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Can ResearchGate really be the Facebook of science? By @BobbieJohnson

GigaOM :: With 2m members, science startup ResearchGate isn’t just talking big when it says it wants to start a revolution: it’s actually changing the way scientists work. Co-founder Ijad Madisch explains his vision — and how he’d like to change Germany’s clone-heavy culture along the way.

A report by Bobbie Johnson, gigaom.com

Ijad Madisch on Twitter

Bobbie Johnson on Twitter

How to filter the social web on your mobile: Prismatic

ReadWriteWeb :: In this fifth and final installment of our How To Filter The Social Web series, I'm looking at a mobile service called Prismatic. It's a slick looking website and iPhone app that filters social news for you. Filtering news on mobile has traditionally been a tough nut to crack - and there's no shortage of startups that have attempted it.

This time: Prismatic: A review by Richard MacManus, www.readwriteweb.com

Social web filter: "Here's How I Tracked News About Andy Murray Today"

Social web filter: "How To Filter The Social Web From Your Inbox"

Social web filter: "How To Filter The Social Web, Part 2: Reddit"

Social web filter: "How To Filter The Social Web, Part 1: Webicina"

Twitter attack sparks call for changes to laws against cyber bullying

Herald Sun :: The push comes after TV personality Charlotte Dawson was admitted to hospital this week after receiving a barrage of abuse from Twitter trolls, telling her to “go hang yourself”. Senator Conroy is urging Twitter to be accountable and take its international complaints seriously.

A report by Claire Connelly | Alicia Wood | Rosie Squires | Jonno Nash, www.heraldsun.com.au

Indian TV show uses social media analytics to rally viewers around social change

Data Informed :: An ambitious television show in India called Satyamev Jayate is using social media to jumpstart conversations about emotional topics and to promote social change. It receives more than one million messages each week and has had 1.25 billion impressions online since the show started on May 6.

A report by Ian B. Murphy , data-informed.com

Diaspora* will now be a community project

Diaspora* Foundation :: Diaspora has grown into something more than just a project four guys started in their office at school. It is bigger than any one of us, the money we raised, or the code we have written. It has developed into something that people all over the world care about and are inspired by. We think the time is right to reflect this reality, and put our code where our hearts lie.

[Daniel | Maxwell:] Today, we are giving control of Diaspora to the community.

Announcement by Daniel | Maxwell, blog.diasporafoundation.org

HT: and discussed here: "Diaspora Founders Distance Themselves From Project, Turn It Over to Users"  Liz Gannes, AllThingsD

Comments on Twitter:

Former social darling Diaspora* intends to transform into a 'community-run' project tnw.to/n3RT by @alex

— The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) August 27, 2012

Founders of Diaspora, Intended as the Anti-Facebook, Move On nyti.ms/SJO1o9

— NYT Bits Blog (@nytimesbits) August 27, 2012

Diaspora Is Now Community Property: 'It Was Never Supposed to Be a Startup' betabeat.com/?p=60070 via @betabeat

— Diaspora (@joindiaspora) August 27, 2012

Well connected? Silp matches jobs with a user’s pre-defined skills and social graph

Do you have the right people in your network? What happens if your network exists mainly offline? - I write that with a smile in my face.

The Next Web :: By pairing available jobs with a user’s social graph, Silp provides employers with the tools to identify potential candidates in their and their company’s network. When an employer posts a job vacancy, they, their co-workers and friends can see who in their extended network (friends and friends-of-friends) might be a good fit for the position.

A report by Robin Wauters, thenextweb.com

End of utopia? Social media, Twitter are echo chambers, only confirming our views

Guardian :: The internet, it was once claimed by theorists such as Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, was supposed to be democratising and empowering, giving a voice to those marginalised by the elite of opinion formers dominating the media and politics. These days, even Shirky has moved to distance himself from that earlier utopian idealism.

[Peter Beaumont:] How do we escape the hysteria that threatens to erode public debate? The blogosphere, increasingly fuelled by toxic language, is hindering honest engagement rather than encouraging it.

An essay by Peter Beaumont, www.guardian.co.uk

DataSift launches new simple methods of social data filtering

The Next Web :: For those drowning in data, this week provides good news from DataSift, the social data platform company. The firm is launching Push and Query Builder to make it simple for almost anyone to mine and filter through data across the social Web.

A report by Jamillah Knowles, thenextweb.com

Empire State Building shooting leads to social media payday for one Instagrammer

WBEZ 91.5 :: As the world tries to figure out the motives of the Empire State Building shooter, one random Instagram photo provides a window into the dirty underbelly of photo licensing for wire services.

A report by Andrew Gill, www.wbez.org

HT: Jim Romenesko, here:

Instagram photo at Empire State Building shooting provides window into dirty underbelly of photo licensing. bit.ly/OAonhA

— Romenesko (@romenesko) August 24, 2012

Social TV scorecard: The 10 most social industry sectors?

AdAge :: To look at the usual social-media landscape for brands without the Olympic effect, our editorial partner Bluefin Labs, the Cambridge-Mass.-based social-TV analytics company, has been parsing first-half-of-2012 data to come up with a series of what it's calling Social TV Brand-scape views.

The top 10 social industry sectors - A report by Simon Dumenco, adage.com