Media Monitor- March 10th
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Facebook: What the Social Network Knows About You
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- On today #39;s "Off The Charts," Scarlet Fu looks at a Cambridge University study that examines what Facebook "likes" reveal about users....
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Facebook and Twitter are no longer convenient excuses for students to distract themselves in class.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham announced this week it will offer a graduate certificate in social media.
The unique program is intended for working professionals interested in leveraging social media for business purposes, according to Molly Wasko, chair of the department of management, information systems and quantitative methods.
"It could be folks in marketing positions that maybe graduated 10 years ago, before these things were even available," she said.
In addition to classes that teach students the strategic and marketing value of social media, the program instructs students how to use Web analytic reports and digital trace data for business purposes.
"Every time you do something via technology, you leave a trace," Wasko said. "We have found tremendous value in that trace data for marketing purposes and for IT purposes. It certainly helps give you better insights into your customers' behavior."
According to Eileen Markstein, managing director of Markstein Consulting, a Birmingham-based firm that offers its customers social networking and other services, workers with social-media backgrounds are finding increased demand for their skill set.
"There are some businesses that are coming still coming around to seeing the real value, but the value is there, and it's only going to increase," she said.
Markstein said social media is only one part of an effective public-relations or marketing campaign and should be used only to develop relations with a target audience.
"It's not a sales tool. It's a conversation tool," she said.
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TORONTO, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Keek, the leading mobile social video network, continues its growth globally, becomes the number one social networking app in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Keek credits strong community growth, user engagement and recent infrastructure upgrades as a few of the reasons for reaching the top spot in these three influential markets.
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The popularity of Keek is having ripple effects across the world. After climbing to the number one spot overall in the Middle East over the past three months, Keek has spread quickly through Europe and Africa and is starting to show rapid adoption in South America. Over 200,000 new users are joining Keek daily and the platform is serving 83 million pages per day.
A recent infrastructure investment to meet growth demands has resulted in several significant performance improvements to video upload speed and playback. The upgrades have had a major impact on the volume of content consumed and shared. Keek users are watching over 500 million videos and uploading 4 million videos per month. Keek has the most content shared to other networks within the social video category and currently averages 200,000 videos shared to Twitter per day.
"Keek is ranking number one for a reason," states Isaac Raichyk, Founder and CEO of Keek. "Users like that our app is extremely fast, fun and easy to use. We are obsessed with speed and our goal is to keep Keek fast, fun and free as we continue to grow."
About Keek
Keek is a privately held social networking platform that allows users to create 36-second videos ("keeks") using webcam, iPhone, Android or BlackBerry 10 devices and share them with others around the world. Users follow, subscribe and respond to videos with either text comments or video replies ("keekbacks"). Keek is simple to use, extremely fast and 100% free. The app is available in BlackBerry World, the App Store and Google Play. http://www.keek.com/
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Neanderthals' bigger eyes and bodies meant they had less brain space to dedicate to social networking, which may explain why they died out and Homo sapiens conquered the planet, according to a new study.
An enigmatic branch of the human family tree, Neanderthals lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and Middle East for up to 300,000 years but vanished from the fossil record about 30-40,000 years ago.
Why they disappeared is one of the hottest topics in anthropology. Theories say they may have been victims of climate change or were massacred by their H. sapiens cousins.
Now experts from the University of Oxford and the Natural History Museum in London suggest the answer could lie in available brainpower.
Neanderthals were stockier than anatomically modern humans who shared the planet with them at the time of their demise, but their brains were the same size, the team write in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
As a result, Neanderthals "would have required proportionately more neural matter" to maintain and control their larger bodies, they say.
Comparing the skulls of 32 H. sapiens and 13 Neanderthals, the researchers also established the hominids had bigger eye sockets, indicating bigger eyes and visual cortices -- those areas of the brain that regulate vision.
"More of the Neanderthal brain would have been dedicated to vision and body control, leaving less brain to deal with other functions like social networking," explained Oxford anthropologist and lead author Eiluned Pearce.
Among living primates and humans, the size of an individual's social network is constrained by the size of specific brain areas, she said.
The larger these areas are, the more connections an individual can maintain.
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