A bit of a different kind of post today. We usually focus on technical topics or talk through some particularly interesting data from the Brandwatch application, but this one’s more of a discussion about social media in general and the impact it may be having on society:
“Is social media making us anti-social?”
This question was posted on Quora a month or so ago. It’s a version of a discussion I expect many of us have had at some point, and I imagine strong opinions usually surface on both sides.
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Google +1 and The Death of Serendipitous Search
mayo 11th, 2011. Publicado por dominickWhen Google +1 was announced back at the end of March, flurries of excitement spread around the tech world. Amongst the most intrigued were SEOs, as the announcement freshly revitalised one of their favourite forward-facing phrases: social search. Below is the history of people using the phrase ‘social search’, and underneath is mentions of Google +1; note the correlation of the spikes at the end of March: »