<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-27T16:41:37+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/6172/1/" /><id>6172</id><summary><![CDATA[Thomas Kostigen Knows Nothing About Social Media]]></summary><issued>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-20T00:53:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I read an article yesterday, blaming Digg for good stories being ignored. More than anything else, his argument shows that Thomas Kostigen has no clue what he is talking about when it comes to social media.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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They don't always have their guard up.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Mobiles]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/42440/1/" /><id>42440</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Mobiles]]></summary><issued>2007-11-25T02:26:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-25T02:26:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Crispin Jones' expression of the impact mobile phones have on society.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/126892/1/" /><id>126892</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Security Numbers Gleaned From Public Data]]></summary><issued>2009-07-06T17:50:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-06T17:50:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For years, government officials have urged people to protect their Social Security numbers by giving out the nine-digit codes only when absolutely necessary. Now it turns out that all the caution in the world may not be enough: New research shows that Social Security numbers can be predicted from publicly available birth information with a surprising degree of accuracy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[California Denies Social Security Benefits to Public Employees]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/114831/1/" /><id>114831</id><summary><![CDATA[California Denies Social Security Benefits to Public Employees]]></summary><issued>2009-05-16T10:56:46+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-16T10:56:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As if being a teacher wasn't hard enough. Turns out you could lose your Social Security benefits if you turned to teaching.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obama: I will tax more of your income for social security]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/41380/1/" /><id>41380</id><summary><![CDATA[Obama: I will tax more of your income for social security]]></summary><issued>2007-11-11T19:49:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-11T19:49:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Hardly surprising that a liberal democrat would want to tax more of your income. Of course reverting social security to something close to its original intent might help, but a plan like that wouldn't buy many votes from the entitlement-minded demographic.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Security Plan B]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/38539/1/" /><id>38539</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Security Plan B]]></summary><issued>2007-10-16T18:07:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-16T18:07:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;We&#8217;ve all heard proposals for &#8220;privatizing&#8221; the Social Security system. The best private solution, of course, is simply to allow the American people to keep more of their paychecks and invest for retirement as they see fit.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Top 5 Social Media Yo Mama Jokes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/127574/1/" /><id>127574</id><summary><![CDATA[Top 5 Social Media Yo Mama Jokes]]></summary><issued>2009-07-13T08:51:59+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-13T08:51:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So about two or three weeks ago I was watching Juice I think and I came up with a couple of IMO really good social media yo mama jokes, since then I have been trying to think of 3 more to get my top 5 list and thanks to a bit of help from Mr David Towers I have them.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130939/1/" /><id>130939</id><summary><![CDATA[Researchers find genetic link between physical pain and social rejection]]></summary><issued>2009-08-17T13:37:46+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-17T13:37:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The findings give weight to the common notion that rejection &quot;hurts&quot; by showing that a gene regulating the body's most potent painkillers &#8212; mu-opioids &#8212; is involved in socially painful experiences too, said study co-author Naomi Eisenberger, UCLA assistant professor of psychology and director of UCLA's Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Social Thermometer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133395/1/" /><id>133395</id><summary><![CDATA[The Social Thermometer]]></summary><issued>2009-09-21T02:21:32+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-21T02:21:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We often describe our social relationships in temperature metaphors, like &#8220;cold shoulder&#8221; or &#8220;warm memories&#8221; or even &#8220;she&#8217;s hot!&#8221; This is no coincidence. An experiment last year from the University of Toronto showed that thinking about an incident where the subject felt socially excluded led them to estimate the room&#8217;s temperature to be lower than those subjects who recalled a better experience.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76424/1/" /><id>76424</id><summary><![CDATA[Social networking dethrones porn as the hottest attraction on the Internet]]></summary><issued>2008-09-16T15:07:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-16T15:07:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Users spend so much time on social networks that they don't have time to look at adult sites.<br/><br/>Gee, I think someone's been looking over our shoulder.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Facebook on its way to being social superpower  ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/130881/1/" /><id>130881</id><summary><![CDATA[Facebook on its way to being social superpower  ]]></summary><issued>2009-08-16T18:37:59+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-16T18:37:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Facebook was born in 2004 as a way for college students to connect with friends. But what does the Palo Alto social media giant want to be when it grows up?<br/><br/>*assbook?*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38656/1/" /><id>38656</id><summary><![CDATA[Marketers are turning to social media sites to boost interest in their business]]></summary><issued>2007-10-17T13:56:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-17T13:56:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An audience of search marketers examining social media sites such as Digg.com and Reddit.com see them as a goldmine of lucrative Web traffic.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Media Predictions For 2009]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85046/1/" /><id>85046</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Media Predictions For 2009]]></summary><issued>2008-12-15T17:40:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-15T17:40:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Fourteen great minds on social media have shared thoughts on what 2009 may have in store for us. Here&#8217;s some of what they&#8217;re thinking:]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social Media Daily Review]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31917/1/" /><id>31917</id><summary><![CDATA[Social Media Daily Review]]></summary><issued>2007-08-17T05:36:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-17T05:36:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[My review of Michelle MacPherson's Social Media Daily guide.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Social networking in Firefox?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/15469/1/" /><id>15469</id><summary><![CDATA[Social networking in Firefox?]]></summary><issued>2007-04-07T07:24:10+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-07T07:24:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mozilla wants to integrate social networking features into Firefox, with new add-on The Coop. It could be a good step in gaining more browser market.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Best practices to survive total social collapse]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/102541/1/" /><id>102541</id><summary><![CDATA[Best practices to survive total social collapse]]></summary><issued>2009-03-27T12:41:52+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-27T12:41:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Interesting article about what might happen if the economy never recovers, written by a guy that lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union.<br/>I don't really think this will happen, but it is an interesting read and I would like to see some discussion.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Buena Vista Social Club]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21734/1/" /><id>21734</id><summary><![CDATA[Buena Vista Social Club]]></summary><issued>2007-05-29T02:45:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-29T02:45:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Great, great music.  Sadly you don't hear this type of music much anymore.  This is a clip from the documentary about Buena Vista Social Club.  If you don't know anything about them, go and rent it.  You won't regret it.]]></content></entry></feed>