Archive for January 18th, 2013

Happy Birthday from Facebook and your lazy friend …

January 18, 2013

Punch line: Facebook takes a crack at monetizing the site for retailers, adding a ‘Gifts’ feature that allows users to purchase and send an actual gift to friends. 

Facebook uses that friend’s profile to suggest gifts based on their interests and ‘likes.’ 

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Excerpted from Adweek.com’ “Facebook Unwraps Gift Products”

Remember when giving someone a gift on Facebook was like sending them a really intricate emoticon?

Yeah, people stopped doing that, and so did Facebook.

Now the social network is hoping people will start sending each other actual gifts.

Here’s how FB plans to do it …

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Does playing basketball make you taller?

January 18, 2013

Of course not … that’s silly.

OK let’s try a variant of the question: Does education make you smarter?

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I bet a lot of you would bet the over on that one.

Here’s what the researchers say …

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Pssst: Wanna buy a dissertation?

January 18, 2013

Here’s an academic shocker: Researchers found that many Russian doctoral students purchase their dissertations

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Here are the facts.

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Posted in Academics - Research, Cheating & dishonesty, Doctoral degrees & students | 1 Comment »