From the monthly archives:

March 2008

April Fool’s Day rituals: Whirlpool and NineMSN

by Laurel Papworth on March 31, 2008 · 0 comments

Warning! Warning! ***Spoiler*** Don’t read ahead if you still like to believe in Santa Claus and pixies and that social networks will solve world hunger, global warming and your personal financial woes.
Communities offline and online have rituals. It could be an Easter egg hunt at Easter, or Talk like a Pirate Day, or even just [...]

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unEvent: unOrganised at BarCamp3 this weekend

by Laurel Papworth on March 30, 2008 · 2 comments

Click for full size: nominate yourself to present or be on a debate/panel and you’ll be given a soapbox from which to do it! Or just register to come and listen and yell out stuffz.
BarCamps are unEvents with unSpeakers and are unOrganised. To find out what that means, you have to attend. [...]

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Social aggregator sites

by Laurel Papworth on March 30, 2008 · 9 comments

There are currently a bunch of aggregator sites that are causing buzz. Plaxo Pulse, Tabber, SocialThing. I’m not sure this is the way forward, more of a stepping stone to Web 3.0 little bits everywhere (they look too much like personal portals to me). Here’s a response to an discussion on the topic that [...]

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Social Network Economy or new Digital Economy

by Laurel Papworth on March 29, 2008 · 3 comments

Not my usual well thought out – *frowns at you* – post , just some jottings on the consumer economy.
BANKING 2.0 – social network personal banking and peer to peer loans will take off in a big way. Perhaps not the way Virgin Money/CircleLending, or Zopa or Prosper see it, but it will happen. Screws [...]

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JOB: WikiSpaces Engineer (Move to San Fran)

by Laurel Papworth on March 29, 2008 · 3 comments

Seek.com.au have got a job advertised for Aussies, asking them to move to San Franscisco:
Wikispaces Software EngineerWikispaces.com is looking for a software engineer to build and scale our quickly-growing web application.
This position is full time.This position is in San Francisco.
We’re a small team working on a big site, and we’re looking for a passionate engineer [...]

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Australia: Paull Young (Converseon) on Advertising in Social Networks

by Laurel Papworth on March 28, 2008 · 0 comments

Heh. Aussie boy blogger makes good in New York (FOX BUSINESS):Paull Young is with Converseon. And on Twitter (@paullyoung). *waves across the pond* So amusing to hear that accent amongst the NooYawkers.

Tags: Paull Young, Converseon, Fox Business, Advertising, social networks, New York

Technorati Tags: Australia, NEW YORK, Paull Young, social networks, Twitter

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Facebook: Friends aren’t real friends

by Laurel Papworth on March 27, 2008 · 1 comment

You had better be real scared if you offer me friendship on Facebook – I might take out a court case against you instead of simply Decline and Block. Not. Sheesh.

Facebook friends are not real friends: Judge (Daniel Emerson from Sydney Morning Herald)
A British judge has made official what many of us have long suspected [...]

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Twitter : Open for Sexual Stalking?

by Laurel Papworth on March 27, 2008 · 8 comments

Edit: @Oddfollow, not Oddfellow. Summary: A stalker on Twitter? The formation of the @stalkerwarning account (now @oddfollow) and the Breasts of Twitter. Twitter is an unusual community in that it has no clear moderation (police) and no clear Code of Conduct, due to being a fully gated community.
I received a private warning yesterday on [...]

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Bimbo: Avatars about as smart as WE are

by Laurel Papworth on March 26, 2008 · 3 comments

…unfortunately.

A U.K. Web site allows users — some of whom are as young as 8-years-old — create virtual “bimbos” who can then undergo breast augmentation and take diet pills. (ABCNews Photo Illustration) From ABC website
Bratz pushed the boundaries – the girl dolls have g-strings – but this game takes the cake. Or doesn’t cos, [...]

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WDS08: WebDirections South 2008 Program

by Laurel Papworth on March 26, 2008 · 1 comment

Event: I owe Maxine Sherrin and John Allsop a lot you know:

Have your say in the Web Directions South 2008 program

Every year the Web Directions conference brings together a group of expert speakers who have been working on interesting projects and finding ingenious [...]

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Jeremiah Owyang and managing communities

by Laurel Papworth on March 25, 2008 · 2 comments

Jeremiah is an analyst for Forester- here’ s a high level overview (very high level) of a presentation he gave Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and you can read more on his blog:

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I’m a little uncomfortable seeing those slides. I think you know I am pretty quick to hat tip [...]

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Downtime

by Laurel Papworth on March 25, 2008 · 1 comment

I’ve spoken a few times in workshops and written here on the bloggy (e.g. April last year) about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Jean-Marie Guitera from Subversive Games mentioned it tonight at AIMIA Oline Games as if it was something new – I think he said no-one in the States was following it. But that can’t [...]

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AIMIA Event – Tonight: Virtual Worlds and online games

by Laurel Papworth on March 24, 2008 · 0 comments

Who’s going to Online Games drinkies tonight? Hmm Friends don’t let friends drink and game…

Online games going mainstream – the implications for the media and advertising industries
The Online games industry is morphing into a compelling new medium. We are seeing the convergence of games, movies, virtual worlds and social networking applications into an environment where [...]

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Government disables educational blog

by Laurel Papworth on March 23, 2008 · 4 comments

From Alan Levine (CogDog):

Sometime last year before my trip to Australia, I discovered the amazing work Al Upton was doing with year 3 students at at Adelaide Australia primary school. The 8 and 9 year old “miniLegends” were blogging, doing creative writing, and getting a fabulous experience in web technology.
So it was exciting this year [...]

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