Lean in for this: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is more influential on social media sites than the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to a report that ranks the top 10 executives of popular social media companies.

The list, created by influence analytics company Appinion, is based on a social influence scoring system that measures how positively the public views each executive’s opinions and decisions.

Here were the top 10 social media executives at Facebook, Yelp, LinkedIn, and Twitter:

1. Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
2. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook
3. David Ebersman, CFO, Facebook
4. Reid Hoffman, Chairman, LinkedIn
5. Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
6. Evan Williams, founder, Twitter
7. Michael Sippey, VP product, Twitter
8. Adam Messinger, CTO, Twitter
9. Mike Schroepfer, CTO, Facebook
10. Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp

Appionions only found one woman who was influential enough to break into the top 10, but she made it all the way to the top. Male executives from Facebook and Twitter

A meta-analysis of user numbers from various sources shows that Facebook is not losing users in the United States, but other markers suggest waning interest in the social network.

Facebook is not seeing declining user numbers in developed markets including the United States, the analysis, conducted by eMarketer, found.

eMarketer expects that Facebook will surpass 1 billion active users this year.

But the use patterns identified by eMarketer did present some troubling news for the Menlo Park-based company. Younger users may not be fleeing the social network, but they are spending less time on it. Older adults make up the network’s fastest growing audience in developed countries. Together, these patters suggest that Facebook faces an uphill battle in retaining its audience numbers over time.

The social network’s strongest growth globally comes from India, Brazil, Russia, Japan and Indonesia, eMarketer found.

Some trackers of

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer sparked debate among remote workers worldwide when she introduced a new telecommuting policy in February that sent many of her own employees back to the office.  After a period of silence, Mayer defended her decision, adding that it “was wrongly perceived as an industry narrative.” Wrong or not, she had the public’s attention. This analysis of public sentiment by social media management company SDL shows that while people’s perceptions of Mayer improved when she extended maternity leave for new mothers and added some perks for fathers and adoptive parents, their interest in the story waned overall.

In the presentation below, SDL outlines the volume trend, share of voice, sentiment analysis, and conversational themes related to each set of policies. The extended maternity leave announcement and the parent perks, announced in close succession, are counted as one event.

Mayer’s telecommuting policy got the most attention by far with

Yahoo has acquired the flight search engine MileWise and the Web and mobile polling app GoPollGo.

Both services have already been shuttered. MileWise, which provided personalized flight recommendations based on user preferences and miles rewards memberships, said it will notify users by email on how to export their data.

MileWise’s 10-member staff will join Yahoo’s new New York engineering offices to work on mobile products. The GoPollGo team will also work on mobile products but will join the company’s Sunnyvale headquarters.

Both teams pointed to the growing talent pool at Yahoo as a reason for their decisions to be acquired.

“We’re thrilled to be joining such a talented group of inventors, and can’t wait to get working on the next big thing coming out of Yahoo,” the MileWise team said in a statement.

Of the merger, GoPollGo said, “We share an enthusiasm for building

Google has launched a widget that will allow users to save files they find on the web directly to their Drive cloud storage accounts.

“We surf the web for a million different reasons – for everything from school research projects to time-killing memes. And when we find something relevant for us, whether that be our most recent pay stub or just an adorably awesome pic, we may want to save it for later reference or to share with friends in the future,” the company said in a blog post.

The widget spares users from first downloading files to their computer and then uploading them to Google’s cloud storage system.

The feature relies on individual websites to insert the a save button using code provided by Google. As such, it’s unlikely to be widely available for some time.

We’ve inserted a sample below:

It’s only been 100 days since Vine first appeared on Twitter and users are already sending out 5 Vine videos every second. Video technology company Unruly analyzed 10 million Vines over a one-month period to better understand the sharing patterns surrounding Twitter’s new mobile video app. The study showed that good things come in short, repetitive packages.

During the sample period, the largest number of Vine tweets (19,667) appeared on Monday, April 15 between 3 and 4pm EDT, just after the Boston Marathon explosions.  Typically, weekends were the most popular time to tweet a Vine video, with most of the activity occurring between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. EDT. The analysts found that there was more activity on weekends than on all of the other weekdays combined.

One Direction’s Harry Styles had the most-shared Vine, which was tweeted more than 47,000 times. Most of the top 100

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LinkedIn Releases New ‘Channels’ for Reading Articles and Slide Shows (SocialTimes)
LinkedIn’s front page, LinkedIn Today, has undergone an organizational makeover to make news links and slide shows easier to find. Announced Wednesday, LinkedIn’s “Channels” allow members to browse, sort and follow content by category. paidContent There are some fairly obvious examples such as Economy, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, as well as broader categories such as Healthcare, Technology and Social Media — and a few somewhat more unusual channels too, like “Things I Carry” and “My Best Career Mistake.” Once you pick your categories, the site shows you a redesigned LinkedIn Today page that looks very much like the front page of a magazine website: there is one larger story with a big image at

Rents in San Francisco getting you down? Try living in a 1990 Chevy Conversion van for $520 a month. It has no Internet or bathroom, but it has a queen-size bed and it runs!

A studio apartment in the Mission goes for upwards of $1,600 these days — thanks, in no small part, to well paid engineers at successful startups like Airbnb.

The van is parked at the seediest edge of the Mission District, according to the Airbnb listing. It’s not uncommon to see people with financial troubles living in parked RVs not far away.

The van’s owner identifies herself as a freelance writer and hypnotherapist.

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LinkedIn’s front page, LinkedIn Today, has undergone an organizational makeover to make news links and slide shows easier to find. Announced today, LinkedIn’s ‘Channels’ allow members to browse, sort, and follow content by category.

“As part of our efforts to simplify the product experience, we have chosen a small set of content channels that intersect high-quality content and professional insights that matter most to LinkedIn members,” a LinkedIn spokesperson said.

Some of the channels, like “Things I Carry” and “My Best Career Mistake” are based on LinkedIn’s monthly content packages that incorporate themed essays from LinkedIn’s chosen “thought leaders.”

Others reflect news on popular industries, such as technology and healthcare, or general career advice and tips for both professionals and students.

Currently, there are around 20 channels. The company expects to add more in the future.

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Syrian Internet connections yesterday, courtesy CloudFlare

Syria experienced a near total Internet blackout for 19 hours yesterday, and today the government said the outage stemmed from a cut cable, an explanation that security company CloudFlare called “highly unlikely.”

“Syria’s network connects to the rest of the Internet at four distinct points that are geographically separated. For traffic to be terminated entirely, all four connection points would need to be severed simultaneously,” the company explained in a blog post on the incident.

Further, CloudFlare argues a few IP addresses remained functional during the outage, which couldn’t be the case if a cable had been cut.

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