We are about 3 days away from the launch of a tool that will let you log in with your Facebook account and select from available available Facebook feeds (ex., groups, fan pages, etc) for research purposes. This will be very good stuff, but not limited to the Facebook streams. Twitter feeds, blog posts and comments, and RSS feeds of all types. Mark your calendars: November 1, 2010 will be the launch of DiscoverText. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Lois Scheidt <lscheidt@indiana.edu> wrote:
One of the things that implies is that Facebook has changed their stance on giving outside researchers access to their site. Would be really nice if that were true.
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com> wrote:
In case you're interested in those issues and haven't seen it yet:
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One of the comments to the story suggests, shall we say, that there would be different IRB responses to the study - itself an interesting dimension to all of this.
In any event, enjoy - -charles
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