These four news items and issues are based in the same quandry: how do we, as a society, deal with placing the control of our content in the hands of a few big providers?[...]
Archive for the ‘social tools’ Category
February 18th, 2010 - 2:11 pm § in social tools
We the people vs Facebook, Google et al.
Tags: facebook, foursquare, google, Privacy, social networking, twitter No Comments
DIY Publicity: promoting your band through social networking
A friend of mine has a band. They are great musicians and fun people — the consumate performers. They are busily working their contacts in the music industry and in discussions with record labels for contracts. They have a lot going for them, but when it comes to gigs… Disappointingly fe[...]
Tags: blogs, Marketing, music, social networking, viral marketing 1 Comment
February 23rd, 2007 - 6:11 pm § in social tools
The spam of my blog
Because it’s a Friday, and because this has made me laugh through the week, I’d like to share with you a bit about my blog’s spam. Quick background: let me help you boost your search ranking Google ranks web pages based on a formula which includes their popularity (measured by how [...]
Tags: blogs, spam, user behaviour 3 Comments
January 31st, 2007 - 4:54 pm § in online communities, social tools
Privacy legislation and teenagers: Leave me and my Facebook alone!
Developing an adolescent network of friends Being a teenager, for me, was largely a trial-and-error process of figuring out how to be an adult. I wanted autonomy, I wanted to succeed, and I wanted to be able to ask for help — but only on my terms. I created a “family” of friends, r[...]
Tags: Privacy, social networking 2 Comments
November 9th, 2006 - 4:56 pm § in online communities, social tools
Knowledge sharing for the over-18s
I didn’t intend for this blog to be quite so adult in its themes, but this was just too funny to pass up. (And I swear, I found it legimitately, searching for social networking resources!) The porn community, one of the largest online group of content sharers and *ahem* common-interest enthusi[...]
November 2nd, 2006 - 11:46 am § in collaboration, social tools
Internet art: displaying our messages and feelings
These are from the Yahoo! Time Capsule, a fascinating bit of collaborative art. The capsule is accepting contributions from any and all from the 10th of October to the 8th of November. This electronic anthropology project will be preserved by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in Washington D.C. These [...]
October 25th, 2006 - 2:43 pm § in social tools
$100million could set us free
10 days ago, Jimmy Wales at the Wikimedia Foundation issued the world the following challenge: Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you like to see purchased and released under a free license? Photos li[...]
October 17th, 2006 - 10:45 am § in social tools
The biggest blog in history – join in!
History Matters – pass it on is run by the main heritage organisations in England and Wales including the National Trust, English Heritage, the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Council for British Archaeology, Heritage Link, Historic Houses Association and the[...]
Tags: blogs, UK culture No Comments
October 16th, 2006 - 11:06 am § in social tools
Management mistakes: what to learn from Friendster
It seems to me that in this field there is an eternal tension between technologists who can make things, users who take them into their own lives, and companies/management who are essential for it all to happen. Wallflower at the Web party was in yesterday’s New York Times (re-posted here, no [...]
Tags: articles, social networking No Comments
October 6th, 2006 - 12:15 pm § in social tools
Questions on social searching
Is there any documentation on the value of saving searches? It seems to me that once you’ve looked for something and found it, you’ll either not need to find it again (you’ll have your question answered) or you’ll remember what path got you to the pot of gold in the first pla[...]
Tags: search 4 Comments