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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

In short order, we’ve adopted these tools, and there is a lot new ones coming out such as Google Glass and the Apple smart watch, Pebble, said Young. And, Street Bump is a mobile application that lets people improve their own neighbourhoods. Luckily, this data integration feature has now been disabled by Foursquare.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Save for Later’ Reading Feature, Twitter Beefs Up Security

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Buffer: Facebook. Foursquare. Social Media News Ticker age gate Buffer Facebook Facebook video autoplay Foursquare security TV Conversation Targeting Twitter'

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Social Networking Stats: Amazon Is Top Retailer on Pinterest, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Google Plus: 343 million monthly active users. Foursquare: 40 million users. Out of the top ten retail sites, web content from Amazon is most shared on Pinterest, followed by Walmart and then Apple. LinkedIn: 238 million active users. via LinkedIn. via GlobalWebIndex. Tumblr: 157 million blogs. via Tumblr. via Instagram.

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Realtime Restaurant Deals: Can LiveDeal Succeed Where Groupon, LivingSocial Failed?

The Realtime Report

Restaurants have been experimenting with ways to combine geolocation, mobile and social to bring more customers in the door. There are daily deals from the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial, or the ability to offer deals to consumers checking in or using Foursquare, the location-based social platform. How exactly does it work?

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Social Networking Stats: Teens Prefer Instagram Over Facebook, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Google Plus: 343 million monthly active users. Foursquare: 45 million users. Now, Instagram has moved into first place, with 30% of teens choosing the photo-sharing mobile social network as most important. One other interesting fact from the study: a whopping 85% of teen gamers play mobile games (that’s a lot of gaming.).

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50 Great Apps for Your iPad

Dave Fleet

GoodReader – Integrates with Google Docs, Dropbox, box.net and other services. BBC News – Great mobile interface for catching up on the latest news. iBooks – Apple’s e-reader app. Almost no books available in Canada, but a nice interface if Apple ever decides to notice we exist up here.

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Technology Removes Technology

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They're all valid reasons why these products (and a lot of what Google is doing with Android or what Amazon is doing with Kindle ) have the exponential growth and economic engines that are making every other business jealous of them. They're all not Apple fanboys/fangirls. Simple is as simple does. They're all not all power users.

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