On Facebook, We Get More Love Than We Give

We receive significantly more “Likes,” messages, tags and friend requests from our Facebook friends than we send out ourselves, according to a new Pew Internet report.
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Pew: Nearly One-Fifth of U.S. Adults Own Tablets or E-Readers

Back-to-school season may not have spurred a ton of tablet and e-reader purchases, but the holidays were a different story, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.
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Twitter Is So Mainstream Now: Eight Percent of Online Americans Use It

Young, urban, minority, women, well-educated. What do these demographic factors spell out? The categories of American Internet users who are most likely to use Twitter. That’s according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

Hey Facebook, This Launch Better Not Be Boring

Facebook on Monday plans to launch an email service for its users at a press event in San Francisco. The young company has really gotten way too into these show-and-tell events.

The 168-Hour Work Week

If the line between your work and home life hasn’t yet been blurred by near-ubiquitous Internet connectivity, just you wait. Because by 2020 it’s likely to have been erased entirely. That’s the word from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, whose recent “Future of the Internet III” study suggests that the dawn of the mobile phone as a “primary” Internet connection will essentially obliterate the boundaries between work and home.

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'And All This Time I Thought Googling Yourself Meant the Other Thing!'

You’d think that in this age of social networking and Internet stardom, ego surfing would be a near-compulsion among Web surfers. But according to the latest study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, just 47% of Internet users have searched for themselves online (53% say they’ve searched for someone else). Not as many [...]

‘And All This Time I Thought Googling Yourself Meant the Other Thing!’

You’d think that in this age of social networking and Internet stardom, ego surfing would be a near-compulsion among Web surfers. But according to the latest study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, just 47% of Internet users have searched for themselves online (53% say they’ve searched for someone else). Not as many [...]

Web 2.0 Audience in Mirror May Be Smaller Than It Appears

How ironic is it that Web 2.0–the “participatory Web”–has far fewer participants than its architects would have us believe?