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25Nov

Infographic: How to Use Google Search More Effectively

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 25, 2011.
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Among certain circles (my family, some of my coworkers, etc.) I’m known for my Googling skills. I can find anything, anywhere, in no time flat. My Google-fu is a helpful skill, but not one that’s shrouded in too much mystery — I’ve just mastered some very helpful search tricks and shortcuts and learned to quickly identify the best info in a list of results.

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24Nov

Half Of All Online Shoppers Are Logged In To Facebook

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 24, 2011.
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Customers may not be on Facebook while shopping online, but there’s a 50.8 percent chance they are logged into the social network via plugins.

Sociable Labs found that 50.8 percent of traffic to its customers’ shopping sites were still logged into Facebook in October, versus figures of 40 percent through 60 percent across all of the sites the company supports.

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23Nov

Next-Gen Bionic contact lens to project emails before eyes

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 23, 2011.
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A new generation of contact lenses that project images in front of the eyes is a step closer after successful animal trials, say scientists. The technology could allow wearers to read floating texts and emails or augment their sight with computer-generated images, Terminator-syle.

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23Nov

New Kinect For Windows Adds Motion Control To The Common PC

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 23, 2011.
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The phrase “six degrees of separation” became synonymous with social media back when Friendster was cool, but now it turns out that people are actually more closely connected on Facebook.

Make that 4.74 degrees of separation, according to Facebook’s data team. That’s the average number of people separating any two individuals on the social network.

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23Nov

Facebook Makes the World Smaller, Shrinks 6 Degrees of Separation to 4

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 23, 2011.
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A theory stemming from an experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s claims every living person is connected to any other through only six friends. According to a recent study, Facebook reduces the six degrees of separation to only four, meaning the world’s largest social network makes the world even smaller (figuratively).

The study, a joint effort by Facebook and Università degli Studi di Milano, shows that the number of “hops” separating any two persons on Facebook is in fact smaller than six. According to the study, “99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops), 92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops),” with the average “distance” between users getting smaller over time.

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22Nov

Facebook Timeline Faces Another Legal Delay

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 22, 2011.
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The trademark lawsuit filed by Timelines.com to block Facebook’s use of the term “timeline” is experiencing a delay, making the official rollout of the advanced profile before year end unlikely.

The site paidContent reported that a federal judge agreed to postpone a hearing originally scheduled for December to Jan. 24, as Doug Albrittion, a lawyer representing the Chicago-based developer of historical web content, said more time was needed to agree upon a discovery schedule.

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22Nov

Microsoft Streamlines Windows Install, With An Eye To Web Distribution And Ease Of Use

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Microsoft Streamlines Windows Install, With An Eye To Web Distribution And Ease Of Use

Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 22, 2011.
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Installing Windows has always been something of a joke. Not always warranted, of course, but we all know how funny and catastrophic anecdotes outlive the less thrilling reality of something as commonplace as an OS install. Yet we all have heard a few horror stories about Windows installs, or at the very least joked about how long it often takes.

Microsoft actually went to some lengths in Windows 7 to correct this soft spot of theirs, and it’s true that the installation process is simpler and better. Seeing how well this was received, and also noting a number of market trends worth integrating, they are now taking the improvements a step further with Windows 8. A one-click install or upgrade is still a ways out, but the new features are kin with Windows 8′s approach of marrying stability with mobility.

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22Nov

How to Enable the New YouTube Design Now

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 22, 2011.
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Word on the street is that YouTube has a slick new design. It’s a revamped homepage with some pretty tight Google+ social integration and content discovery features.

But if you’ve fired up your trusty Internet machine and the new YouTube hasn’t yet appeared for you, don’t fret. Our friends at The Verge have figured out an easy way (via Google+ user Mortiz Tolxdorff) to turn on the new features right the heck now.

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22Nov

What if you could collect all of the world’s data into one place?

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 22, 2011.
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Occasionally we see some learned organization counting the number of bytes of data that humans have produced to date. And I’ve been known to scoff at these projections.

Seriously folks, even if you think that the number is 789.332 yottabyes on some given day–let’s say today–the number is bigger tomorrow. And it gets bigger the next day. Even the rate of growth of the world’s collective data is meaningless. Who would ever try to collect it all in one place and do something with it?

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22Nov

Can Vertical Acuity Stop Your Site Losing Visitors?

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Contributed by: Alex Woodward for Volumatrix Group on November 22, 2011.
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Google, Facebook and Twitter allow users to bounce between different publications’ websites — often to the detriment of those publications’ revenue.

Vertical Acuity wants to reduce this bouncing by turning sites into platforms for discovering content from other publications. Its year-old content syndication platform lets websites post each others’ content.

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