Category: social media
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What is web 2.0 the Video
This video about Web 2.0 is sort of cheesy and full of simplistic analysis (and annoying Californians) but there are some good ideas if you can sift through the fluffy West-Coast crap. But hey, lots of crap; isn’t this yet another definition of Web 2.0? Stick with the video; it does get better towards the…
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Building a Collaborative Knowledge Space for Humanist Scholars
The University of Sydney has made some bold moves into Humanities Computing and Social Software in recent years. Their ‘Knowledge Space’ initiative, led in part by Ian Johnson, Director of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, is one of the most interesting projects of its type in Australia. Here is an abstract of a talk that he…
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Why did Rupert Murdoch buy My Space?
One can have free web hosting but then special features like backup or data saving or even domain names of your choice are seldom available. _____________________________________________ Here is the interview that Wired Magazine did with Rupert Murdoch about why he bought MySpace for $580 million. Thanks to Rory of BKK Architects for the link. Perched…
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The Long View of Identity
An excellent artictle by Andy Oram on identity and social software (Web2.0) The vision driving this article is a fervent belief among a far-flung set of researchers, software vendors, and system administrators: when people bring parts of their identities online, they can use the internet more effectively. Commerce sites can recognize them, participants in forums…
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What is new about new media?
1) What is media convergence and how is it facilitated by the Internet? 2) What opportunities does media convergence provide for both the a producer and audience of a newmedia work? (or why is new media new?) Google is an example of a technology company that until very recently, only existed within the realm of…
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Live Media
Here is an 'interpretation' of 'WEB2.0' from the perspective of 'live media'. This caught my eye because the author takes a non-technological-determinist perspective (always a much more sophisticated position). There are alot of talanted people coming out of Britain in the Web2.0 world (link ) Live Media is different. It is about conversations and content…