I’ll be at the Jimmy Wales event this Thursday: Challenging how knowledge is created. education.au proudly presents its first seminar in the 2007 seminar series – Challenging how knowledge is created. The keynote speaker for the seminar, which will be held in Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, is Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales, the man behind Wikipedia, has a vision. The vision is for every person on the planet to be given free access to the sum of all human knowledge, and Wikipedia has been described as an exercise in the democratisation of that knowledge. Wikipedia is also Continue Reading…
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:57 pm Tagged with: Social Media Australia, web 2.0
Short version: When you choose to co-create with a company, the sustainability of your content rises and falls with the fortunes of that company. If Flickr, Second Life, YouTube or *insert name of fave blogging software* vanishes, so does your hard work. … hush now, dry your eyes.The technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite index peaked in March 2000, reflecting the high point of the dot-com bubble Dotcom Crash 1.0 was the crash we had to have. Also known as the TechCrunch (not to be confused with that estimable blog thing), it forced Web beta and Web 1.0 companies to get with market Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:33 pm Tagged with: Amazon, Cisco, crash, Flickr, Google, NASDAQ composite, offbeat technologies, semantic web, social network, social networks, software agents, startup technology, USD, user generated content, web 2.0, Web beta, WorldCom, Yahoo!, youtube
Apr 102007
I rang a friend of mine (male) and gushed that I was quoted in a Web 2.0 article in May’s edition of Vogue Australia (Is your life better online? by Cathrin Schaer). He rang me back a little bit later, most miffed. “There’s NO photos of you, and the magazine is full of ADS!!” Bless. It’s my brains, not my *cough* beauty that got me a few paragraphs. But his response was exactly the same as the father of an ex’s years ago. The same incomprehension as to why women would pay 8 bucks for a fashion magazine while ignoring Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:23 am Tagged with: car magazine, car manufacturers, cough, fashion magazine, laurel papworth, mass media, Online Lives, Social Media Australia, social networks, web 2.0
Apr 062007
Sticking it here on blog because I don’t want to lose it again: $7.4 billion was spent on search engine marketing in 2005 (16% of which was business-to-business). More than 40% of the average marketer’s budget is devoted to search. Nearly 38% of Yahoo’s advertisers are defined as b-to-b. More than 50% of Google’s target advertisers are b-to-b. Nearly 64% of search engine users search for business information first. From Jupiter Research? quoted on Wikipedia. Tags: search, web 3.0, vertical, Jupiter, wikipedia, statistics
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:40 pm Tagged with: Search
Apr 062007
My new addiction is googlesightseeing – why bother seeing the world for real? – people send him Google satellite images of people and places around the earth doing crazy things. One of a guy peeing in the desert in Africa (thrilling discussion here), “keeping up with the Joneses” (rows and rows of long piers in Texas), whale-spotting, and monitoring where Google uses *stock* imagery (such as the pre-hurricane Katrina images of New Orleans fiasco that broke last week). There’s a physical hardcopy book called Off the Map. Perhaps Big Brother Road Tour would be more appropriate? EDIT (TO BE MORE Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:07 pm Tagged with: BBC, Bugatti Veyron, Germany, Google, James May, Maps, production road car, social networks, Top Gear, Volkswagen
Apr 032007
I’m looking for examples of groovy Vertical Search services. Sidestep is one for travel We search over 150 travel websites to bring you the very best travel values on the web. Another would be oodle for classifieds (MySpider in Australia?): Oodle makes it easy to use online classifieds. We bring together loads of listings from hundreds of local and national sources and help you find exactly what you’re looking for — the right job or place to volunteer, the perfect home, or a great deal on a used ladder I’d like examples of straight out spidered search, and then those Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:27 pm Tagged with: Ajax, groovy services, online classifieds, Online Communities, Search, search examples, Social Media Australia, travel values, web 2.0
some of the many many many faces of flickrOriginally uploaded by fubuki. I wrote a couple of days ago how the war between the traditional search types (how funny to say that now, ten years on) and the new social media search evangelists. It’s been on the boil for a while, but search: social media optimization still only has 295,000 hit returns on Google whereas search:search engine optimization has – well gosh! over 30 million! – 30,700,000 returns. That imbalance will change soon. Notice the funny spelling of optimisation? :p If you aren’t uptodate on the basic premise, it’s this. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:53 pm Tagged with: artificial intelligence, Danny Sullivan, Google, laurel papworth, main search, Rohit Bhargava, Search, search engine, search engines, search guru, search returns, search types, site search, social media, Social Media Australia, social media optimisation, social network, Social network search, social networks, target network, Yahoo!, youtube
Mar 262007
In case you can’t read this banner, it says: Following IKEA News and Gossip For The Buckeye State Since 2004: Because Its Okay To Have Your Couch Be Cooler Than You Are.Students in my class laugh at me when I go on and on and on about IKEA. I guess I tried to pick a company that everyone knew but didn’t get too excited about, that had online fans. I mean, of course there are Harley Davison sites and Ducati sites and band and sports sites by fans. But IKEA? Rather than Google IKEA, let’s wiki search it… WikiPedia search: Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:23 pm Tagged with: Belgium, catalogue site, founder, Google, home products retailer, ikea, Inter IKEA Systems B.V., Jonathan Coulton, Mitch Benn, Online Communities, search listings, Social Media Australia, social networks, sports sites, Sweden, The Netherlands, Unofficial IKEA Web Journal, user generated content, youtube
New Zealand Web 2.0/CMS company SilverStripe have made the grade! Google’s Summer of Code 2007 is a bunch of students being paid to develop for open source. Here’s SilverStripe’s blog on it all: Google Summer of Code 2007: We Are In! Posted by Sigurd on 15 March 2007 We are proud to say that Google has accepted SilverStripe to be one of only 113 open source projects globally suitable for the the Google Summer of Code 2007. This will see Google pay USD4500 to top students worldwide to participate in the open source programming community and add great new features Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:42 pm Tagged with: Google, New Zealand, Online Communities, social networks, software, USD, web 2.0
This is from the esteemed Tim O’Reilly’s blog (wiki him here) called O’Reilly Radar: SF Chronicle in Trouble? I hate to play Valleywag, but I’m hearing rumors that the San Francisco Chronicle is in big trouble. Apparently, Phil Bronstein, the editor-in-chief, told staff in a recent “emergency meeting” that the news business “is broken, and no one knows how to fix it.” (“And if any other paper says they do, they’re lying.”) Reportedly, the paper plans to announce more layoffs before the year is out. It’s clear that the news business as we knew it is in trouble. Bringing it Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:41 pm Tagged with: Editor-in-Chief, John Markoff, mobile, Peter Brantley, Peter Lewis, Phil Bronstein, Phil Elmer Dewitt, San Francisco Chronicle, self-service advertising, Social Media Australia, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Warner, web 2.0
Mar 202007
I’ve spoken a number of times that Google’s patent need to create massive backend services is short sighted, and their unwillingness to move heavily into peer2peer solutions is outdated. Maybe it’s just the thought of acres and acres (literally) of hard drives that creeps me out. Usually I am talking in reference to Google Search vs Social Search. But here’s another model: YouTube servers (Google) versus Joost peer2peer (Skype). What makes me laugh is that Viacom has moved from YouTube (leaving behind a 1 billion dollar lawsuit) and gone to Joost. Lovely wikigoodness: Joost (pronounced ‘juiced’) is an interactive software Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:13 pm Tagged with: BET Networks, Endemol, interactive software, Janus, MTV Networks, Online Communities, Paramount Pictures, Skype, social networks, tv technology, Viacom Inc., Warner Music, youtube
Mar 152007
Current.tv has launched in the UK this week, picking up another 25 million subs. They are on Sky (Ch 229) and Virgin (Ch 155). For those who don’t know, Current.tv has 28 million subscribers in The States, runs on Comcast, DirecTV and TimeWarner networks, is user generated content driven – including the ads – and the sponsors include Sony, UniLever, L’Oreal. Oh and the Chair is Al Gore. I was able to grab a word with Kim Williams, Foxtel CEO yesterday, and ask if this piece of Citizen TV goodness was coming to Australia and he said … ‘we are Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:40 pm Tagged with: Al Gore, CEO, Chair, Comcast, David Butorac, food, Foxtel, Foxtel CEO, James Packer, Jeff Cole, Kim Williams, L'Oreal, mainstream media, Online Communities, Pay TV, Social Media Australia, social networks, sony, UniLever, United Kingdom, user generated content, web 2.0
Mar 082007
Digg brought my attention to this What Would Jesus Wiki about conservapedia.com. I think I read something in Wired or RedHerring a few days ago but I noticed that people are taking screenshots *for posterity*. Wiki Information being a transient beast n’ all. An alternative Wikipedia written by conservative Christians has become a major target of mockery on the web. Conservapedia, a wiki-based encyclopedia that offers the historical record from a conservative perspective, is attracting lots of derisive comments on blogs and a growing number of phony articles written by mischief makers. “a growing number of phony articles written by Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:24 pm Tagged with: Google, New Jersey, Online Communities, online educational resources, social networks
Mar 072007
Thanks to my buddy at Virgin for the info: Challenging how knowledge is created. education.au proudly presents its first seminar in the 2007 seminar series – Challenging how knowledge is created. The keynote speaker for the seminar, which will be held in Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, is Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales, the man behind Wikipedia, has a vision. The vision is for every person on the planet to be given free access to the sum of all human knowledge, and Wikipedia has been described as an exercise in the democratisation of that knowledge. Wikipedia is also Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:51 pm Tagged with: Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks, web 2.0
Feb 222007
I was just going through some links in preparation for a course I’m teaching today and I can’t quite remember if I’ve directed you to this site before. But it doesn’t matter because they’ve done a revamp: The largest online community of IKEA customers and fans provides what IKEA itself cannot — personalized service Montross, VA (PRWeb) February 21, 2007 — IKEAFANS.com (www.IKEAFANS.com) is proud to launch a series of site improvements, including blogs, photo galleries and an article database. The site started as a hobby in March 2005 and has turned into the world’s leading resource for IKEA help… Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:14 am Tagged with: Montross, Online Communities, online community, social networks, www.IKEAFANS.com
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