{"id":5709,"date":"2010-11-16T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhgrealestateblog.com\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:24:26","slug":"the-report-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/the-report-28\/","title":{"rendered":"The REport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Call it Newton\u2019s law of social media: The equal and opposite reaction to large networks of friends is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=131331888\">Personal Networking<\/a>.\u00a0 From one of the founders of Facebook, whose stats page says the average <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/press\/info.php?statistics\">user has 130 friends,<\/a> comes <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/11\/15\/path-launches\/\">Path<\/a>, a new network focused on photo sharing which limits the number of connections to a user\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/mikeisaac\/2010\/11\/14\/new-social-network-path-iphone-instagram-facebook-499999950-friends\/\"> 50 closest friends and family.<\/a> Currently available on the iPhone, people can share cell phone photos to their closest-knit group. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2010\/11\/15\/businessinsider-path-launches-to-save-you-from-facebook-2010-11.DTL\">The founders <\/a>decided on the magic number based on research by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/15\/technology\/15photo.html?src=busln\">Robin Dunbar,<\/a> an anthropologist who determined that 150 is the maximum number of social connections a human can have.\u00a0 Are you feeling the need to trim down the digital connections you have?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It\u2019s official: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/web\/news\/2010\/11\/facebooks-new-messaging-system-mashes-up-sms-e-mail-im.ars\">Facebook<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1418047220101115\">taking on Google<\/a> in the email department.\u00a0 The social giant announced that its 500 million plus users will have an optional <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/technologylive\/post\/2010\/11\/facebook-email-is-coming-sort-of\/1\">Facebook email address.<\/a> Mark Zuckerberg is positioning it as an optimized \u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9196581\/Facebook_unveils_new_messaging_system\">messaging system<\/a>\u201d which will consolidate a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40197663\/ns\/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets\/\">member\u2019s communication<\/a> into one place, including the option to send messages to email addresses on other domains. (A few things missing, though, are a subject line and a BCC\/CC line.)\u00a0 Would you dump your GMail to consolidate to one Facebook account?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Daydream <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UQNqk54HPdE\">believer<\/a> \u2026Harvard researchers using the iPhone app <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/11\/12\/iphone-app-measures-happiness\/\">\u201cTrack Your Happiness,\u201d<\/a> which contacts users at random times to ask if they are happy, found that nearly 47 percent of the time people were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/health\/blog\/2010\/11\/dont_daydream_b.html\">day dreaming<\/a> and those who did have their head in the clouds were more likely to say they were unhappy. \u00a0Do you consider yourself a realistic daydreamer?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Perhaps your mind wanders to being in the audience of your favorite artist\u2019s concert\u2026Twitter announced that it will be linking its platform to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6AA46R20101111\">Apple\u2019s Ping social network.<\/a> Users can now <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/11\/11\/itunes-ping-actually-goes-social-with-full-twitter-integration-facebook-still-mia\/\">tweet 90-second song previews<\/a> of their favorite artists. \u00a0I wonder how much play the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2010-11-16-beatles-itunes_N.htm\">Beatles<\/a> will get now that they are on iTunes? \u00a0The search is on for my connection with the best taste in music\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Offering everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/fea\/taste\/stories\/DN-foodcart_01met.ART.State.Edition1.332e6ce.html\">gourmet Korean barbeque<\/a> to falafels to dumplings, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/11\/09\/zagat-food-trucks\/\">food trucks<\/a> now compete for customers with established brick and mortar restaurants.\u00a0 The authority on restaurants, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicauthority.com\/foodie-buzz\/zagat-makes-finding-food-trucks-easier.html\">Zagat,<\/a> has even launched an interactive map with reviews and ratings of these mobile meals.\u00a0 When was the last time you had a meal from a truck?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What will be the must-have gift this holiday season? 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