Social Network Telecommunications view presentation (tags: open-mesh fon telecommunications to) Whew, I just got home from presenting on Social Network Telecommunications – the Consumer as ISP at Broadband Australia 2008 conference. Anyway, I thought I’d take you through the slides (above), which develop further my other open mesh blog posts. The First Bit (up to slide 6) Click or got to Flickr for full view of diagram I wanted to show that currently social media is still very 2.0. Locked down content. The user generated video or podcast or photo or mix of all goes in the content box. It’s Continue Reading…
Jul 242008
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:43 pm Tagged with: ad-hoc network, Adelaide Uni, analog, British Telecom, broadband, consumer economy, economy, free/cheap wireless solution, ISP, John Lindsay, Kentucky, mesh network routers, mesh networking, mobile, Monetization, New Zealand, normal router, open source router, peer to peer, peer2peer, social media, Social Media Australia, Social Network Telecommunications, social networks, telecommunications, telstra, United Kingdom, user generated content, video, vodafone, web 2.0, Western Australia, wireless devices, youtube
Jul 242008
… or, are blogs dying/dead?Click for readable diagram: Any content site that is pre-prepared content, single channel, little crossover, lecture style etc. The problem with blogs is they aren’t collaborative. Yes of course it’s possible to have a conversation. People can leave comments on your blog – the Dine In version. Or they can comment in their own blog post, linking back to yours (Take Out or TakeAway). Or a mashup of the two, by commenting on an RSS feed about your blog. But it ain’t collaborative. I’m speaking here specifically about Blogs. Blogs are portals for content you create Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:45 pm Tagged with: Bloggerati, broadband, consumer economy, content site, coughs, economy, mobile, Monetization, Online Communities, peer to peer, peer2peer, producer, social media, Social Media Australia, social media content, social network, social networks, telecommunications, user generated content, video, youtube
Jun 292008
Hmmm: Grant to strengthen consumer voice in telecommunications The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today announced funding to assist in the establishment of a new telecommunications consumer peak body. “The Government wants to give consumers a more powerful and effective voice in the development of telecommunications policy,” Senator Conroy said. “To demonstrate our commitment to strengthening the consumer voice I have provided a grant of $87,000 to the Consumers’ Telecommunications Network (CTN) on behalf of the working group of consumer representation bodies.” (Gov Media Release) Maybe we should give the money to whirlpool.net.au? I Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:59 pm Tagged with: broadband, consumer economy, economy, minister, Monetization, Online Communities, peer2peer, Social Media Australia, social networks, stephen conroy, telecommunications, telecommunications consumer peak body, telecommunications policy, USD
Jun 102008
From Isco 72 on Flickr: Isole Maldive, Atollo di Ari, Bathala Hell Yeah: Dreaming of Beach Holidays Posted: 10 Jun 2008 12:22 AM CDT With the winter weather upon us, it seems Australians are looking to escape the cold with a Queensland holiday rather than making the most of the snow fields, with searches for ‘dreamworld’, ‘hamilton island’, ‘australia zoo’, ‘gold coast accommodation’ and ‘movie world’ appearing amongst the top 30 search terms referring traffic to the Travel – Destinations and Accommodation industry during the 12 weeks ending 07/05/2008. Comparatively, during the same period only 3 ski holiday terms appeared, Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:24 pm Tagged with: Online Communities, Queensland, search terms referring traffic, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, web 2.0
Jun 092008
Create a Profile. Fill out your Identity. Undertake activities and discussions to gain a Reputation (good or bad). Leads to Trust. Once you have Trust you can take on Leader or other Roles in a social network. No request to fill out a profile or create an identity? Then how do you propose to do the rest? In my Rules of Engagement (see top right hand side of this blog) I have as one of the rules: 8. Participant shall not post comments containing personal phone numbers or addresses. I choose to show my personal details. Others may or may Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:35 pm Tagged with: consumer economy, Duncan, economy, Heidelberg Magistrate's Court, Identity, Jeremy Sear, Monetization, Online Communities, peer2peer, social media, social networks, web 2.0
May 292008
There are now three peer to peer or social lending banks in Australia, as far as I can determine. Well Fosik hasn’t launched yet… but it’s the latest one I have found:Here is a chart:Sorry it’s unreadable, it’s the same on their site… So instead of asking your bank manager for a loan, ask the social network. An eBay of loans – except there is not one “winner” – 99 people might finance 56% of your loan. Fosik is under Beta Test so I’ll show you the one from Prosper.comShows the % of the loan so far funded, with number Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:40 pm Tagged with: Amazon, Bank, bank account, bank manager, banking, Britain, ebay, finance, manager for a loan, peer to peer, social bank launch, social lending site, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, telecommunications, United Kingdom, United States, USD, web 2.0
May 272008
Near and dear to my heart… | View | Upload your own The banks should be trembling. Nice preso, Sparkbuoy in New Zealand! My previous posts: Citizen Bankers and Peace Prizes (2006), Social Lending Peer to Peer Banking in Australia (2007) Australia, Social lending in social networks (2007), Social network economy or the new digital economy (2008) Business week says that social lending will be worth 10.6 billion dollars in the next oh, 18months. KaChing! Loan defaults are LOWER than in traditional banks. Tags: social networks, Online Communities, Bank, peer2peer, Australia, zopa, prosper, circle lending, social lending, digital economy, citizen Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:39 am Tagged with: Bank, Online Communities, peer to peer, Social Media Australia, social networks, USD
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 the banks in the same way Web 1.0 screwed Music industry. Not social media, straight p2p banking sites. RECRUITMENT 2.0 – already recruitment is dead. In Australia, the big recruiters have been busily buying up any small recruitment company that has been able to Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:43 pm Tagged with: business, China, CNY, collaborative products, consumer economy, customers creating products, economy, Facebook, flat web page, Hugh Mcleod, iphone, lawyer and a secretary and a web designer, Monetization, Online Communities, online currency transactions, p2p, peer to peer, peer2peer, personal banking, satellite communities, second life, seth godin, social media, Social Media Australia, social media economy information, social network, social networks, straight p2p banking sites, Twitter, United States, USD, Yahoo!
w00t we make a difference! Mark Pesce started it, me and a handful of others have been blogging about it. Ajay and Myles even established a mashup ICanHazMeraki.Net (why isn’t it embeddable? Grrr ajay!) Anyway, Sydney Morning Herald has caught on: A group of socially networked geeks hopes to bring free wi-fi to the masses, reports Simon Sharwood. FRUSTRATED by the NSW Government’s stalled free wi-fi project, a group of Facebookers have decided to start their own. Yep Aussie Facebookers might be wasting $5 million of employers money, but at least they are doing it bringing down telecommunications companies It Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:14 pm Tagged with: consumer economy, economy, free internet access, free wireless network, Google, mark pesce, mesh network, mesh network technology, Monetization, NSW Government, Online Communities, peer2peer, social networks, start-up, Sydney, Sydney Free Wireless, Wi-Fi
Priscilla Brice Weller is a leading Web 2.0 evangelist in the Not For Profit Sector in Australia. I even copy her haircut. You don’t need to know that though. Leadership 2008 will be a very interesting year. I have been awarded a place on the Sydney Leadership program and am quite excited, dumbfounded and nervous about it. It will be a chance for me to find out more about how the real world works rather than taking a theoretical view of life from my computer Here’s a blurb about the program that inspired me to apply: Sydney Leadership will open Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:17 am Tagged with: Social Media Australia, social networks, Sydney Leadership, web 2.0
Feb 102008
Superduper stuff. Me ‘n Ajay ‘n the usual suspects err hosts of EEL chatting about the future of bio-informatics and GPS/Location Based Services, and the impact of virtual currency on economies. Futuristic stuff that is starting to happen today. In this first show for 2008 Laurel Papworth is handed the reigns to drive the show and brings a guest Ajay Ranipeta to have a chat. Ajay talks about Bio Informatics while as usual everyone else goes off on other interesting tangents (Led by Laurel of course). Dave is missing for the first half of the show but joins later. Imagine Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:17 pm Tagged with: Ajay Ranipeta, consumer economy, E.O. Wilson, economy, Future, GPS, laurel papworth, Monetization, peer2peer, Social Media Australia
Feb 062008
Or maybe I should say revenue back to the consumer for consumer generated content: O2 and 3 Merge Communities Network rivals O2 and 3 are going to merge their two user-generated content communities into a single collective. The new community, to be named Eyevibe, will see O2′s LookatMe and 3′s SeeMeTV video services bundled together collecting over 60,000 videos. The service enables subscribers throughout the UK to submit video clips on any subject to an online gallery, which can be viewed by other users on their mobile handset. Each time a clip is downloaded, the original content contributor receives a Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:57 pm Tagged with: cellphone, Chief Technology Officer, consumer economy, Dave Springall, director, director marketing, economy, GBP, Grahame Riddell, head of content, John Penberthy-Smith, Marketing, mobile, Monetization, O2 UK, Online Communities, online gallery, peer2peer, pence, social network, social networking, social networks, United Kingdom, user generated content, video services, Yospace
Bumpz0red because I added in the stats from Hitwise.For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.Freerice needs to have a much better backstory/about section than this (is it really for the UN?): FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com. FreeRice has two goals: Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site. Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:50 pm Tagged with: CEO, consumer economy, economy, internet users, Monetization, New Zealand, Online Communities, peer2peer, poverty site, sister site, Social Media Australia, social networks
You know eyeballs marketing or Olde Worlde economy – business to business (B2B) and business to consumer(B2C)? Attention Economy online – where is our attention? Well Doc Searls talks about The Intention Economy (consumer to business or C2B) . Where the consumer says what he wants and the business vies for attention/intention. That was back in 2006 and the world has changed. Oh how it has changed. The New Economy is not Attention, Intention, Communication or Creation (media) but Action Economy. Consumers meeting Consumers needs. C2C. Don’t listen to PR slash Marketing slash Advertising folk – they focus on their Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:42 pm Tagged with: Avis Wizard, Bank, book travel, broadband, business to business, car rental customer, car rental market, Caribbean, consumer economy, cricket, ebay, economy, Facebook, Federal Reserve System, food, Hertz 1 Club, Lending Club, micro finance, Monetization, Online Communities, peer2peer, Root.net, Seth Goldstein, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, telecommunications networks, travel agency, Twitter, web 2.0, youtube
Mar 042007
I wrote about caughtya.org a little while ago on here. It’s an online community for people to post photos of drivers who park in disabled parks. And aren’t disabled. Here’s a similar Singaporean edition, called ParkingIdiots. Another idiot to learn a lesson. This time a Nissan at NUS. Good place to learn lessons. Check out how close the 2 cars are – the wing mirrors are overlapping! Relatively new car, and an off-peak plate at that – driver must be a newbie – should go back to primary school, instead of uni. What an idiot! Citizen Parking Inspector? *shudders* Now Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:57 pm Tagged with: Citizen Parking Inspector, Nissan, Online Communities, online community, Social Media Australia, social networks, user generated content
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