Musings on the new Internet
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Citizen journalism, New media, Social networking on Nov 17th, 2007
Web 2.0 and social media are having a big impact not only in the way people interact with each other but, perhaps even to a greater extent, in transforming the ways in which big media companies and advertisers will do business in the future.
The impact is real and I think we are only seeing the […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Social networking on Nov 1st, 2007
Google has announced “OpenSocial”, a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web designed to create an alternative developer platform to that offered by Facebook.
Founding partners of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.
And today “MySpace”, the world’s […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Citizen journalism, New media, Social networking on Oct 22nd, 2007
Posted in Wired, Twitters Nate Ritter and Viss are closely following the events surrounding the California fires and posting updates of evacuations, things that are needed, and other important information.
Nate and Viss are using the hashtag #sandiegofire. Twitter users can enter “track sandiegofire” in SMS or IM and receive notifications whenever a tweet goes […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Technology on Oct 21st, 2007
Information R/evolution, another excellent video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University.
The narrative brings us from the times of catalogs and shelves to the revolution of links and universal ubiquitous information sources that is Web 2.0. We are the real links to information.
The first video of Wersch’s view of […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0 on Oct 20th, 2007
Flickr is a great platform to share photos but it is quite limited in what you can do to the photos after you upload them to your site.
Now we learn that Flickr has partnered with Seattle-based Picnick to add photo editing capabilities to the site:
Users will be presented with an edit option on the photo […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Media, Social networking, Technology on Oct 20th, 2007
I don’t watch much TV other than news and a few sporting events but I am always amazed at the way different media continue to converge and be used in ways that were not even imaginable a couple of years ago.
The next episode of CSI:NY to be aired next Wednesday and known as CSI:NY does […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, New media, Social networking on Oct 9th, 2007
An interesting move happened today in what may be Google’s next step in its efforts to revive social networking as part of their global strategy.
I mentioned yesterday that Google was getting ready to launch Orkut 2.0.
Today Jaiku announced that they are being acquired by Google.
With the acquisition of Jaiku Google will gain access to Jaiku […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Business models, Social networking on Oct 4th, 2007
IDC predicts that the social networking application market will expand 120% in 2007.
Estimated at $46.8 million in 2006, this market will grow to $428.3 million by 2009 “creating a new application segment and establishing social networking as a new communications tool used for many purposes other than consumer socializing.”
IDC identifies three social networking segments emerging:
self-service […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0 on Oct 2nd, 2007
After launching the real-time query suggestions last July, Yahoo! Search has now improved its search capabilities by releasing the new Yahoo! Search Assist.
Search Assist is an Ajax assistant pane that drops down to give you suggestions to complete the keywords, as well as related concepts that you might want to try.
The keyword suggestions appear in […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, New media on Sep 28th, 2007
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