Have you ever thought about the effort you put into the social web? How much effort do you think you are putting into posting to your blog, building your Facebook network, beefing up your Flickr portfolio, submitting stories to Digg or shooting videos for YouTube? Most people would probably say “many hours”.
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Meta-Markets: Stock Exchange for our Social Web Labor
By Turker on November 2, 2007
Posted in Internet, Social Web | Tagged immaterial labor, meta-markets, social networks, social web | 2 Comments
BBC’s Social Media Experiment in Turkey
By Turker on June 21, 2007
I just came across an interesting news in Press Gazette. According to the article, BBC is starting a social media experiment in Turkey to cover the July 2007 general elections.
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Viacom Sues YouTube
By Turker on March 13, 2007
You remember when Viacom demanded YouTube to pull more than 100.000 videos, right? As far as I remember, YouTube tried to comply with this demand and removed many clips from the site.
However, this must have not been enough for Viacom since today…
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PEW Social Network Sites Report
By Turker on January 8, 2007
PEW recently published a report titled “Social Network Sites and Teens: An Overview” which gives some interesting insight into how teens use social network sites like Myspace and Facebook.
The report is publicly available here. Beyond the finding that 55% of teens…
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MySpace Popularity Hack!
By Turker on October 13, 2005
A guy named Samy discovers a bug on MySpace and writes a worm that initiates 1 million friend requests. Samy must be someone with a lot of time in his hands but I have to admit this is one cool way…
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