Category Archives: social networks

A New Online Community for University Students

Posted on February 28, 2023 by GilPress

Kempus is an online community where students can connect and share course reviews anonymously. Read more

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Best of 2019: How AI Killed Google’s Social Network

Posted on January 9, 2020 by GilPress

[February 4, 2019] Facebook turns 15 today, after announcing last week a record profit and 30% revenue growth. Also today, “you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events,” in anticipation of the complete … Continue reading →

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Ranking of Social Networking Sites, January 2018

Posted on April 8, 2018 by GilPress

Source: Statista

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IDC’s Predictions for Big Data & Analytics, Cloud, Mobile, and Social

Posted on February 17, 2017 by GilPress
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13-Year-Old Facebook Dominates Social Media

Posted on February 3, 2017 by GilPress

  Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 when Thefacebook.com went live. Its home screen read, says David Kirkpatrick in The Facebook Effect, “Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people though social networks at colleges.” Zuckerberg’s classmate Andrew McCollum … Continue reading →

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What has @Facebook Wrought: No More Six Degrees of Separation

Posted on February 4, 2016 by GilPress

Facebook: How connected is the world? Playwrights [1], poets [2], and scientists [3] have proposed that everyone on the planet is connected to everyone else by six other people. In honor of Friends Day, we’ve crunched the Facebook friend graph … Continue reading →

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What Happens on the Web in 60 Seconds (Infographic)

Posted on July 18, 2014 by GilPress

Source: Qmee

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Big Data Quotes: Disruptive Innovation?

Posted on June 30, 2013 by GilPress

“By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. For example, there is a drug that is marketed by Elan BioNeurology called … Continue reading →

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Are You Social, Mr. CEO?

Posted on July 12, 2012 by GilPress

Integrating data from social networks with other data sources is a big reason for companeis to invest in big data technologies and processes.  But at the top, is there sufficient understanding of the value of social networks and the data … Continue reading →

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