New Research Shows That Fortune 100 ceos are Social Media Slackers
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- New Research Shows That Fortune 100 ceos are Social Media Slackers
- Wikipedia kills legendary journalist
- Kosmix tries new twist on search to avoid Google’s dominance
- Companies still frustrated with Chinese order to install filtering …
New Research Shows That Fortune 100 ceos are Social Media Slackers
MarketWatch
The study looked at Fortune’s 2009 list of the top 100 CEs to determine how many were using Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Wikipedia or had a blog. The results showed a dismal level of engagement: — nly two CEs have Twitter accounts. — 13 CEs have LinkedIn profiles and of those only three have more than 10 connections. — 81% of CEs don’t have a personal Facebook page. — Three quarters of the CEs have some kind of Wikipedia entry but nearly a third of those have limited or outdated information.
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Wikipedia kills legendary journalist
Register
Within 48 hours of the untimely death of music journalist Steven Wells his entry has been summarily marked for deletion on the grounds that he isn’t famous enough. Swells as he was known to readers of the NME began his career as punk poet Seething Wells and snuck into music journalism as Susan Williams. He became infamous for his provocative writing which took the form of uniquely splenetic caps-augmented splutterfests crammed to bursting with swears. Fans of Sonic Youth and the Smiths into whom he laid with great vigour would be incensed but many readers were thrilled by his unapologetic screeds – and far from simply hating everything Swells would shout just as loudly and swearingly in support of the music he loved.
Kosmix tries new twist on search to avoid Google’s dominance
San Jose Mercury News
To look up say wonton soup on the search giants leads the user to a list of blue links some with photos. Kosmix delivers a multimedia showcase. The page is topped by a Wikipedia summary and a quick scroll leads to a sizable window for how-to videos blog commentary and conversations nutritional data and more. A column on the right includes items like Chinese cookbooks on eBay and 24-pack instant wonton shiitake soup from Amazon. There Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); are also a few “sponsored links” — the advertising that is key to the Kosmix business model. As one blogger described it Kosmix delivers “an instant encyclopedia page but on crazy-awesome Internet steroids.
Companies still frustrated with Chinese order to install filtering …
DailyTech
To avoid the ban in China Microsoft’s Bing search engine is reportedly filtering out some sensitive searches carried out through the search portal written in traditional Chinese. Any IP address based in China filters out content deemed inappropriate by the Chinese government allowing the search engine to continue operating in the country. Foreign companies operating inside China must tread carefully with YouTube Wikipedia and a handful of news web sites also facing temporary bans. The temporary Google block comes at the same time PC manufacturers are working to install the mandatory “Green Dam Youth Escort” software on all desktop PCs and laptops sold in the country. The filter has drawn international criticism with US officials pleading with China to leave behind its plans to use the filter. There has been concern not only because of major censorship issues but possible security holes and.
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