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Someone saw their wife’s photo ina singles ad on Facebook. Apparently unless you adjust the privacy settings in the right way it is fine for Facebook to use your pics in ads…

“A practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact.”

“Discovering and developing the nation’s digital health through productivity training, design consultancy and the invention of new online services.”

“Discovering and developing the nation’s digital health through productivity training, design consultancy and the invention of new online services.”

“Other people have tweeted (or retweeted) the Guardian’s URLs 328,288 times over the last 4 months – way more than any other UK newspaper.”

“Students need to be proactive, using social networking sites to rapidly build new networks with high quality connections in organisations or industries they might want to enter. They need to use sites such as Twitter to take advantage of breaking news and current issues to create energy and develop activities in real time: build up a project, set up a charity venture, connect with others on-line who have similar interests, as things are actually happening.”

“But here’s a nice little McKinsey piece about system thinking, natural and economic disasters. Go ahead, read it but ponder the latter stretch particularly the suggestions…

“Too much of our thinking in marketing, management and politics is about the particular (the individual, the particular brand) without really enough attention being paid to the system within which that exists…”

“SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.”

This seems mad, then you look more closely (and watch the video and it starts to seem really lovely… “Our concept is to bring back the way Despina worked, with her and her friends socializing while sewing. Our idea involved making a networked object that lets her and friends interact without being face to face. This allows them to gossip and chat about their creations as they do them. Each friend would be represented by a mini sewing machine, that is a transmitter and a receiver.”