Cambridge is becoming a hub for social media research from MIT to Microsoft - Business - The Boston Globe

A Cambridge social snapshot

"Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology each have dozens of scholars conducting research on social media. IBM’s local lab has a team of academics focused on social networking for business, and Google Inc. has its own specialists working out of its Kendall Square office. Most recently, Microsoft Research New England created a social media research lab by hiring some of the discipline’s best-known scholars."

Cambridge is becoming a hub for social media research from MIT to Microsoft - Business - The Boston Globe