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Social networks driving Britain’s mobile Internet growth

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texting-teenagerWith an increase in Internet-friendly mobile phone handsets and “all you can eat” tariffs in the UK, it’s no surprise that a recent survey finds that mobile Internet usage in Britain is soaring.

The CCS Insight survey of 1,000 adults aged between 16 and 35 found that a third of them accessed Facebook and Twitter from their handsets (despite some teens suggesting Twitter is for “old people”).

Men are twice as likely as women to access the Net via their mobile phone, while this age group particularly expects mobile content, and in particular music and video, to be free. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 15, 2009 @ 3:23 am

NoitWorld.com: online auctioning meets social networking

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noitworld-logoNoitWorld.com has been open for just over a month now, and claims to offer a “cooler” and more “consumer friendly online marketplace” than the likes of eBay, with a major selling point being that it’s designed to integrate with popular social media services.

Cofounder Todd Foret (a US Army veteran, hence the site’s name — “noit” means cool or hip in US Military speak) says that because many Internet users spend so long on social media sites, it makes sense to provide tools for buyers and sellers to easily share stuff that way.

So, cool merchandise can be propagated across the likes of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 7, 2009 @ 8:56 am

Facebook introduces Fan Box website widget for important people

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Facebook has announced a new website widget that allows information from Facebook Pages to be embedded elsewhere on the web.

In fact, the service isn’t restricted to “important people” but the announcement makes a big issue out of the celebrities and big organizations who are using it: Lance Armstrong, Kings of Leon, Lenny Kravitz, Roger Federer, ABCNews, Newsweek… [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 9, 2009 @ 11:35 am

Physicians using Web 2.0 tools to help with diagnosis

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I’m all for social media and networks so it wasn’t a huge shock to discover that a lot of doctors, particularly junior ones, are consulting online resources in order to help them diagnose patients and to improve their medical knowledge.

Naturally that doesn’t mean they’re not qualified to do the job, though I really hope they’re choosing the right online media and resource web sites before dishing out advice and medication to patients. After all, we already know the Internet is a hypochondriac’s dream. [Read more…]

Originally posted on July 6, 2009 @ 1:00 pm