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What Happens After Your System Notices Something Important?

Net-Savvy Executive

Since 2010, I've been thinking about another application: blending social media data with other publicly available sources to create an automated view of what's happening in the world. At the high end, we're looking at a valuable—but noisy and sometimes misleading —source of crowdsourced information about events in near-real time.

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The New Dilemma: Social Media Exposes Us to Too Much, Too Often

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This crowdsourced, automated method of discovering popular content was a drastic improvement in how we found interesting information and media on a daily basis. Another new form of spam which many are familiar with is how Facebook applications constantly push triggers and notifications to us through our friends.