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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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Why schools around the country are locking up kids’ cellphones

Vox

In Akron, for example, students were coordinating fights to post on social media, Shipe said. But the move to keep phones out of schools also comes in the midst of a bigger debate about whether the devices, and social media in general, are having dire effects on childhood development and the lives of teenagers.

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Agile Does Not Need A Maturity Model - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Models are used for comparisons. social media. (3).

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Microsoft will increase price of Xbox Live Gold subscription plans in apparent push for Game Pass

GeekWire

where the base price of Xbox Live hasn’t gone up since 2010. By way of comparison, the similar subscription services on Sony’s PlayStation 4/5 and the Nintendo Switch cost $59.99 Silver, which provides a handful of perks like access to the Xbox’s social networks and cloud server, is unaffected by this change.

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Global comparisons: Fastest Growing Online Properties - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The US leads in usage of all leading social networks. Facebook began as a US college-only social network, however since opening to other users has had strong international as well as domestic uptake. Is there any reason why Canada would be omitted from these comparisons? Britain, Canada and Australia.

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Global comparisons: Why bandwidth drives Internet participation - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Who is capturing the new industry of online classifieds? Analysis and global comparisons - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Analysis and global comparisons Ross Dawson, August 30, 2007 4:15 PM US PT In the Future of Media Report 2007 we published some original research on the ownership of online classifieds in the US, UK, and Australia. He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.