June 2007
9 posts
IRGO (Internet Research Group Otago) @ Wetpaint →
Here’s a a group of researchers at the University of Otago who have interests in the Internet, the Web (2.0+), social networking, transactions, technologies, AJax, people … pretty much anything really. I’m there as are other colleagues from the Information Science Department plus Academics from different and seemingly unrelated fields as well as a few industry people. Check it...
Facebook, privacy and conspiracy →
Mailbag: What does "Ajaxed" actually mean?
I used “Ajaxed” in the sentence “The interface is nicely Ajaxed and …” in the post about Jyte.com, and immediately received a question about it: What does Ajaxed actually mean? Well, I attempt to give a fairly brief and simple explanation of this term below. Note that there are many sources online where Ajax is discussed in detail, particularly the technologies it...
Review: Jyte.com
Jyte.com is a social networking site based around the idea of claims. It uses mob-rule to give credence to these claims by allowing members to vote either way and argue their cases. This adds a nice adversarial element to encourage activity but I’m not sure how you make money on it. It could well be one those sites speculating on the number of eyeballs attracting to it. The interface is...
Disambiguity posting on ambient intimacy →
Here is a link to Leisa Reichelt’s fascinating blog on “ambient intimacy” which she defines as: “Ambient Intimacy is a term to describe that sense of connectedness that you get from participating in social tools online that allow you to feel as though you are maintaining and, perhaps in fact, increasing your closeness with people in your social network through the messages...
“I am writing to inform you that the site performance of MOG.com, which may have...”
– Taken from an email (Dated: 05/06/2007) to MOG members by the CEO and Founder - David Hyman. This seems to back up the buzz surrounding Facebook at the moment.
