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How Social Media Is Taking Over the News Industry [INFOGRAPHIC]

A Completely Useless Chart On Google+

The chart that you see  is what Google wants you to think is happening with Google+. It wants you to think the service is taking off.

The truth of the matter is that we just don’t know because Google won’t tell us.

Instagram’s $1 Billion Sale In Context. The acquisition prices for photo sites going back 15 years.

Instagram just may be the most capital-efficient company in the world. It’s got barely a handful of employees and tens of millions of users. It’s hard to understate the effect that such leverage has on value. 

How Grabby Are Your Facebook Apps?

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Social Media Discovery Sites On The Rise

Why ‘Slacktivists’ Are More Active Than You Think [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Social Media Statistics Of Fortune 500 Companies [INFOGRAPHIC]

Competition among memes in a world with limited attention

he wide adoption of social media has increased the competition among ideas for our finite attention. We employ a parsimonious agent-based model to study whether such a competition may affect the popularity of different memes, the diversity of information we are exposed to, and the fading of our collective interests for specific topics. Agents share messages on a social network but can only pay attention to a portion of the information they receive. In the emerging dynamics of information diffusion, a few memes go viral while most do not. The predictions of our model are consistent with empirical data from Twitter, a popular microblogging platform. Surprisingly, we can explain the massive heterogeneity in the popularity and persistence of memes as deriving from a combination of the competition for our limited attention and the structure of the social network, without the need to assume different intrinsic values among ideas.