w00t I’m having lunch at Zinc with Erietta of Cyberworx and Josephine Sabine of Spot Wireless tomorrow. Erietta is mastering Drupal at the moment. Drupal is an open source content management platform that handles the collaborative modules very well. Plus it has a nice online community of developers who also happen to be a bunch…
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…
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