When you lose yourself inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests.
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Recently I have been speaking to a range of audiences about how social media technologies and practices can be used inside an organisation. The use of social media inside an organisation is more commonly being referred to as social business. Via Tony Fish Delete the scoop?
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5 interesting predictions here. Although a more profound question is what is the potentual when you merge ALL 5 senses in a mobile phone application?? ("The whole is more than the sum of its parts"). 
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December 18, 2012 10:41 PM
Writers of stories for children and young adults will need to include hearing, smell, taste and touch in their narratives. 
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This prediction could have a strong impact on storytelling. 
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This goes far beyond the idea of Star Trek's Tricorder. Very interesting potential future uses of smartphones. Delete the scoop?
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What does twitter tell us about our social unconscious? Studies are just beginning to scratch the surface of the meaning behind the cacophony of noise we humans put online, but what might be the meaning behind this collective activity? Via Aaron Balick 
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The coolest I’ve found yet (thanks to David Patman) has been the We Feel Fine project defined as “an exploration of human emotion, in six movements. This project searches weblogs across the world for words associated with the statements “I feel” and “I am feeling” and records the feeling associated with that statement”. To quote from their website:
There is a stunning graphic in which you can see, in real time, groupings and clusterings of feelings as they occur. Interestingly, you can filter your searches by feeling, gender, age, weather, location or date, and then view your search in a variety of visually interesting ways. When I looked at it at 8:55 on Tuesday morning the 3rd of July I could see that in Britain the dominant feeling was “better” (circa 130,000 people) followed by “bad” (93,000 then) “good” (77,000). By clicking on individual nodes, you can even gain access to the original text. By doing this, you can get a great deal of detail about the context, as well as the feeling tone. The creators Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar should be highly commended for this work. Delete the scoop?
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Don’t Play GamesWith Me!promises and pitfalls ofgameful designSebastian Deterding (@dingstweets)web directions @media, London, May 27, 2011cb... Via Diogo Pacheco Delete the scoop?
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The App Center is expected to be rolled out globally in "the coming weeks", said Facebook's Aaron Brady in a post on the network's developer blog. "All developers should start preparing today to make sure their app is included for the launch," he wrote. However, Mr Brady said the store was not designed to compete head-on with the likes of Apple's App Store and Google Play. "The App Center is designed to grow mobile apps that use Facebook - whether they're on iOS, Android or the mobile web," he wrote. Via Gary Hayes Delete the scoop?
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When you lose yourself inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests.
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TED Talks Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ... Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks After mapping humans' intricate social networks, Nicholas Christakis and colleague James Fowler began investigating how this information could better our lives. Delete the scoop?
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Stunning new visuals of the brain reveal a deceptively simple pattern of organization in the wiring of this complex organ.
With the global structure of brain region-t0-region communication mapped out, and revealing a simplistic structure, the potential to understand what goes wrong in brain injury should be aided greatly. These crude maps, for the moment, should at least give us a refreshing view on how the different regions might function together.
I can't wait to see what new angles in research come out of this connectome project. Via Carlos Thomas Delete the scoop?
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A new study surveyed 92 college students during their first semester at school, who had a Facebook profile picture that could be coded for smile intensity, and followed them for 3.5 years. Via Dimitris Agorastos Delete the scoop?
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The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel Via Carlos Thomas
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Through the complexity of the Internet and the billions of active nodes (computers), are we heading towards an era where the net feels or can even begin acting like a consciousness? Delete the scoop?
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The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel Via Carlos Thomas 
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Through the complexity of the Internet and the billions of active nodes (computers), are we heading towards an era where the net feels or can even begin acting like a consciousness? Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. Delete the scoop?
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The eighth annual Games for Change symposium, conducted in New York City, June 20-22 at New York University's Skirball Center, showcased the major players and initiatives of the emerging social impact gaming movement. An authentic and functional execution of media convergence, social impact gaming fuses gaming, online interactivity and social media to achieve positive real world outcomes; so naturally, Games for Change included a keynote address from former US Vice President Al Gore. Asi Burak, creator of the groundbreaking game Peacemaker and co-president of Games for Change with Michelle Byrd, maintains, "Featuring Vice President Al Gore as the festival's keynote set the tone that games are mainstream and that games for social change and learning make all the sense in the world." Gore clearly concurred, observing that "People need play, and the potential of gaming combined with social interchange media is huge. The question is, Can games change unsatisfying reality?" Via Gary Hayes Delete the scoop?
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Sight, a short, science fiction film by Israeli student filmmakers is a brilliant take on the emerging world of augmented reality (AR)—the technology behind Google's goofy glasses. The video comes out at an interesting time for AR, just after Google’s “Glass Explorers” have received their welcome letters and amid suggestions through patent activity that Apple may be at work on its own “iGlasses.” What May-raz and Lazo have done is to take consumer AR to its logical, and terrifying, conclusion based on what is happening in the present moment. Their ideas are not wholly original, but they are beautifully executed. A post about the film on VentureBeat points out the similarity of many aspects of the scenario to a particular Star Trek: Original Series episode. And in terms of Google Glass, Lazo wrote in an email to VentureBeat, “The Google Glass video just came out about a day or two after we started work on Sight. It was pretty cool; it kind of gave us an affirmation that we’re on the right path.” Via Gary Hayes Delete the scoop?
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Don’t Play GamesWith Me!promises and pitfalls ofgameful designSebastian Deterding (@dingstweets)web directions @media, London, May 27, 2011cb... Via Diogo Pacheco Delete the scoop?
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Researchers in Norway have published a new psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction, the first of its kind worldwide. Delete the scoop?
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Video: How Coca-Cola makes you think, then act differently to engage you with their brand ... Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how. Delete the scoop?
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Kids like to play games, but can games also make them want to learn? Delete the scoop?
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"[Facebook is] great to get decent reach, but to change the way people interact with a brand overnight is just unrealistic."... Via Martin Talks Delete the scoop?
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