As the President Obama won the 2008's election by tapping into social media and analyzing social data, experts emphasize analytics of big data in the coming presidential election. During the 08's election, the Obama team dived into various online social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, and collected user data to develop online campaign strategy. The result proved the effectiveness of the data efforts.
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LG launched new information organizing app. The 3D newsfeed enable users to see their Facebook newsfeed in 3D view. The app works with various elements of the newsfeed, including how posts are displayed, navigation, depth, movement, colors, 'likes' and content representation.
Facebook’s “Timeline” feature which was introduced in December 2011 has now been made mandatory. This feature allows the users to highlight photos, events and posts from the past on their profiles and create a story that represents their life in the way they want to share it with the world.
Have you ever had difficulty in organizing pictures on your computer? Growing use of taking photos with mobile camera, the time we consume to extract, organize, and maintain them is rapidly increased. In many cases, we just create a random folder on background, copy the photos from mobile to the folder, and forget them. Once we want to see or upload those photos on Facebook or blogs later, we need to explore the random folders tree for a while and even cannot find them due to mistaken removal.
Between investigating the best restaurants, safe travel routes and must-see destinations, planning a trip can be downright time-consuming, and above all else, frustrating for the user. Even worse? Often times, users must hop from site to site in search of the travel information they need. Hopper—the startup trying to impose structure on the scattered landscape of consumer-travel data—aims to streamline the travel discovery process in one place. (In INFO 202 speak, essentially a library comprised of travel-related content from around the web.)