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How many Social Networks do you belong to? Listen as Poetri takes on these websites for CHALLENGE # 3!!!

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Nicholas Christakis turns the notion of the self-directed individual on its head, and shows us the extraordinary power of Social Networks.

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http://www.ted.com We’re all embedded in vast Social Networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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English introduction video for Scoutle.com, an innovative social network using ‘Automated Social Networking’.

With Scoutle your blog or website will continuously be rated and linked to similar people or websites which allows you to promote your website in a unique way. Scoutle will give you the recognition and appreciation your website deserves and results in more and more interested visitors.

Try Scoutle! It’s free and helps you to become connected to interesting people, without having to do anything. Login using OpenID, connect to your Twitter, use Scoutle on your mobile, create Networks, keep in touch with your personal RSS Feed… Discover all possibilities Scoutle has to offer. Don’t forget to tell your friends about Scoutle but most important… start using Scoutle today. It’s the best way of getting to know what it is and how it works!

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/09/26/Up_Close_and_Personal_Share_Your_Life

Co-founders of social networking sites Jaiku, Twitter and Dopplr discuss the benefits of online Social Networks.

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“Up Close and Personal: Share Your Life,” featuring Jyri Engestrom, Biz Stone, Raymond Spanjar, Felix Peterson, and Matt Biddulph, with moderator Linda Stone.

Where are you? What are you doing? Simple questions, simple answers, essential to our social existence. Twitter, Jaiku, Plazes, Dopplr and Hyves help us to share our lives with friends, family, anyone, anywhere. This session explores our existence and contact in an always-’on’ world.- PICNIC

Jyri Engestrom is co-founder of jaiku.com, a mobile social software startup. He is also Founder and Vice-Chairman of Aula Network, a nonprofit to advance the vision of a creative society. Jyri incubated start-ups at Tera Group, a venture capital partnership, and co-founded ShiftControl, an online recruiting company based on friend-to-friend referrals. Prior to that he worked as a Concept Designer at Satama Interactive, where he co-led the design of Nokia.com. Jyri is working on a Ph.D on innovation at the Management School at Lancaster University, UK. He holds a Master’s degree in sociology from the University of Helsinki. He maintains a weblog at zengestrom.com.

Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, Inc and also helped make Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Biz sometimes writes books about what people are doing on the Internet. Interested in what he is up to? Follow his Twitter trail at twitter.com/biz, or read his blog at www.bizstone.com.

Matt Biddulph is a creative technologist who works with companies like Nature, Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream. He is also the CTO of Dopplr, a social network for frequent travellers.

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I saw this story on the morning news today…seems like all I watch is Fox 13 news! “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” author Stephen Covey announced a new social networking site that seems really useful. Dr. Covey has left his stamp on the world of web 2.0 social networking.

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Are you just being nice when you tell a friend that his or her artwork looks good? And are your friends just humoring you when they tell you that your work is cool?

It’s all about the psychology. I failed miserably as an artist. My friends used to tell me that my work wasn’t even good, but it wasn’t that bad! I used to draw items laid out in front of me and turn them into black chunky masses of charcoal within ten minutes, so I knew my peers were lying. It was all in their initial reactions and the way they said it.

I struggled with stumps of charcoal for hours on end trying to draw and reproduce my imagination on a 36″ x 48″ blank canvas, and my friends used to walk into my dorm room and fall over themselves with laughter! Now, I still have some great friends, and I have never dreamed of being a world-renowned art contemporary artist because I’ve never been any good at it. I’ve had to channel my talents in all sorts of other directions. But let e tell you, it’s a telltale sign that an artwork is not the best if it gets laughed at by everybody when they first see it! Damn art school!

A long pause can also say it all, just as obviously as laughter. If it takes someone more than two seconds to comment on an art contemporary piece then the artwork in question probably stinks. I apologize, but whether it’s yours or your friends, feelings are going to get shot down!

Art contemporary is ideal for everybody, and any form of self-expression in the modern day is art contemporary, but some things just won’t make the grade on any levels set out by anyone. However, having said that, I think that it’s important to remember that an artist shouldn’t set out to please anybody when creating something new. If it is true art contemporary, then it has to come from inside the artist. Don’t you think?

www.arttraffic.co.uk is the home of the best art contemporary anywhere on the internet. Online artwork is getting more and more popular as online sales of anything soar around the globe; it’s only natural. Museums, exhibitions and galleries are out. Art Traffic is in; right there at the center, showcasing the best art contemporary available, and Art Traffic boasts any good form of art contemporary. So do not fear, even if your friends don’t like your work, or vice versa, others probably will do. Get involved at Art Traffic, www.arttraffic.co.uk.

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Learn more about art contemporary. Stop by Arttraffic’s site where you can find out all about Arttraffic and what it can do for you.

We’re sure you know of a few ‘social butterflies’ – those people with thousands of friends on their networks. We decided to find out how many of those friends would mobilise at their call by giving them 24 hours and the use of a Samsung Corby S3650 phone with built-in social networking features.

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Seems like all anyone ever talks about is Twitter this, Facebook that. Well, guess what? You’ve got more options when it comes to connecting with friends and like-minded folks online! Check out two of my favorite new Social Networks that bring a unique approach to the web.

Links I mention:

Simler – http://simler.com
Hunch – http://hunch.com

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Search your friends for better results

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