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Presentation
Nov 8, 2010Susannah Fox
Mobile health technology is being used to reach adolescent populations from different cultural backgrounds. Susannah Fox will add Pew Internet's data about health, mobile, and teens to the discussion.
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More in: Health, Teens, Mobile
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Report
Nov 4, 2010Kathryn Zickuhr, Aaron Smith
4% of online adults use a location-based service such as Foursquare or Gowalla that allows them to share their location with friends and to find others who are nearby.
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More in: Mobile, Social Networking, Web 2.0
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Media Mention
Doug Gross, CNN
Nov 4, 2010
(CNN) -- Location-based mobile apps such as Foursquare might be among the fastest-growing trends for plugged-in technophiles, but the vast majority of Americans still haven't used them.
That's the finding of a report released Thursday by the Pew R...
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Media Mention
Marketplace | American Public Media
Nov 4, 2010
By all accounts, The Next Big Thing In Tech is supposed to be geolocation. Lots of businesses now offer special deals when you check in and yesterday Facebook announced a whole slew of deals for users on their Facebook Places location services. But a...
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Media Mention
Cecilia Kang, Washington Post
Nov 4, 2010
Just 4 percent of U.S. Internet users partake in location-based services such as Foursquare and Godwalla, according to a survey released Thursday by the Pew Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
But use of location-based services is expected ...
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Media Mention
Samantha Murphy, TechNewsDaily
Nov 4, 2010
Location-based service sites -- such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places -- may seem like the hottest new platform online service on the block, but adoption is still relatively small, a new survey finds.
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"Location-based services su...
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Media Mention
Joshua Brustein, New York Times
Nov 4, 2010
Technology companies, venture capitalists and retailers have expressed no small amount of enthusiasm for location-based Web services, which allow users to “check into” locations in order to connect with friends or cash in on special offers from busin...
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Presentation
Nov 2, 2010Lee Rainie
In this speech, Director Lee Rainie will explore how digital technologies have changed people's relationship to each other and to information. Further, he will discuss the coming decade of change in technology and its possible uses by consumers and s...
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More in: Future of the Internet, Broadband, Mobile
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Presentation
Oct 25, 2010Lee Rainie
This keynote will explore the Pew Internet Project’s latest findings on health searches and sharing on the internet and smart phones, as well as how digital technologies allow patient-centered communities to emerge and give care to those who are sick...
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More in: Communities, Health, Mobile
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Presentation
Oct 23, 2010Amanda Lenhart
Teens and adults use their cell phones to transmit and receive suggestive images - a practice often called "sexting." This talk outlines the demographics of who is sending and receiving these images and under what circumstances. Further, focus group ...
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More in: Teens, Women and Men, Mobile