June 2008
53 posts
Managing the information flood | Network World →
A major market driver that is emerging is the need to intelligently reduce the flood of comments and news that any consumer of news feeds. Filtrbox (http://www.filtrbox.com/) does this through filtering and analytics.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? →
An article looking at what the Internet could be doing to our brains (c/o ReadWrite Web).
Smart People, Stupid Tweets. Fake News Spreads... →
Coverage of a hoax about the death of Jarod (of Subway fame) spreading like wildfire through Twitter.
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Social Space Station at Posterous →
Posterous.com is a new lightweight blogging service. So lightweight in fact, no account is required!
Simply email your post to the email address: post@posterous.com where the subject line is the title and the email body is the content. The idea is that blogging is easier to do from your main desktop app - your email client (although this could happen inside a Web browser). Even nicer is the...
State of the Twitter, June 2008 | Scripting News →
A discussion about the recent poor performance of Twitter and his ideas for addressing these scalability problems (c/o Techcrunch).
Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks... →
“Is MySpace worth $3 billion, or $20 billion? It depends on how you value a user.” A techcrunch analysis of the big players in the online social networking universe.
Posterous Beats Tumblr In Simplicity | Techcrunch →
“New Y Combinator startup Posterous launches today with what might be the simplest blogging platform to date. Yes, it’s even easier to use than tumblr.”
Vertigo Theme →
An excellent new Tumblr theme by Matthew Buchannan. This one based on the poster art of Saul Bass.
The Paper Version of the Web | Deeplinking →
A great post providing snap shots of the original user interface sketches for sites like Twitter and Flickr. Lo-fi prototyping is the go!
MySpace Opens Up The Data Pipe With Full Launch Of... →
Another step forward for data sharing on the social networking front. MySpace opens up to stream user data to 3rd party services.
Situated Technologies Pamphlets 2: Urban... →
The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. This one is by Matthew Fuller.
The Social Space Station is one! Who knew?
The Social Space Station is now over a year old. I missed the anniversary, mostly because I can’t believe so much time has passed! The first tumble was posted on June 3rd 2007. It is not a particularly fine example of elegant online prose but it did state reasonably accurately the point of this tumblelog. And, occasionally I think it was achieved. What do you think? I also wanted to take the...
Build your own Digg site with Reddit →
Build your own Digg news social site using the code behind the number 2 version of Digg - Reddit. (c/o Techcrunch)
Information, Communication & Society →
New issue of the Information, Communication and Society Journal. This one is titled “Sociology of ICTs” and edited by Barry Wellman.
This is Sparta! — Facebook prank or political... →
An article on a Facebook group that requires students to write “This is Sparta!” somewhere on their exams.
Twidox Is Like Scribd For Academics | Techcrunch →
“Back in January Google launched a huge repository of science data at research.google.com…”
The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of... →
The Mundaneum Museum honors the first concept of a world wide wonder, sketched out by Paul Otlet in 1934 as a global network of “electric telescopes.”
Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check | GigaOM →
Another view of the apparent plateauing trend in the social networking sphere.
The Social Map Is All About Me | GigaOM →
A nice article at GigaOm by Mark Sigal about us, the social map, aggregated content and accessing all this through Google.
Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social... →
“It was sort of inevitable given Facebook’s monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught MySpace”.
Woman pleads not guilty in Internet suicide case |... →
Latest news regarding the MySpace related suicide.
Twittering animatronic Teddy →
An animatronic bear transformed into a live social networking Twitterer (c/o Chris Pirillo). True!
WatchHow to Make a Twittering Teddy Bear
Facebook | Firefox World Record →
A Facebook group dedicated to breaking the software download record. In this case, the software is v3.0 of Firefox. Party anyone?
Social Networking: Taking Off or Taking a Dive? |... →
Are we reaching opportunity cost with social networking sites lilke MySpace and Facebook? ReadWrite discusses.
Gluten Free Kiwi, Gluten Free New Zealand, Celiac,... →
Gluten Free Kiwi is an online community helping Coeliacs and Gluten Intolerant People in New Zealand Cope With Day To Day Life, Check out Recipes, Blog, Reviews, Locations, Products, Discounts,…
Consumer Internet Barometer →
The Consumer Internet Barometer is a unique quarterly study that reveals what US consumers think, feel, and do relating to the Internet. It captures behavioral and attitudinal measures correlated…
Thursday status update | Twitter Status →
Just released status update of Twitter systems. It seems that API requests have been reduced from 70 to 30. This explains Twirl pausing during ICCMSN.
QIK →
A new beta service for streaming video right from your phone to the Web.
Hands-On: Spore Creature Creator | Wired.com →
A look at how to build creatures in the new video game - Spore from the creators of SIMs.
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WatchJohn Eyle’s keynote at the ICCMSN 2008 this morning
Live Twitting - LiveTwitting.com →
LiveTwitting is the new and best way to take notes to share sessions at conferences with others.
Hashtags →
Real-time tracking of hashtags (“twemes”) on Twitter. This service is opt-in.
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Twittering happenings at the ICCMSN
Tomorrow is opening day of the International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking (ICCMSN - 2008) right here in Dunedin, New Zealand. The conference takes a look at many different aspects of technology enabled social networking such as the social, technological, identity-based, educational, virtual - the list goes on!
I’ll be there, sitting in the audience or helping out around...
'Twittering' from Mars | Computerworld →
“NASA micro-blogged as lander touched down on the red planet.”
FFFFOUND! →
This “… is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user’s tastes and interests for an…
Reblog > lowercase vs. Uppercase.
marco:
hilker:
i don’t capitalize because there’s no reason to. grammar, schmrammar. i was an english major for two years which means i have creative license. […] also, the source css for my tumblr includes a “text-transform: lowercase” element because i like the way that it looks, having everything in lowercase. it’s an aesthetic choice that doesn’t compromise the functionality of language.
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Registration open for Internet 9.0 →
This year’s AoIR conference ‘Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place’ to be held in Copenhagen is now open for registration.
I.T. 2.0 | ReadWriteWeb →
“How Changing Technology is Having Big Impacts on Business In case you haven’t heard yet - the I.T. world is changing.”
ICCMSN 2008 Conference event | Facebook →
Here is the event profile on Facebook for the impending ICCMSN 2008 conference. It begins this Wednesday in Dunedin, New Zealand at the University of Otago
The Twitter-clone/twitter-like sites collection »... →
A lengthy collection of microblogging services world wide. Who knew? (c/o http://microblogs.ning.com/)
Internet Week New York - June 3-10, 2008 →
“Internet Week is a week-long festival of events celebrating New York’s thriving Internet industry and community.”
Quirky Plurk: another microblogging time sink |... →
A new addition to the microblogging world. Plurk has a slick interface and a timeline document when things happen. Unlike Twitter this one is horizontal.
College Alumni Magazines Struggle to Compete With... →
“The advent of social networking Web sites has created a quandary for alumni magazines, which have been slow to embrace the Web.” (c/o mixx)
JS-Kit: Navigator, comments, reviews, ratings,... →
Fast, powerful and incredibly simple, JS-Kit’s services let web publishers build dynamic, compelling online experiences in just minutes. (c/o DK)
Bringing your online community to life | Social... →
Various tips from the Social Signal guys about making your online community work.
Twemes.com →
A service that tracks tags attached to tweets to provide views of particular topics (conferences seem to be popular). These tags are called ‘twemes’ and are identified by a # prefix.
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Bruce Rapson McLennan - Dead at 42.
Bruce was one of the good guys. He liked maps and music and coffee and cigarettes and whiskey and technology and Central Otago and photography and the Internet. Bruce liked many other things but I missed the chance to find out.
He died over the weekend.
I am shocked.
I miss him but I’ve missed him for a while. He used to work down the corridor where we would shoot the breeze about the...