Social Web for Social Good: Change the Web Challenge Calling all web developers! Create a web application by April 3, 2009 that draws on Social Actions’ open database of 60,000 + actions for a chance to win cash prizes: 1st place: $5,000 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 Social Actions currently aggregates opportunities to make…
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….
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…
Don’t be cross with me, but I feel strangely comforted by the thought of a higher authority (Google) watching over me, plumbing the shallow depths of my consciousness, listening to the household dramas (via their ambient patent on PC/mobile device) and sending me signs and symbols (oh, ok, Ads) that I need to hear and…
I am often asked at conferences what I think the future of defamation and copyright and privacy will be, legal-wise. I always feel like a right wally saying “the laws will change, I guarantee it”. It’s the one weak area of my presentation – people understand that change is coming but don’t believe that it…
Never let it be said that I don’t follow through. I blogged the other day about Google having a G’Day California in GooglePlex US to attract employees to come to Australia to work. It’s all happening at 6-9pm today Mountain View California time. I think that’s about 7am to 10am tomorrow our time. Don’t take…
I don’t know why, but I find this a tad embarassing. Are we really that low on IT staff in The Land DownUnder? Shouldn’t we be doing something about it? Having babies maybe? And I thought that Google only liked to employ people from Stanford. Sydney Uni is good but it ain’t Ivy League, is…
From e-consultancy: LiveWorld gets WPP cash injection Ad giant WPP has continued its online spending spree, leading a $2m round of funding in internet marketing outfit LiveWorld. The move comes after WPP and LiveWorld formed a joint venture in July, with both firms saying they have seen growing demand for marketing services focusing on online…
Back in July, I wrote about Technorati doing a deal with AP. And I said that: One day I will go into very real, deep detail why Technorati is the way forward and why Google should be worried. But not today. Hint: It’s not about the search. Associated Press is just starting to get the…