Browsing Tag Social Networking
The world map of Social Networking
By Simon T Small at November 7, 2010 | 8:50 am | 0 Comment
Flowtown have made this awesome visualisation of the social media world, using data from Alexa.com, Compete.com, MSNBC.com, Wikipedia.com, About.com, Facebook.com, Twitter.com, TechCrunch.com, Sulake.com and the Wall Street Journal. UPDATE: Here's one by xkcd /thanks to Rob! more...
Police 2.0 – enlisting the internet.
By Marcel Moniaga at November 1, 2009 | 10:11 pm | 0 Comment
Read this article today on how NSW Police use Twitter and YouTube to track criminals. Police has gone to the public many times before in the past asking for helps, putting up rewards for information on radio, tv, print and milk cartons. This time, it isn't any different, the only different is just the medium, and probably a logical one too given the growth of these more...
Almost.at
By Stuart Sheridan at October 27, 2009 | 6:37 am | 0 Comment
http://almost.at/ An online application that aggregates news from sites such as Twitter, Flickr, Youtube in real-time and then allows viewers to tag messages from users who appear to be actually witnessing an event, and that user's future posts will be given prominence in search more...
Lufthansa launches MySkyStatus service
By Ali Wong at October 27, 2009 | 6:06 am | 0 Comment
German airline Lufthansa has launched the free MySkyStatus service where fliers can register for flight status updates to be posted automatically to their Facebook or Twitter profiles. Available for flights on any airline, passengers enter their flight details and Facebook or Twitter login details beforehand, and MySkyStatus will post regular updates about their more...
http://vark.com
By Stuart Sheridan at October 20, 2009 | 1:09 am | 0 Comment
Interesting search engine. Get answers from real people. Taps into the whole trend of the power of influence in product/service decision making from other users online. Nice idea. Uses your Facebook and IM and email to deliver the answers quickly. Took less than 2min for someone to send me an accurate and relevant and useful answer. **UPDATE 22/10/09** This is a more...
“Slugging”
By Stuart Sheridan at August 21, 2008 | 10:59 pm | 1 Comments
Listening to Adam Spencer on my drive to work (as I do each morning) on ABC 702 he referenced a new trend (or fad or something) called "Slugging". In essence, Slugging is a quasi formal socially driven car pooling concept, born in the USA (Washington DC actually). Slugs (i.e. hopeful passengers) gather in "known" slug-gathering locations, and drivers pull up with more...