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Foursquare publie régulièrement des chiffres pour nous démontrer sa bonne santé, les derniers paliers importants en date étant le million d’inscrits et plus de 40 millions de check-in depuis son lancement. Néanmoins ils restent assez fermés (et c’est plutôt normal) sur le taux d’utilisation, le nombre de membres actifs, les stats par users etc… Je me posais donc la question de l’utilisation réelle du réseau social géoloc et vais tenter d’y apporter une ébauche de réponse dans cet article.

Two students partnered up to take on the latest Internet fad: the online social networks that were exploding into the mainstream. With people signing up in droves to reconnect with classmates and old crushes from high school, and even becoming online “friends” with their family members, the two wondered what the online masses were unknowingly telling the world about themselves. The pair weren’t interested in the embarrassing photos or overripe profiles that attract so much consternation from parents and potential employers. Instead, they wondered whether the basic currency of interactions on a social network - the simple act of “friending” someone online - might reveal something a person might rather keep hidden.

We've all got the vague intuition that Twitter allows you track, in real-time, what people are concerned about or obsessed with. But this is a little freaky: Two researchers at HP Labs, Sitaram Asur and Bernardo Huberman, have discovered that you can actually use Twitter mentions to predict how well a movie will do in it's first couple weekends of release. What's more, the method works even better than the most accurate method currently in use, the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX).

Daytum was conceived in 2008 by Ryan Case and Nicholas Felton as a way of creating an elegant and intuitive way to count and communicate the personal statistics generated by each of us every day.

Un site qui permet d'organiser facilement des données et de les partager ensuite.

An overview of the status of all Google Apps.

Une analyse des articles les plus modifiés et les plus discutés.