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Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results
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Earlier this month market research tool provider Ask Your Target Market surveyed 400 US adults about their attitudes toward personalized search on Google. The results were reported today in eMarketer’s email newsletter. We went back to the source to check out the survey and discovered that... Please visit Search Engine Land...
Spellcheck reliance 'revealed'
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A survey suggests adults are struggling to spell properly because they rely on technology to check their work....
[STUDY] 61% of Social Media Users Feel So Close To You
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Sometimes little things like a sweet comment on Facebook or a Twitter friend calling your tweet a "favorite" can really make a social networker bee's day. A new study from Pew finds that for the most part, adults are kind to each other on social media sites. In fact, 85%...
Report: 15% Of Social Users Have Ended A Friendship Because Of Social Media & Detailed Statistics On The ‘Tone’ Of Social Media
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A new study from Pew Internet examined social media usage, demographics and the climate within social networking spaces (SNS). A national phone survey was administered to active social networking adults across the United States as well as users aged 12-17 in conjunction with their parents.... Please visit Marketing Land for the full...
Report: 15% Of Social Users Have Ended A Friendship Because Of Social Media & Detailed Statistics On The ‘Tone’ Of Social Media
Women are ‘more likely’ to make your social media campaign go viral
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uSamp has just published a study that gives a little insight into what kind of information men and women are willing to share on social networks. Surveying 600 adults in the UK this past January, the survey revealed that 78% of women were happy to share what brand they preferred, compared...
Google quietly introduces BrandCast, a tool to help businesses get the most out of YouTube
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Google has quietly launched YouTube Brandcast, a site which gives brands insight into how to best reach their audience on the video sharing site. Just a few weeks after announcing an ad sponsorship model for brands to target their audience through specific packages relating to original content shared on YouTube,...
Life After Death of the Check-In
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The first generation of location-based apps has fallen short. Most consumers don't even know location apps exist, and only a tiny minority actually use them. Today's apps focus on benefits for businesses, like being discovered by nearby shoppers, but they've failed to stir customers. Can next-generation companies like Geoloqi show...
Facebook’s world takeover by the numbers
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With eight years, $2.2 billion in funding, and 901 million users under its belt, Facebook is set to become a public company. Thanks to data compiled by analytics firm Nieslen, we can revisit some of the more memorable moments of Facebook’s maturation process. Between 2005 and 2009, for instance,...
Feature: Does this smartphone make me look stupid? Meet the "ladyphones"
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Women are accosted everywhere by pink: pink toys when they're young, pink clothes when they're teenagers, pink beer when they're adults. That wasn't the case in tech, which for decades created a black and chrome world, but as even advanced gadgets have gone mainstream in the last decade, pink...
[GRAPHIC] Most Don't Feel Comfortable Sharing Credit Card Info On Social Networks
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Most of us still don't like giving our credit card information on social networking sites, according to a poll of 2,630 adults by Harris Interactive for Digitas. And that could mean trouble - at least for now - for Facebook and other social networks hoping to make good on predictions...
Pew: 15% of online adults use Twitter, 8% every day. That’s up 4x since 2010
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A new Pew report shows that 15% of online adults use Twitter, 8% of them using it daily. The report says that adoption appears steady, with daily usage doubling since last year at this time, but quadrupaled since late 2010. The reason? Potentially the increase in smartphones. Now that Twitter...
Study Suggests 50 Percent Local Search Happening In Apps
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Localeze, 15 Miles and comScore released findings from their 5th Local Search Study. The survey of 4,000 US adults (together with behavioral data) documents how consumers search for and find local business information across digital platforms. It’s a pretty comprehensive study and there are a... Please visit Search Engine Land...
Encyclopedia Britannica's 2010 edition to be its last
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The 244-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica will be going out of print this year, abdicating to the likes of Google and Wikipedia. Most adults will remember looking up information in the IRL knowledge-base's volumes, but the iconic encyclopedia only represents 1 percent of the company's total sales today. Britannica traditionally published...
AllClear ID Rolls Out First-Ever Social Security Number Blocking Service For Children’s IDs
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ID and fraud protection service AllClear ID, is launching a new feature today which aims to protect kids’ Social Security Numbers (SSNs) from being stolen and used to secure things like mortgages, loans and other big ticket items. It’s a major problem, the company says, noting in a new study...
What will the global e-book market look like by 2016?
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New data from Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016. What will happen in the rest of the world during that time? PwC gave paidContent an exclusive look at their e-book data, and here...
UK Gov't Considering Requiring A 'Porn License' If You Want To Look At Porn Online
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We hear this idea pop up every now and again, and I'd thought by now it had been shown to be pointless enough times that no one would seriously consider it again. Apparently, I was wrong. UK Prime Minister David Cameron is considering requiring adults who want to see porn...
43% of US teens say they text whilst driving, despite knowing of the dangers: AT&T survey
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A survey commissioned by US telecoms giant AT&T has found that 43% of teens admit to sending a text while driving, with adults setting a poor example too. The research was carried out as part of the company’s It Can Wait campaign, which seeks to highlight the dangers of texting...
T-Haler digital inhaler turns battling asthma into an instructional game
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From Wi-Fi-enabled scales to activity-tracking bracelets, we're seeing unique new ways that technology can make the mundane engaging and help our health and well-being in the process. The same idea is being applied in an instructional way with the T-Haler. Created by Cambridge Consultants, the T-Haler is a training...
After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Faces Crisis
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After a spate of rape cases involving adults and minors in California, Wisconsin and Ohio who connected on Skout, the start-up is rethinking its business model as a flirting site for children and adults. In response, Christian Wiklund, Skout's founder, is suspending its service for minors on Tuesday....
Study: 37% Of U.S. Teens Now Use Video Chat, 27% Upload Videos
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Video chat is still something many people don’t feel comfortable with. For U.S. teens, however, it is quickly becoming a pretty routine way of communicating with each other. According to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 37% of teens now regularly use Skype, Google Talk...
Drone Attack: How We Might Willingly Embrace The Surveillance Society
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It's striking how drones have passed from a mysterious weapon used to wreak destruction in distant lands to something that could well become a familiar sight in the skies of the US and Europe. Meanwhile, the technology is progressing rapidly, allowing drones to fly in synchronized swarms and even to...
Ebook publishers willing to pay to end antitrust probes, while one fifth of US adults read ebooks
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Of the five publishers accused of collusion over pricing of ebooks last month, three are inclined to settle the case, the Wall Street Journal reports. The allegations relate to Apple's terms and conditions of its iBooks store, which said that while publishers could set their own prices, the same...
High school kids are three times more likely to have iPhones than adults?
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Piper Jaffey’s Gene Munster has been surveying kids for a number of years on their electronics usage. This spring, he polled 5,600 students, half male, half female. A surprising 34% of High School respondents told him that they had an iPhone and 40% said they planned on getting one in the next 6 months: ....
[Infographic] How Many Pre-Teens Are on Facebook?
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If you have children of a certain age, they either have their own Facebook accounts or have asked you when they will be old enough to have their own. Parenting used to be a lot easier: back when my daughter was a teen, we just had to worry about AIM...
When animals attract: Inside Anthrocon, the Furry utopia
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When I say that there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for The Verge, I mean it. And if you were to ask me for proof, I need only utter one word: Anthrocon. If you’ve been mercifully cut off from the more absurd aspects of internet culture since, well, the...
Google beats Apple, Facebook, and Twitter in consumer favorability poll
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Apple and Google are continuously slugging it out for the hearts and minds of consumers — and Google has the edge at the moment, according to a poll jointly commissioned by ABC News and the Washington Post. According to this random survey of 1,007 adults , 82 percent of...
NASA opens up Launch Control Center for public tours
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The NASA control center, responsible for a huge chunk of space-faring history, will open its doors to tour groups for the first time in over 30 years, celebrating the Kennedy Space Center's 50th anniversary. Starting this Friday, a "limited number" of tours will take bright-eyed enthusiasts into the Launch...
One-third of Americans using social media to share health information, survey finds
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Doctors may be rightfully skeptical of internet-based diagnoses, but patients are increasingly using social media in a variety of other ways when they get sick. A survey of about 1,000 US adults by consulting house PwC Health Industries found that a third of them had shared health information or...
Half of Americans believe Facebook is a passing fad
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Half of all Americans think Facebook is a passing fad and the social networking site’s expected asking price of $34 to $38 is too high, according to a joint poll conducted by The Associated Press and CNBC. A third of those surveyed think the company’s expected value is appropriate,...
Adobe study reveals massive creativity gaps, but not in gender or age
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Whether you’re able to be creative or not has little to do with how old you are or whether you’re female or male, but it might depend heavily on where you live, how your boss treats you, and how you were educated. According to a mammoth survey conducted by...
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