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I've Used Bluesky for 6 Months – Here's What You Should Know

Buffer Social

Among them is Bluesky , which is a decentralized, invite-only social network built on an open-source protocol  (I’ll explain what this means even though I barely understand it myself). This lack of transparency can be unsettling for privacy-conscious users. What is Bluesky?

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#Hashtags Hit Facebook – #WhatDoYouThink

The Social Media Incubator

In an announcement by the social networking service giant on Wednesday, Facebook informed users of the rollout of hashtags to status updates. Facebook Online marketing Social Media News business marketing hashtags marketing Social Media social networking Twitter' What are your thoughts?

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Meet the Fediverse

Ari Herzog

Mastodon, Pleroma, GNU Social, PeerTube, Friendica, and Hubzilla are among the more popular social networking services that collectively form the Fediverse. The larger services have corporate investment, advertisements, and privacy concerns. The Fediverse is open sourced and decentralized. Meet Mastodon.

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Social Network Analysis - KM4DevWiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Social Network Analysis. 1 Social Network Analysis. 13 FAQ KM4Dev Source Materials. 1 Social Network Analysis. 13 FAQ KM4Dev Source Materials. Social Network Analysis. UCINET6 and NetDraw: While I do not have extensive experience mapping out social networks.

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Time for an Update

Net-Savvy Executive

Privacy, surveillance and social media There's been some turmoil as the big social networks (Twitter, in particular) try to balance the values of their network with the value ($) of their network. I looked into organizing a summit on the topic last year, but it's just too hot for an open discussion.

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Former Facebook User Explains Why He Quit

Ari Herzog

More changes are apparently coming to the social networking site that approaches 500 million users. The privacy/ “Like&# issues themselves were not huge for me; I’ve always had very public settings on my profile and I’m generally very open on the web. Facebook has gone rogue. It’s very frightening.

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An Explicit Link Between PRISM and Social Media Intelligence

Net-Savvy Executive

People seem to be expecting a sort of semi-privacy online, but the technology doesn''t have that distinction. Here are the organizations mentioned, along with links to some of their relevant work: Big Brother Watch : Online Privacy Survey. As Wright demonstrates in his article, open-source social media monitoring raises issues, too.