Laurel Papworth

MARCH 28, 2012

Online social gaming company, Rockyou with 32 million gamers, and $129,000,000 of funding, got fined $250,000 for revealing the usernames and passwords of their online community members, and putting at risk their webmail (Gmail, Yahoo etc) accounts. That would be us. Astonishing. UNLESS those accounts are hacked and stolen.

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Firebelly

MARCH 5, 2010

Women Use Social Mobile More Than Men By Tiphereth Gloria Nielsen posted these mobile social stats from December 2009 about the gender differences when accessing social networks via mobile devices. As it escalates, however, it unlocks opportunities that are commensurate with the community’s assessment of its value.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

It was a fantastic illustration that you have in the book that shows your own personal media usage habits and the channels across the social Web that you used a few years ago versus the ones that you use now. Flickr, going back to FriendFeed and Plurk and things that we don’t necessarily use now. That fosters community.

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Klout Social Capital Influencer Social Graph 121

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. After all, the full disclosure is that I am the community and marketing director of Mashable. Great post!

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