Fer Shame. Mr Murdoch from Newscorp talking to, I think, his son-in-law’s press paper thingie, is giving up already on his mastheads. Pffft.Rupert Murdoch has forecast a gloomy future for newspapers with the growth of the internet, saying he doesn’t know “anybody under the age of 30 who has ever looked at a classified ad”.The…
My final comment on Facebook. I promise. This time from the Rocky Mountain Collegian:A message post on these online communities is the lowest form of communication known to man… With too many marketing gimmicks and annoying pop-up ads, the Facebook with its superior format easily overtook Classmates.com… After the move from the Facebook to Myspace.com…
Gal pal, Jo G and I committed a cardinal sin at lunch in Wooloomooloo a few weeks ago; we put ice in our pinot noir. We got soundly told off by the guy (Robbo from Broads2go) at our table and a lovely lunch ended in tears. What can I say? It was warm and icky…
Yeah yeah this report has been around for a while, but it has new meaning now with collaborative user generated education just around the corner:The public directly accesses dot-com or dot-org information sources far more than those of higher education institutions…The college or university has gone from the “center” to an “access node” on the…
I just adore finding obscure online communities.Dairy.com of Dallas, TX, has announced plans to acquire DairyCareers, the leading online recruiting solution for the dairy industry“We are extremely pleased to be a part of Dairy.com,” said Lentsch. “By combining our online communities we have over 2000 registered users across nearly 300 dairy manufacturers, cooperatives and transportation…
… or not. How do you present your image as a College of hardworking studious ummm … students, when all the students want to do is get drunk and then have the temerity to upload images of said drunkeness on the ‘net? The Northerner Online (student newspaper) reports:Facebook postings, photos incriminate dorm party-goersUniversity students caught…
Gerry Block of IGN: Like many other revolutionary concepts in the tech industry, online-multiplayer gaming has progressed though a number of iterations to reach the critical mass it carries today. Over the course of more than a decade (remember Mplayer and Heat.net?) hardware, software, and infrastructure have finally progressed to the point that a seamless…
I’m mad keen on online communities being used for philanthropic ventures. CSRwire is the Corporate Social Responsibility NewsWire Service. GiveMeaning Introduces GivingProfiles, a New Way to Showcase Corporate Social Responsibility(CSRwire) Vancouver, BC – The GiveMeaning Foundation, in partnership with Plenteus Technologies, is pleased to announce that GiveMeaning is the first site to feature GivingProfiles, a…
I’ve been playing with LinkedIn! recently. I must say, it seems like a lot of work, I’m not sure if it will be worth it. I actually joined a few years ago but never bothered with it. But as a business tool, its the best on the market, or so I hear. If that ain’t…