Internet pundits and VC’s have been shouting for some time about the discovery potential of social networking–the idea that your friends and contacts are the best arbiters of what you might like, and ...

Founded by Flickr's Caterina Fake and a team of MIT graduates, Hunch was designed as a collective intelligence decision-making system that predicts what you will enjoy based on past decisions. As the ...

On January 15, 2013, Facebook’s much anticipated search engine, Facebook Graph Search, finally launched, making finding the people you’re looking for on the platform that much easier. For social ...

A clever visual abstract or infographic can be the difference between a research paper having widespread impact or limited reach. While infographics are a great way of conveying information to a ...

We've all seen presentations that made us wonder, "What, exactly, is that graph saying? What am I looking at?" Hopefully, we haven't all given those presentations, but let's be honest—many of us ...

An infographic from Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden presents data to show why supply-side economics doesn't work. The positions of American Progress, and our policy experts, are independent, and ...

Want to think about the power of social data, then you don’t need to go much further than the one trillion social connections on Facebook and its increasing footprint in local search. Want to think ...

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