A Moment of Silence, Please
I am 40 today. There will be no posts today because I am sulking. But at least the waiter is getting old too.
Browsing Month »September, 2006«
Pretty Infographic; No Substance
September 29, 2006
Research outfit InStat has produced a press release relating to a new report. The release, which was promoted to the digg home page, says that: User-Generated Content (UGC), such as that found on YouTube and MySpace, will continue to grow significantly in popularity and generate increasing revenue over the next several years, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). By [...]
PageRank
September 29, 2006
Google is apparently updating PageRanks. According to this tool, I’m headed for PR6, which I take to mean ‘occasionally credible’. Fair enough. Still, after three months at PR0, I’m feeling pathetically grateful.
links for 2006-09-29
September 29, 2006
Debunking the MySpace Myth of 100 Million Users at Forever Geek Random testing would suggest half that number. (tags: myspace networking web2.0) Your Guide to Citizen Journalism Great explanation and overview of the debate by Mark Glaser with a good list of external links. (tags: blogging journalism CitizenJournalism socialmedia) A Discussion with danah boyd Video of Danah Boyd speaking on the subject [...]
What is Non-Linear Search?
September 29, 2006
I was asked about non-linear search and said I’d give it a go. (The question comes from Simon Collister, who I am sure has a few ideas of his own up his sleeve. But since he wrote a fab post about tagging, which in turn fuelled my own effort on the subject, it’s definitely my turn [...]
Text 100 Video on Second Life
September 28, 2006
The first PR company to start a virtual office in Second Life starts to introduce its services. “What would happen if your company built a space where customers could interact with your brand and products whenever they wanted to”. Companies will be able to “market their products with much more efficiency” as a result. Apparently. Update: [...]
It’s a Tag World, My Masters
September 28, 2006
Exactly how useful are tags? Tags and tagging are a big part of the Web 2.0 ethos. Instead of sorting items into folders, you describe them with a series of words. The words you use, the ‘tags’, are up to you. Some people refer to this as ‘folksonomy’ in the sense that tags are home-grown and [...]
Three Cheers for Twonks
September 27, 2006
The Inquirer, curmudgeon central at the best of times, isn’t entirely pleased about the arrival of the read/write web, social media or the whole ‘letting ordinary people onto the internet’ thing. Yesterday’s article – ‘Web 2.0 is for complete twonks’ – is a masterpiece of spite and elitism, which left me chuckling even as it [...]
links for 2006-09-27
September 27, 2006
Techdirt: Attention All PR People: Stop Sending Us Press Releases move to RSS says Amy Gahran (tags: PR RSS) Social Media Club » The Importance of Social Media Hmmm…the future of Social Media, next steps [for getting there] and changing the world. (tags: blogs socialmedia media) ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Reference Center Essential technologies and concepts for understanding the Web as a Platform. (tags: [...]
A Delicious Secret Sauce
September 26, 2006
Less than a week after the service’s third birthday, social bookmarking service del.icio.us has announced an important milestone on its blog: …del.icio.us has just passed the mark of 1 million registered users! That’s more than triple the number of users we had just nine months ago. We can hardly believe it ourselves (although the smell of [...]
Watching Your Words
September 25, 2006
Techcrunch’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reveals an interesting new technology development designed to improve the podcast format: Seattle based podcast discovery and management service Pluggd is unveiling a major new feature at DEMO this weekend that combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to let users search for and skip to parts of an audio file that are related [...]
2020 Internet Vision
September 25, 2006
Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its second Future of the Internet survey, with experts and pundits broadly agreeing that by 2020: A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening†world. Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents†proliferate. However, [...]
Recent Comments
- Die Helden sollten sich Cirie gestimmt. Sie ist ni...
- The problem with the reasoning in this article is ...
- I'm not surprised this is still going on. I still ...
- Ads are a bit like bad breath. From my friends I t...
September 30, 2006