August 2008
56 posts
How to monetize Twitter right now | Computerworld... →
“Twitter is the star of 2008, a service for letting everyone know what you are doing, reading, thinking, saying. Yet, it has a long way to go in terms of really capturing mass attention.”
Blogger arrested over Guns N' Roses song leak | NZ... →
“A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy on his website has been arrested and appeared in court.”
Social Technologies Summit, Futuresonic 2009 →
“Futuresonic’s acclaimed international conference, the Social Technologies Summit brings 500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers, technologists and scientists from the digital…
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The glass bedroom is such a nice metaphor on so... →
The latest by Erika at The Key of Reason (http://erikap.tumblr.com/) regarding her concerns with computer mediated public performances (or CMPP for short) in online social spaces.
SecretTweet: 2650 I stopped ... | Twitter →
Another classic from Secret Tweets.
Opentape →
Muxtape is no more but now you can run setup your own version with OpenTape. This is an open-source project which punters can download and install.
Don’t Post The Evidence Unless It Supports Your... →
A drama involving Ning and Widget Laboratory has played out this week. It seems Ning handled the situation fairly.
The Role Of Social Media In Covering The Political... →
Another discussion about the impact of social media on political campaigns. I wonder how NZ politicians will use these tools?
China Detains 5 US Bloggers, Including Alive in... →
“News has emerged that the Chinese government has detained at least five bloggers from the United States for reporting on protests in favor of Tibetan independence.”.
Phweet From Your Twitter Web Page | PhweetTalk →
Phweet has added an excellent new service to Twitter for Firefox users. Simply clicking a new Phweet icon in the Twitter user interface will start a conversation. (c/o SC)
iJump.co.nz →
Auckland company attempting to clarify the social networking space for business. Run by Simon and Marie Young.
The Future of the Desktop | ReadWriteWeb →
“Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones”.
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WatchAn interview with Twitter boss - Jack Dorsey (c/o VatorNews)
The Twitting Point | Mashable →
“Twitter users are going manga kerrazy, replacing their avatars with those from FaceYourManga. “
FaceYourManga.com →
Create a anime version of yourself. Like the ones appearing all over Twitter.
Twitter Marketing and Tools - Top Ten Uses |... →
The results of our poll on how Online Marketing Blog readers use Twitter are in. Results based on approx. 220 responses
NSF and the Birth of the Internet | Special Report →
A media presented historical story of the Internet by the National Science Foundation. (c/o Wellman)
Twitter’s Follow Limit Makes Twitter Less Useful |... →
Blog on the recent limits set by Twitter.
Changes for Some SMS Users—Good and Bad News |... →
Bad news for international SMS users on Twitter. The international UK number will no longer send out messages from Twitter. New Zealanders are temporarily stuffed.
Hello Fail Whale: Zazzle.com Gallery →
“Tweets & Friends here you can find the fail whale…”. The Twitter Fail Whale is a living icon! You can wear it too.
Ask a Ninja Twitter cartoon
Microblogging to be Key Emerging Trend Among... →
“Findings from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2008 study suggest that microblogging will be a key emerging trend among businesses.”
Twitterer/streaming video broadcaster evicted from... →
A short but interesting piece by Harold Reingold about a journalist deported from China for documenting a free Tibet protest. He used Twitter and QIK to tweet and stream events as they unfolded….
Brightkite.com | Location awareness →
A pretty slick location aware-based social networking site. These seem to be taking off. Note that BrightKite is in beta and requires an invite.
ONGENS Virtual World Grid | Department of... →
The Department of Information Science at the University of Otago and partners have created a virtual world grid using the OpenSim platform. If you have an academic minded pursuit for this world,…
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds →
Design your own word clouds and go nuts with customisation. Works really well using an embedded JAVA app.
Twitter CEO Dorsey sees embeds, mobile in... →
A short but interesting article discussing the state of Twitter according to Jack.
iPhone unpacking by lego men | Flickr →
Series of shots showing lego men unpacking an iPhone. Cute.
WatchHitler’s rage at Twitter unreliability (c/o Crunchgear)
Search Volume: twitter - Worldwide, 2004 - present... →
A search on twitter at the new Google Insights reveals world wide regions of interest in Twitter. Inspired by a Techcrunch blog > http://tinyurl.com/otym4.
Twitter and Pownce Implement Following Limits |... →
“Account limiting is apparently the new big thing to do in the world of Status Microblogging. Both Twitter and Pownce have apparently introduced limits …”
Getting Started On Twitter | Findable Blogs →
Interesting discussion of twitter in terms of followers.
Please help us test Tumblr v4! We’re getting... |... →
Tumblr never sit still for long. They’ve been busy working on major changes to the interface which is now in beta.
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The importance of the unremarkable
Next Friday I’ll be making a rare physical appearance in the meat space to talk about one of my favourite things: Twitter. The occasion is the weekly seminar series run by Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Otago. My plan is to discuss Twitter (well obviously) and then attempt to explain why I think its interesting and important to the everyday. Look here to read the...
Avatars and Online Social Mobility and You, Oh My!... →
An interesting tumble by Erika at the Key of Reason tumblelog about avatars and identity.
Mozilla invites people to design web's future |... →
Mozilla is working through designs with Adaptive Path (Ajax fame) of a potential future Web browsing interface.
The accelerator of the modern age | BBC NEWS →
“A technology that helps the modern world keep running celebrates its 40th anniversary on 5 August.”
Hi-tech criminals target Twitter | BBC NEWS →
“A fake profile on the Twitter micro-blogging site has been found to hide a program capable of stealing data.” (c/o ep)
Top 5 reasons for using Twitter (made at... →
Try making your own top 5 of anything or comment on someone elses’ at a new site made by Andrew Dubber and Stef Lewandowski. It’s called 5alist and you can find it here: http://5alist.com/
Burgers and Bebo used to get youth voting | 3 News →
“Burgers and Bebo used to get youth voting Burgers and Bebo are some of the tools being used to get more young people signed up for this year’s general election.”
Six degrees of separation confirmed at nearer... →
A blog discussing a new Microsoft report that supports the 6 degrees of separation hypothesis. Well, 6.6 degrees in fact. (c/o ep)
Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling | NYTimes →
“A growing subculture has a fluid morality and a disdain for pretty much everyone else online.” Discussion of an old term actually, namely trolls.
July 2008
44 posts
Twitter Finding New and More Creative Ways to Fail... →
Further discussion of the latest Twitter technical glitch.
Identi.ca →
Another new Twitter clone. This one is pretty elegant but follows the Twitter setup pretty faithfully.
TweetStats for socialspace →
TweetStats have improved their visualisations. Specify any username and see what they’ve been doing and how often and where from.
TweetDeck →
A new Adobe AIR app for Twitter. TweetDeck is in beta and attempts to manage different Twitter threads.