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25 Major News Sites Ranked By Page Speed

Adam Sherk

To get a basic idea I ran Page Speed , the open source Firefox/Firebug add-on that Google recommends, on the home page of 25 news sites. At a minimum you should monitor the Site Performance data in your Webmaster Tools account and make an effort to minimize your average load times. How can you improve site speed?

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An Explicit Link Between PRISM and Social Media Intelligence

Net-Savvy Executive

[emphasis added] Wright has a fairly alarmist—but accurate—take on something that''s obvious to anyone who thinks about it: outside of a few protected spaces, what we do in social media is public, and government security and law enforcement agencies are using that data. Demos : #Intelligence , Policing in an Information Age.

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Google Spreadsheets Update: Blessing in Disguise for Marketers…

The Marketing Blog

The Problem There are various form builders and online-survey tools out there but the ‘marketers’ face tough time to convince the respondents in filling up those web-based survey-forms. The process of ‘Conducting Survey’ and ‘Collecting Data’ are merged together.

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An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction

Adam Sherk

Daniel November 5, 2009 at 6:06 pm Also, how comfortable will news organizations be linking to other sources? To reporters’ sources? If we’re truly in an era of open-source journalism, I say reporters share their access (sort of) to sources via Twitter lists.

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Social Network Analysis - KM4DevWiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Combines the survey and data analysis tools into one package. If there was one hassle it was having to manipulate data from surveys to input into analysis/visualisation tools. link] : I have learned to use Proximity, open-source software under development by the Univ. Tools for SNA. onasurveys.

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[INTERVIEW] How the University of Chester’s first-class social strategy gets them to the head of the class

Audiense

To see how well we’re doing this, I track against our nearest ten or so competitors, as identified by course application data. We work closely with our market research team, which has conducted a prospective student survey every six months since about 2013. Having access to that rich amount of data is hugely valuable to us.

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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Of course, as you can see in the second map above, “there are obvious biases in the data, with 15- to 30-year-olds being by far the biggest groups of users. Geographically, the majority of users were in North America, Europe and Japan; large areas of the developing world provided no data at all. Linux and Open Source.