March 2008
49 posts
Twitter and Ambient Intimacy - The Impact of... →
A seven minute clip on the presence of ambient intimacy in Twitter. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, ambient intimacy, video,
The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme -... →
A Michael Arrington spiel on a new record label plan to charge some kind of flat tax in order they survive or something. The related comments make for an interesting read. (c/o Dubber) Saved…
Truncated link posts
Regular followers of the links tumbled here at the Social Space Station might have noticed that parts of them were missing recently. Usually the tags or the Ma.gnolia related links (just above the tags) are mercilessly truncated. I’m not sure why this has started happening but rest assured the Tumblr crew are on the case. In case you’re interested, I don’t manually add links to...
Sex Drive: IPhones, Twitter Let Sex Workers Spread... →
Gadgets and web apps give escorts and their evangelists new tools for spinning the news. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, wired, …
Twitter Dominates the Lifestream - ReadWriteWeb →
“By using FriendFeedStats, which creates service-level usage statistics from lifestream aggregator FriendFeed based on its public timeline, we can see which services are the most popular….
The real roadblocks to data portability on social... →
Robert Scoble commenting on Yahoo signing up for Google’s OpenSocial. Interestingly he discusses constraints on data portability. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give…
Parents to be shown how to protect children online... →
New rules to protect children on the internet have been set out in a government report along with new codes of practice for social network sites and video games. By Patrick Wintour Saved By:…
MySpace and Friends Need to Make Money. And Fast.... →
Advertising on online social networks is still very much a work in progress, with some sites faring better than others at monetizing an explosive trend. Saved By: Online social space |
Google's Kevin Marks on OpenSocial -... →
Google’s Kevin Marks tells Jemima Kiss about OpenSocial. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: opensocial, google, jemima kiss, guardian
Free the whitespace - New Music Strategies →
An interesting blog on what is happening in the communication world as the UHF spectrum is freed from TV and radio. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags:…
The secret to Twitter - Scobleizer →
Robert Scoble’s short blog on what he thinks makes Twitter important. The associated comments might be of more interest. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks …
True Story of a Twitter Marriage Proposal - The... →
Stephanie Sullivan, who might be the first woman to accept a Twitter marriage proposal, at first thought the microblogging service was ridiculous. Saved By: Online social space | View…
Twitsig.com - Convert your tweets to images →
This beta site converts your tweets into images. Why? To use in signatures, on forums etc. (c/o Twittes) Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: …
To Twitter or Not To Twitter: That is NOT the... →
Interesting discussion around the value of Twitter for teaching. (c/o Twittes) Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, learning, blog,…
The Professor as Open Book - New York Times →
Professors of all ranks and disciplines are revealing personal information on public, national platforms: blogs, Web pages, social networking sites, even campus television. (c/o AoIR) Saved…
KidZui: The Kid Safe Browser - Techcrunch →
“KidZui is an ambitious project, launching tonight, intended not only to make the internet safe for kids (aged 3-12)” Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks …
Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms... →
“Facebook announced new privacy controls at a press event at their downtown Palo Alto headquarters today, and also demoed their new chat application …” Saved By: Online social space |
Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An... →
“Paying $1 per song on iTunes is starting to get old. And Apple knows it.” Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, iphone, techcrunch,
5 Ways To Have Fun with Twitter When You're Bored... →
Five things to do on Twitter when you’re bored. Found this thanks to Twitter actually and @RWW. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, …
Recognize Internet addiction as a mental illness,... →
marsz: Compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness. An editorial in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry says Internet addiction — including “excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging” — is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder that should be added to psychiatry’s official guidebook of mental...
Is MySpace Good for Society? - Freakonomics →
Key people interested in social networking research are asked questions about the impact of social networking on society. (c/o Nellison) Saved By: Online social space | View Details |
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Vol 24,... →
The last edition of JCAL has just been released containing a number of articles about network ties. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: ties, …
Visualizing Twitter - Twitter Blog →
A list of 3rd party Twitter apps that visualise connections and tweets. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, blog, visualisation,
Twitter Technology Blog →
Here’s a blog by the Twitter developers discussing all the under the hood type geeky stuff keeping Twitter afloat. (c/o Scoble) Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give…
The Googlization of Everything →
A site supporting a book discussing Google and its importance on the world. Mostly I like the design. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: design,
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The Future Of Linden Lab Following Executive... →
The announcement this week, as reported by Reuters, of the departure of Philip Rosedale as CEO of Linden Lab. What does this mean for SecondLife? Saved By: Online social space | View…
Bebo sold for $1 billion - Stuff.co.nz →
After months of speculation, it appears that Bebo is to be sold to Time Warner AOL. How much of good thing can this be, really? Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give…
Twitter + Yahoo Pipes = Signal - ConverStations →
A nice piece on how to filter tweets using Yahoo pipes. In the example provided here, tweets containing URLs are discussed. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks…
Comments fixed so say something, you know
I have fixed up the Disqus comment integration so that they work now. Feel free to comment on a tumble by clicking the permanent link or the title. The comments form will appear for the individual tumble.
How Twitter makes it real - BBC NEWS (Technology) →
Bill Thompson on how Twitter is beginning to be taken seriously. (c/o e) Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, news, bbc, social…
tumblweed →
Another great app written for Adobe Air. This let’s users tumble to their tumblelogs from their desktops. I’m getting it now! Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give…
The Bebo kids are back in town
Last year I posted views on using Bebo to encourage more frequent conversations with my students. It worked really well but I mistakenly used it towards the end of the course. This year, I used the Bebo group format again but this time from the start of the course (Bebo was selected because Facebook and MySpace got no action!). The response has been pleasing as the membership currently sits at...
Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK) - New York... →
Children increasingly rely on personal technological devices to create social circles apart from their families, changing the way they communicate with their parents. Saved By: Online…
Google Analytics Data Sharing: Why Not Go All The... →
“Google Blogoscoped (and the Google Analytics Blog) is reporting that Google is now giving users the opt-in option to share their Analytics data”. Saved By: Online social space | View…
Is User-Generated Content Out? - Newsweek.com →
The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals. (c/o Mahalo) Saved By: Online social space…
Web App Charts →
The polls have closed and the top 10 Web 2.0 applications have been chosen. (c/o AoIR) Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: apps, web 2.0, …
New special issue of FirstMonday →
From arguments against convergence to loser-generated content and exploitative interactivity, a special issue of the peer-reviewed online journal First Monday reveals the true colors of Web…
aNobii →
A very nice book-based social networking site where users can find others with similar tastes in books. Very ajaxy and slick. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give…
What Exactly Did The JuicyCampus Founder Think... →
“I’m not sure what JuicyCampus founder Matt Ivester expected when he launched a gossip site for college students, but apparently things are getting out of hand.” Saved By: Online social…
After Suicide, Blog Insults Are Debated - New York... →
Visitors to AgencySpy and AdScam, two sharp-tongued advertising industry blogs, posted comments blaming the sites for contributing to ad executive Paul Tilley’s suicide. (c/o Techcrunch) …
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Twoosh! Closing in on the Falcon
I’ve made it to the top of the Twoosh Board at Tweet140! Well, the top of the new twooshers list at least (click the third tab on the results table). Tweet140 is a Website that uses the Twitter API to analyse Twitterer’s tweets to see how close, and how often they post tweets of exactly 140 characters in length (the maximum allowed on Twitter). If a tweet reaches the magic 140...