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‘Facebookgate’ unraveled by a couple college recruiters
Facebook’s incredible growth is proving irresistible for some unsavory marketing. In what was dubbed last week as “Facebookgate,” a college guide may have used Facebook Groups, fake accounts, and “savvy understanding of some behavioral dynamics inside Facebook,” the blog Inside Facebook said, to build a mailing list for the nation’s college class of 2013. This…
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Trends in my random patterns
Is that you? I took this free personality test. I’m not sure it nailed me; I guess those that know me would have to weigh in, but it’s fun … and I expect it’ll be viral. (via Jay Rosen)
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Trust me, if it happened, it’s covered on Twitter
As I’ve noted before, Twitter is a unique communication service that just may be the best innovation in breaking news in the last couple of years. Here’s Loic Le Meur on the Denver Continental plane fire last night. A guy tweetering from the plane crashhttps://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/12/follow-the-plan.htmlHe notes the Twitter user had better information than the official…