Social Media study of Common Sense Media

This study provides an insight how often 13 to 17 years olds in the U.S. use social media platforms like facebook and twitter. How do they communicate with their families and how is their social life, friendships and family relations influenced by new tools and media? Full study as .pdf Info graphic Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Read More …

Expand your Dropbox storage!

Dropbox is a neat service offering free online storage including a file syncing and sharing client. By registering you’ll receive 2,25 GB, but you can expand that up to 16 GB. You gain more web space by baiting new people to register to dropbox by sharing your referral link, which is a clever mechanism as they make their users advertise Read More …

Google+ first impressions

As usual Google first ignored my begging for an invite on the official page, but Florian Rohrweck (http://www.stilbruch.at) somehow had pity with me and sacrificed one of his invites for me. Thanks a lot, Florian! After one minute on google+ I knew this would be a long night and way too little sleep. The startpage reminded me a little bit Read More …

Thinkup – Create your own Social Media database!

Thinkup is a open source software you can install on your webserver, requiring php 5.2 or higher and a MySQL database. Fine. But want the heck is it good for? Thinkup gathers your social media activities, plus their reactions, like comments, retweets or likes and stores it in your database, so you can sort, export, analyse or display your very Read More …