If hedge-fund managers are playing a zero-sum game, what is their social utility?
Behavioral economists (and women) highlight the social utility of gift-giving: When well chosen, gifts help create a bond between spouses or friends or even casual acquaintances.
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But as its growth slows, I wonder if essentially becoming a social utility that Zuckerberg long said Facebook should be is distinctive enough a mission to maintain its momentum.
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If someone has already received more than his or her just financial deserts for what they do in life, the knighthood might then look like an institutionalised form of having your cake and eating it: lovely for the recipient, but perhaps of limited social utility.
Company officials note that thanks to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, the world has been taught how to use the new social media utility, but unlike the others, Cancer.im is more than a social network.
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Reddit is a great example of a site that has become far more than simply a social-networking or link-sharing utility and has grown into a real online community that can get things done.
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These include the taxes that companies pay on their profits, along with workers' Social Security taxes, property taxes, utility taxes, corporate excise taxes, among others--all passed along to you in the form of higher prices.
Its users may find the utility of searching their own social graph to be hit-or-miss, but they also may find themselves feeling much more exposed in the searches of others than they ever intended to be.
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In Denver, the Reddit tour met up with Simple Energy, a startup that helps utility companies encourage energy reduction by tapping into existing social networks.
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In our work on social initiatives for clients, we have discovered that success by which we mean the extent to which people share the brand or information about the brand as part of their everyday social lives at work or at home (in other words, brand loyalty) comes down to what we call the Social Sixes: Affiliation, Identity, Information, Conversation, Utility and Advocacy.
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Social media channels, consumer education and loyalty programs from the local utility can certainly help.
In sum, the more unbounded social-engineering power the Congress gives the FCC, the less value and utility this highly valuable spectrum will have to users, taxpayers and the economy writ large.
If Facebook truly becomes the social network hub of the world then that will end up being regulated as a utility just like the power companies have been.
They must also prove residency in New Haven with two utility bills, a pay stub, tax statements, or documents from health and social-service agencies.
It turned out to be more of a utility than anything else, a utility that people can use to build products on top of and use to form social groups and it changes it every time they use it.
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By learning about the benefits from solar power systems from a trusted peer who faces many of the same local challenges (utility, construction, permitting options, siting), research from Yale and New York University demonstrates that social solar has already been shown to boost adoption rates by close to a percentage point.
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