Barack Obama says blogs have no serious fact checking, no context – also noted is that an undercover Huffington Post blogger got damaging information by sneaking into a “no-Press” event.
Politics and social networks don’t mix?And if they do, how do online communities have a say, and aren’t just ‘used’?
I’ve have my doubts about Obama’s commitment to social media. Oh, not to social network marketing – the pushing out, on social media broadcast channels like YouTube and Twitter, of widgets and press releases. But [...]
by Laurel Papworth on December 16, 2008 · 4 comments
New software automatically reaches out of the screen and handcuffs you to Facebook until the court documents arrive. Oh, alright, that’s a fib…
Oh, we love Nick Abrahams at Deacons. Well as much as one can love a lawyer
Australian court serves documents via Facebook
The big question about Facebook is does it have any valuable [...]
by Laurel Papworth on November 20, 2008 · 4 comments
I saw that Meraki has won a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer prize, and it reminded me that a new kind of economy – well, an old one made more feasible through economies of scale – is arising. The Social Economy.
Meraki Inc. USA
Sanjit Biswas, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
www.meraki.com
Meraki Networks, Inc. builds products for wireless [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 2, 2008 · 7 comments
I work with government departments on their social media policies. Both politicans and public servants have some of the same issues. Often showing them case studies of other immigration, tax, heritage, whatever in other countries or other States can help them see how they can sell the idea of conversation into their risk averse cultures. [...]
Well, here it is…
Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website owners can make any site social
Easily insert social features to make “any app, any site, any friends” a reality
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (May 12, 2008) – Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will announce a preview release of Google Friend Connect, [...]
Sitting in my hotel room in Jeddah, trying to resist the lure of waffles with strawberries. Found this article in Gulf Business magazine:
Behind the VeilTo the average observer in the West, women in the Middle East are a repressed gender, confined to their homes by the ‘conservative’ male. The truth is a bit different. There [...]
by Laurel Papworth on February 25, 2007 · 0 comments
Defamation laws need to change. Or the courts will be swamped. Media distribution is now in the hands of everyone, and not everyone will behave themselves:
Fuzzy Wikipedia Entry Leads to Zoeller LawsuitWikipedia founder Jimmy Wales declined to comment on the suit, but he said Wikipedia is no different from any Internet message board — meaning [...]
by Laurel Papworth on December 22, 2006 · 0 comments
From Bizreport by Kristina Knight:
Reuters Partnering With PluckIn a first-of-its-kind move, news syndication company Reuters will begin syndicating blogs. The partnership will join the news service with social media firm Pluck; along with the partnership, Reuters reportedly will invest in the firm.
The partnership with Pluck, which runs BlogBurst syndiators, will give advertisers more variety, [...]
by Laurel Papworth on September 17, 2006 · 0 comments
Snippets from New York Times’ David Barboza article, courtesy of The Ledger Online:
Today, Baidu has a market value of $3 billion and operates the fourth-most trafficked Web site in the world. And Baidu is doing what no other Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home market.
But Baidus evolution, [...]
…and read this. From Dylan Welch at the Sydney Morning Herald:
Medical website hits back at doctors
A professor of medicine working with an online medical diagnosis website says a call by the Australian Medical Association to avoid such sites was ill-informed, and “they need to be open to this new technology”.
NSW AMA President Andrew Keegan [...]
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