2. Do you know who’s No. 1? Hint: It’s another American company.
Via Business Insider
The combination of the Internet, social media, and mobile devices ushers in an era of mass collaboration. These new technologies allow anyone to connect to anyone and everyone, at any time — and there are already signs that the relationships we have with ourselves, with each other, and with our institutions are changing in response.
Navigated from Harvard Business Review
We know distractions are bad when you’re trying to work. But, a new study found that it doesn’t matter how many times you’re distracted in one period of important work—even one little distraction is enough to derail your productivity.
Full story at Lifehacker
Saavn, the Indian music service whose President and COO Malhotra is, took a different route and started with Android. An iPhone app did come next, but Saavn doesn’t stop there: The company is now working on clients for BlackBerry, Symbian and the feature-phone platform J2ME. BlackBerry alone could get the company two million new users.
Via GigaOm
Psychology paper finds Facebook and other social media offer platform for obsessions with self-image and shallow friendships.
Researchers have established a direct link between the number of friends you have on Facebook and the degree to which you are a “socially disruptive” narcissist, confirming the conclusions of many social media sceptics.
Full story at The Guardian
Facebook. Google. Zynga. They think they are the saints of American capitalism. But they’re really the successors to the Big Money magnets of the Gilded Age.
Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as morally exceptional. When Google went public in 2004, the Internet search company’s wunderkind founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, penned a letter to prospective shareholders that has become the Internet industry’s version of the Magna Carta. In it, they pledged that Google was “not a conventional company” but one focused on “making the world a better place.”
Full story at The Daily Beast
A few months ago, OMGPOP was about to go bust. Its Facebook games weren’t performing and prospects were so bleak, CEO Dan Porter was forced to lay off several of the startup’s flash developers.
Via Business Insider
The infographic ranks news sites based on how many viral stories they produced during the month of January 2012.
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More than 18.4 million Americans have used Facebook to find a job. Facebook Timeline poses new obstacles for current adults looking for work.
Full story at Mashable
It’s no secret that the Internet loves Pinterest. Now, most users are even spending more time, on average, pinning than they are on hanging out on Facebook. Here’s what you need to know about Pinterest user demographics.
Link Mashable
