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June 01, 2009

Recession Has Hit Bottom, Kids, Move Along...

Interesting result from some very quick tinkering with the Facebook Lexicon application that measures use of terms in wall postings. You can see here that I measured "hired" (in orange) vs. "laid off" (in blue)...

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We previously played with Lexicon back in December and had fun trending words like drunk, baby, hockey, and Wii. In that same note we mentioned that Facebook is working on an even more powerful Lexicon, but, in the meantime, I'm not sure why more people don't use version 1.0. Ben Bernanke, take note.

Oh, and follow me on Twitter.  More fascinating (and other) Lexicon uses to come...

Posted by The 463: Inside Tech Policy at 02:41 PM in Chatter |

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jessica

I'm not sure why more people don't use version 1.0. Ben Bernanke, take note.

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Posted by: jessica | August 06, 2009 at 11:29 PM

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