Commonplace books from the collection of Professor William St Clair

Facebook's precursor

14 July 2011

'Commonplace books' were scrapbooks into which people copied their favourite poems and collected together other items – and were used as the basis for an early version of social networking.

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New ways to reduce bullying and youth violence

05 July 2011

Many children and adolescents suffer physically and mentally from being bullied or physically attacked and threatened by their peers. A conference at Cambridge University will bring together researchers from across Europe to share knowledge about how bullying and youth violence can be prevented more effectively.

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#twitterbrain network image

Neuro-tweets: #hashtagging the brain

06 May 2011

We like to think the human brain is special, something different from other brains and information processing systems, but a Cambridge professor set out to test that assumption – by conducting a live experiment using Twitter.

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A screengrab of Barack Obama's typical Facebook fan from LikeAudience.

With friends like these…

22 April 2011

Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to create what they are describing as a “revolutionary” new marketing tool.

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