Shortened URLs are long web addresses that are compacted for the sake of brevity. They are very popular with users of Twitter, where the total…
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OPLIN 4cast #416: Facebook at Work
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A few weeks ago, The Financial Times reported that Facebook plans to build a version of Facebook for workplace communication, called simply “Facebook at Work.”…
OPLIN 4cast #411: Better emoji
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A few weeks ago, we considered doing a 4cast about emoji. Emoji are not really new, however – we’re just hearing more about them lately –…
OPLIN 4cast #389: Shared sentiments
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Last week, Nextgov reported that the Secret Service has released a request for software to analyze social media data with one of the requested capabilities…
If you spend much time in a city, you are familiar with food trucks, the colorful mobile restaurants that seem to be everywhere from mid-morning…
Unless you spend very little time on the web, you’ve probably been to sites that require you to log in, but give you the option…
Social media can bring about benefits for individuals by connecting them to people and interests they may not have discovered otherwise and for businesses by…
OPLIN 4Cast #270: Pinterest and the law
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Most readers of this blog probably already know about Pinterest, and many are probably Pinterest users. OPLIN staff have not been pushing libraries to jump…
OPLIN 4Cast #269: Social media errors
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Failure is a valuable teaching tool. “Learn from your mistakes,” we’re often told, but it’s even better to learn from others’ mistakes. While many libraries…
It’s difficult to grasp the amount of information people generate each day in the form of short little tweets. Many of these tweets (some people…