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Crowd-Sourced Information Online: Helpful or Harmful?

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Others scrutinize sites that allow users to share/upload files, music and videos freely. But who can really define whether these sites are doing right or wrong? Since users can change the content, who’s to say that what you’re reading on those sites is factual? Does SOPA silent free speech?

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One night in 2006, over Tiger beer and carrot cake at a hawker center , my designer friend Little Ong told me about Multiply. My first podcast, audio interviews/explorations of Singapore combined with music, appeared on a music site run by Cosa Nostra. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In September 2006, after Facebook had nearly 10 million members, the News Feed was announced, which the team had been working on for almost a year. People threatened to leave the service , but not many actually did enough to make a significant dent in the membership numbers on the site.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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The 33 most important moments in the history of social media The first social media site was born (1997) On one of the first true social media sites, SixDegrees.com , you could set up a profile page, create lists of connections, and send messages within networks. Hot or Not (2000) Who can forget AmIHotorNot.com ?

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Here’s 2006. Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to grab the code you need for your post or site. There are many goals you can achieve with the site.

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The site was initially opened to beta testers in May 2005 and in October 2006 it was acquired by Google for $1.65bn. The Growth of Foursquare In an Infographic. YouTube’s first video was uploaded on April 23, 2005. This video is with YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of a herd of elephants at San Diego Zoo.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other location-aware services are social networks, unifying real connections. And of course, don’t only focus on YouTube; there are other video syndication sites that you can spread your message to. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.