A review of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler. Can compulsively searching, instead of merely surfing, lead to greater cognitive benefits for netizens? Short and tweet: There could be hidden benefits to our busy, distracted lives. From The Wilson Quarterly, Tyler Cowen on Three Tweets for the Web: Welcome the new world with open arms — and browsers. The Big Money's Twitter 12 is a list of the 12 companies that are using Twitter most efficiently (and here is TBM's Facebook 50). Getting political on social network sites: Exploring online political discourse on Facebook. Richard Rushfield was confident his new memoir of his college years was accurate, until old friends and enemies started contradicting and questioning his memories on their Facebook profiles. Facebook, the mean girls and me: At 34 years old, I finally feel like a popular seventh-grader — how sad is that? The dark side of "Webtribution": For much of human history, taking revenge on your enemies was too much of a hassle for most people to bother with — thanks to the Internet, it is easier, and nastier, than ever. The rise and fall of MySpace: News Corp’s purchase of the networking site earned Rupert Murdoch instant cache as an internet leader — but four years later, it has become more of a liability (and more). A look at how YouTube has become the People's University of the Internet. Flash flood: the (very short) story of YouTube. Take a look inside the random, and functional real-world offices of Google, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, YouTube and Tumblr.
