Twitter, Facebook Just 'Virtual Ballrooms'

ools don't matter, and the best ones get out of the way, allowing people to connect more easily and effectively. That was my big takeaway from last Friday's second-annual Blog Potomac.

Obsessing about "what's next" in online services and technology saps too much valuable attention away from what's really important: connecting with people. We need to stop obsessing on what comes after Twitter and focus instead on how best to connect to, communicate with and relate to our clients, colleagues and consumers.

Here's why: The internet, with all of those fun time-sync tools, is supposed to make connecting with people more efficient. Social networks, blogs, microblogs and forums destroy the previously prohibitive barriers to efficient communications: moving people physically around the planet and making sure they're in the same place at the same time. But the downside of all of this efficiency is that too many of us lose track of the forest for the trees.

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Derinlemesine Twitter Analizi – 1: Twitter’i Kimler, Nasıl Kullanıyor?

Derinlemesine Twitter Analizi – 1: Twitter’i Kimler, Nasıl Kullanıyor?: "
Twitter, internetin en popüler çocuğu olma yolunda gerçekten hızlı adımlarla ilerliyor. Sosyal ağ ve blog kavramlarından sonra internetin en etkili ve belki de en hızlı rüzgarlarından biri olan mikroblogging dönemini başlatan Twitter’ın son durumunu paylaşan bir analiz küçük mavi kuş hakkında çarpıcı bilgiler sunuyor.

Analize bakılırsa Twitter, en büyük çıkış yakaladığı dönem olan 2009′un ilk 5 ayında üyelerinin %72.5‘ini kazanmış ki bunu Twitter’ın Google Trend istatistiklerine bakarak da tahmin edebiliriz. Tweet’leyen kullanıcıların %65′i 25 yaş altında gösterilirken, bayanlar tüm kullanıcıların %53′ü erkekler ise %47’si olarak belirlenmiş.


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Winwatch wants RFID tags in your next wristwatch -- what could possibly go wrong?

Winwatch wants RFID tags in your next wristwatch -- what could possibly go wrong?: "

Looking to simultaneously trick your employees into thinking you love them and keep better tabs on their whereabouts? If so, you should definitely look into handing out Winwatch-approved timepieces as 'performance incentives,' which should be sporting an oh-so-telling RFID tag in the near future. The Switzerland-based outfit has just announced plans to patent an RFID-enabled crystal gasket that would be placed in luxury wristwatches, and while they're pushing it as a way for companies to weed out counterfeit products, we're sure the privacy advocates in attendance can think of far darker applications. Samples are slated to start shipping out later this autumn, which means your window to snag a non-voyeuristic watch is hastily closing.

[Via ABlogToRead]
Filed under: Wearables, Wireless

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What Keeps Us Online Late at Night: Porn, Games, and Chat

study of online behavior conducted by security firm Arbor Networks reveals that the prime time on the Internet may be later than you’d think. It also reveals the habits of late-night surfers, which boils down to surfing the web and watching videos (a large amount of which are adult content), chatting and gaming.

In what is perhaps the largest study of Internet traffic’s temporal characteristics, the folks at Arbor have used data from the Internet Observatory and analyzed weekday application traffic flowing through 110 geographically diverse Internet service providers. What they’ve found is somewhat surprising: US Internet traffic is at its peak at 11pm EDT, and it stays relatively high until 3am in the morning.

Once upon a time, Internet traffic peaked somewhere around 8 AM, when most people come to work. But people are obviously surfing just as much, or even more, from their homes.

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Tracking System Benefits Pakistani Infants, Doctors

A collaborative program is helping doctors track and treat the incidence of pneumonia in their patients by scanning NFC-based RFID tags on infants' bracelets.

By Claire Swedberg

Aug. 31, 2009—RFID-enabled cell phones and ID bracelets can help doctors provide infants with better and more efficient care through the sharing of data among several dozen doctors and facilities, according to a study currently underway in Karachi, Pakistan. Thousands of infants in that city have been participating in a study the frequency of pneumonia occurrence, while their health record is being tracked by health-care workers using phones to scan passive 13.56 MHz RFID tags embedded in ID bracelets.

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Under-the-skin ID chips move toward U.S. hospitals

VeriChip, the company that makes radio frequency identification--RFID--tags for humans, has moved one step closer to getting its technology into hospitals.
The Federal Drug Administration issued a ruling Tuesday that essentially begins a final review process that will determine whether hospitals can use RFID systems from the Palm Beach, Fla.-based company to identify patients and/or permit relevant hospital staff to access medical records, said Angela Fulcher, vice president of marketing and sales at VeriChip.

VeriChip sells 11-millimeter RFID tags that get implanted in the fatty tissue below the right tricep. When near one of Verichip's scanners, the chip wakes up and radios an ID number to the scanner. If the number matches an ID number in a database, a person with the chip under his or her skin can enter a secured room or complete a financial transaction.

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Identity Badge Worn Under Skin Approved for Use in Health Care

he Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for a Florida company to market implantable chips that would provide easy access to individual medical records.

The approval, which the company announced yesterday, is expected to bring to public attention a simmering debate over a technology that has evoked Orwellian overtones for privacy advocates and fueled fears of widespread tracking of people with implanted radio frequency tags, even though that ability does not yet exist.

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