August 2009
32 posts
Why Twitter is underhyped and is probably worth... →
A great discussion of why Twitter is great for business and simultaneously undervalued. Tags: twitter business value news Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 30th
Why Don’t Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of... →
The focus on teens supposedly not adopting Twitter continues with this interesting guest post at Techcrunch. Tags: twitter teens adoption boyd news Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 30th
Woofer: The 1400 Character Anti-Twitter | Mashable →
Here’s a Twitter parody which allows for 1400 character woofs (i.e., tweets). Strictly for the verbose. Tags: twitter woofer 1400 verbosity news Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 25th
Disqus V3 Launches: Publishers and Commenters Get... →
Disqus has rolled out a number of new features in version 3 of their commenting system (which I use). More here. Tags: disqus comments social management version Posted by: …
Aug 25th
Geolocation coming to Twitter and its external... →
More on Twitter providing for geocoding (location) data for users and developers. Tags: geolocation twitter developers api service Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 23rd
Of Microblogging, Twitter and Hype Cycles |... →
Geoffrey Man discusses the placement of Twitter in the “trough of disillusionment” and why it’s a good thing (c/o jk) Tags: microblogging twitter gartner cycle trough Posted by: …
Aug 19th
Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by... →
Find out how the internet sees you by creating a “data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity” using the Personas project from the socialable media group at MIT (c/o VF). Tags: mit …
Aug 18th
Latest Twitter app platform problems solved |... →
A recent service outage at Twitter appears to be fixed. However, Twitter are revealing little and ask that 3rd party developers check their apps work. Tags: twitter outage technical api…
Aug 18th
http://www.tweetsh.com/ →
Here’s a web interface for Twitter aimed at hardcore geeks who like Bash, unix, etc. type environments. Tags: twitter shell terminal geek news Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 16th
Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address... →
Email “Finger” might be making a come back to identify users profiles based on their email address. Tags: google finger identity email news Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 16th
Proposed Changes to Facebook's "Statement of... →
Read Facebook’s proposed changes to the “Statement of Rights and Reponsibilities (SRR)”. Comments in blue and hosted at Box.net. Tags: facebook rights responsibilities draft changes
Aug 16th
Twitter Study Reveals Interesting Results About... →
Pear analytics undertook research to see what people tweeted about and to attempt to classify Twitter based discussions. (c/o Mashable) Tags: twitter research content analysis news
Aug 12th
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TWITTER THE OPERA: Now We’ve Seen Everything |... →
Twitter - the opera. WTF? Tags: twitter opera show news mashable Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 12th
Are Students Really Studying More than Social... →
StudyU conducted a survey on StudyBlue recently to look at how much time students spend social networking in favour of study. The results are surprising. Tags: networking studying mashable…
Aug 11th
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On →
John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly discuss the next evolution of Web 2.0 - Web Squared. Tags: web2.0 oreilly squared intelligence article Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 11th
Facebook Flips The Switch On Real-Time Search,... →
Facebook has released its new and improved search to all members in another attempt to take on Twitter. Tags: facebook twitter search realtime news Posted by: socialspacestation
Aug 11th
Delicious Creator Quietly Launches Threaded... →
Joshua Schachter, creator of Delicious just released a lightweight site for starting and managing threaded conversations between tweeple. Tags: twitter conversation threaded news …
Aug 11th
Gartner Hype Cycle 2009: Web 2.0 Trending Up,... →
“Analyst firm Gartner has just released its latest Hype Cycle white paper, detailing some of the biggest trends in technology this year.” (c/o NS) Tags: twitter trending 2009 gartner
Aug 11th
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The Social Space Station is now open for content!
For its lifetime, the Social Space Station has effectively been a solo mission, at least content wise (barring one contribution that is). So, now the time has come to open up shop to all who wish to publish content online but have never had the opportunity to do so. To assist, the excellent and innovative folks at Tumblr have recently provided a submission system to help encourage community...
Aug 11th
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Aug 11th
BREAKING: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed | Mashable →
“Huge news in the world of social media today: FacebookFacebook has acquired online activity aggregator FriendFeedFriendFeed.” Tags: friendfeed facebook acquisition business news …
Aug 10th
Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind... →
A blind test was undertaken on search results from Google, Yahoo and Bing. The idea is to remove brand influence from perceived quality of results. Tags: search google yahoo bing …
Aug 9th
16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap |... →
Here is an informative review of 16 online file sharing services from techcrunch. The Social Space Station uses box.net and drop.io. Tags: filesharing internet services news Posted…
Aug 9th
Ongoing denial-of-service attack | Twitter Status →
Twitter reports on progress recovering from continued DOS attacks on its servers. Expect performance issues Tweeple. Tags: twitter denialofservice dos blog status Posted by: …
Aug 6th
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Inaugural IRGO unConference 1.0: NZ Digital...
IRGO is pleased to be hosting the inaugural IRGO unConference on the 23rd and 24th of November 2009 at the Centre for Innovation, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand).  The topic of the unConference is “New Zealand’s Digital Futures.”  Our opening address will be by Professor Greg Hearn, Director of the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT.  Our closing...
Aug 6th
Emergency alert provider sues Twitter over patents... →
As Twitter’s ongoing global love-in continues it was only a matter of time before the inevitable patent violation law suits. Tags: twitter patent violation sue news Posted by: …
Aug 5th
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Aug 3rd
Social Networking on Intranets | Jakob Nielsen's... →
“Community features are spreading from ‘Web 2.0’ to ‘Enterprise 2.0.’ Research across 14 companies found that many are making productive use of social intranet features.” Tags: interface …
Aug 3rd
Coming This September: Twitpocalypse Now Redux! |... →
The second Twitpocalypse is on its way and soon thanks to 2009 Twitter popularity. This time it is the 32bit unsigned integer maxing out. Tags: twitpocalypse twitter integer identifier
Aug 3rd