Several startups for a while have been working to turn social signals like Tweets into something of value.
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The goal with what you write should always be to get traffic, to provide links and to give social signals.
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It has a wide range of data points including business licenses, inspection reports, Web site information, photos, Yelp reviews, and then a bevy of social signals such as Tweets, check-ins, and Facebook Likes.
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Several major ISPs are starting to rank emails within in-boxes based on social media signals.
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This week's plan for combating social exclusion signals a switch in government thinking.
This test is designed to address situations where neither social nor algorithmic signals are sufficient.
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It might look a statement of the obvious - but it signals that the social network is finally emerging from its state of denial about the true value of "likes", which have been presented as a valuable currency to advertisers.
Just as photos on camera phones needed Instagram's filters for their distribution to grow, and GPS chips went from preventing you from getting lost to Foursquare's social check-ins, so the physiological signals that are currently generating charts, graphs and analysis will eventually be moulded into more social experiences, he argues.
On Monday, DCM Capital, a small and virtually unknown London-based trading house, is set to launch a bold, and potentially risky, platform for retail customers which claims to give users the ability to translate social media sentiment into investible trading signals.
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Matthew 25 has long been a touchstone chapter for moderate and liberal Christians, who say the passage -- "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink" -- signals their focus on social justice concerns over hot-button cultural issues.
As someone who remains a bit skeptical of how much social connections and sharing will provide purchasing intention signals anywhere near as effective as searches, I think the so-called interest graphs that Sparks surfaces could provide potent indicators of intent to purchase products.
The movement also signals the new way that many companies are approaching corporate social responsibility.
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Yet somehow our social lives survived that advance, and that of carrier pigeons and smoke signals before it.
And just as in real life, purchasing an expensive virtual good can send signals of status, wealth and power within virtual worlds and social networks.
On the subject of transparency, I would argue that many signals now point to the need for more systematic analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the investment processes which drive capitalism.
This data springs from such diverse sources as weather, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records and cell phone GPS signals, to name a few.
The timing is awkward: Germany's new Social Democratic-Green government is still unsteady on its feet, and prone to send out erratic signals.
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