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View in web browser View text-only version Blackberry version Mobile version Add to safe senders list Sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, but which ones can you see on Facebook? Joanna Morley 28 February 2012, 2:54PM The revelation of Facebook's censorship rules has shocked millions around the world. Let's recap briefly. A document given to the staff of a third party content moderation firm by a former disgruntled Facebook moderator, tells them that any obvious sexual activity, even if naked flesh is hidden from view must be deleted immediately by Facebook staff. However, deep flesh wounds and excessive blood are okay to show as are crushed heads and limbs okay as long as no insides are showing. However, depictions of illegal drug use should be deleted, moderators are told, except marijuana, unless the context is clear that the poster is selling/buying/growing. Twitter being turned into "vast market-research enterprise" as tweet archive opened up @gordonmacmillan 28 February 2012, 12:20PM Twitter has signed a deal with a UK based technology company, called Datasift, that will make a two year archive of tweets available to businesses. It will allow firms to search through tweets, and mine the data for market research purposes, all the way back to January 2010. Until now firms could only search back over a 30 day period. Facebook users claim they will quit site over 'too much advertising' Jennifer Whitehead 28 February 2012, 10:50AM Facebook: users say they'll leave, but will they follow through? Facebook users in the UK and America are saying that they will quit Facebook if they are subjected to "too much advertising". Yahoo! threatens Facebook with lawsuit over patents @gordonmacmillan 28 February 2012, 10:04AM The New York Times reports that Yahoo! is looking to force Facebook into licensing as many as 20 patents for technologies, which include advertising, the personalisation of web, social networking and messaging. Los Angeles Times latest to put up a paywall @gordonmacmillan 27 February 2012, 4:17PM The Los Angeles Times is to become the latest major online newspaper to put up a paywall. It announced its plans at the weekend and says it will begin charging from next week. Livingstone team launches "chicken feed" site as it presses attack on Boris @gordonmacmillan 27 February 2012, 12:46PM Ken Livingstone’s team has launched a new website today as Labour presses its attack on Conservative Boris Johnson and his second job with the Daily Telegraph, which pays him £250,000 a year. Combined with his job as London Mayor earns him £400,000 a year. 60 seconds in social media [infographic] Polly Becker 27 February 2012, 11:37AM Nicholas Cage would have trouble driving this lot away. Every minute in social media there are millions of interactions taking place - they happen on Pinterest, Foursquare, Flickr, Tagged, LinkedIn,StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as detailed by this nice infographic here detailing what can happen in a mere 60 seconds in social media. Social Snapshot: UK retail and social media (Part 2: Toys) Jonny Rosemont 27 February 2012, 10:15AM Here's the second snapshot in our sector-by-sector examination of how UK brands are performing in terms of social media. This chapter sees us move away from casual outdoor fashion that we wrote about last time to look at a different end of the retail spectrum… toy shops. Social media doesn't matter in politics @gordonmacmillan 27 February 2012, 9:42AM Interesting piece in Ad Age arguing that social media in politics has no real impact on the outcome. It points in part to research saying that “if no one under the age of 30 had voted, Obama would have won every state he carried with the exception of two” as evidence that it wasn’t the social media savvy who got the president elected, but an older population of Democrats and independents who were galvanised. And the Oscar goes to?the winners according to social media buzz @gordonmacmillan 24 February 2012, 12:47PM Okay so the other day we had the social media predictions for the Brit Awards and they largely proved to be more hit than miss. Here by way of the Cake Group we have, according to the volume of positive mentions on social media, the winners of this weekend’s Oscars. There’s some interesting unexpected results here. 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