Note: Social Media is user-generated, member created, content. Not interactive stuff from a web agency or traditional media company.I’ve been following 5min_tech on Twitter for a while now. 5min – Find the Best How To, instructional and DIY videos – people uploading 5 min videos to educate other people. It’s called a videopedia. Kinda cool…
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….
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 —…
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…
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…
…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…
2Spare.com (2 Much Time 2 Spare) have a list of the top 87 bad predictions in all sectors. The list has 590 votes. Let me extract out the ones of interest in computing and such – and I’ll add a few at the bottom of recent ones: «640k is enough for everyone.» William F. Gates…
Now that I have your attention. Cheryl Lead, Online Manager over at Virgin Money sent me this info: In June we are lucky to have Joseph Konstan, a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota and President of ACM SIGCHI talk to us about bridging computer science and behavioral science. Please…
On Monday December 5th, Ross Levinsohn, President of Fox Interactive Media, shed light on the strategy behind his company’s high profile acquisition of sites like IGN and Myspace.com in “Storming the Walls: Media Breakout!” You can read up more fully here. The key points, as far as I understand, were that young people don’t read…
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