Social discovery on the other hand depends on an additional factor: our relationship network.
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"There's room for interesting social discovery, and there's room for search discovery, " he says.
Like the app environment, social discovery tends to bring users face-to-face with higher-quality content.
Shawn Bercuson is founder of Prescreen, a curated social discovery video on demand network.
Hastings says they will add more social discovery for video into the site over the next five years.
Airtime is a 'social discovery' application for helping people make new friends online, not necessarily for the purpose of dating.
Other similar mobile "social discovery" apps include Highlight, Banjo and Sonar.
Like other so-called "social discovery" apps, Highlight works by allowing a small online cloud of personal information to follow a user wherever their cellphone goes.
"Social discovery" apps like Highlight and Glancee, which Facebook recently purchased, already perform similar functions and have not been hit with the same backlash Facebook received.
Lafferty, who wrote about this week's Bloomberg report, said Facebook could launch a social discovery app separate from its main mobile app -- at least at first.
StumbleUpon, the social discovery service, has about 15 million users.
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Chill, a new social discovery service that aims to help users mediate the glut of online video content, is catching the attention of top-tier investors and online video gurus.
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Accordingly, a slate of torrent portals like Vodo offers consumers media choices that include outright ownership, no-DRM formats that are transferable to mobile devices, zero pricing, added-value bundles and in some cases rudimentary social discovery environments.
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The most progressive of the bunch, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Mashable, and BuzzFeed, all understand their product now requires equal parts content, distribution and social discovery, not to mention reader engagement in the media itself.
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Social music discovery is a fine idea.
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Rather than opening up the web, the current popularity of social networks, discovery sites, and algorithmic based recommendations puts a huge amount of power into a very small number of sites.
These elements we have used in our lives for entertainment, social engagement and discovery will have a tremendous impact on how researchers and clinicians can share and discuss microscopy images to diagnose diseases.
Its products are not intrinsically primed for either discovery or social.
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Consumers today are using different apps and web services for discovery, social engagement and interactivity. zeebox brings all these features together in a single app that drives increased viewership of programming by making the live TV experience even more compelling.
VEVO.com released its new website this morning and from its social media posture to its discovery engine to its user experience, it is an important step forward for entertainment delivery.
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We are trying to better understand sharing behavior but content discovery goes beyond our social graphs.
Social amplification and tag-based discovery are core to the Tumblr platform, giving content staying power, with many posts receiving reblogs and likes days, weeks and even months after the original post.
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The web tool promises to download and store all of your social media content and provide meaningful analytics and discovery tools.
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Privacy concerns over the issue were touched off last week when a Web developer blogged about his discovery that Path, an emerging social app that limits users to 50 friends, was uploading his iPhone address book to its servers.
Issues related to electronic discovery, cloud computing, social media, and data privacy immediately come to mind.
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Slingbox Companion further leverages the Slingbox to deliver a powerful 2nd screen application for the iPad that combines content discovery and navigation with rich media and social media features.
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On these shores, Bundyism is a handy discovery for politicians who want to promise fat Social Security benefits with no tax increases.
For example, the reforms triggered the discovery of more than 100, 000 stolen Social Security numbers - the key to identity theft.
In addition, the solution can increase the discovery and sharing of video content and optimize engagement through social and mobile by eliminating the barriers to view content directly on Twitter.
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