Australia: Twitter 800k of users in June
Some statistics around Australian use of social networks such as MySpace Facebook Twitter and other social media sites in June 2009.
Mars and Twitter
Mars Lander is Twittering – get Tweets from Mars! Feature: Mars Phoenix on Facebook and Twitter5/19/08 JPL has a page on social-networking site Facebook where you can track the Mars Phoenix Lander mission. Find JPL on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pasadena-CA/Jet-Propulsion-Laboratory-JPL/8261258923 JPL is also using micro-blogging site Twitter to give regular updates about Mars Phoenix. Subscribe to…
Facebook: Friends aren’t real friends
You had better be real scared if you offer me friendship on Facebook – I might take out a court case against you instead of simply Decline and Block. Not. Sheesh. Facebook friends are not real friends: Judge (Daniel Emerson from Sydney Morning Herald) A British judge has made official what many of us have…
Twitter : Open for Sexual Stalking?
Edit: @Oddfollow, not Oddfellow. Summary: A stalker on Twitter? The formation of the @stalkerwarning account (now @oddfollow) and the Breasts of Twitter. Twitter is an unusual community in that it has no clear moderation (police) and no clear Code of Conduct, due to being a fully gated community. I received a private warning yesterday on…
Australia: Facebook for Business
I was cleaning out my Inbox (anything rather than write a report that has to be in today, or clean the house) and came across this from Sep 2006. I had notes which add up to: Hmmm, Facebook… could be huge but not sure if Australia will get it. *rolls eyes* Facebook Opens Enrollment To…
White Paper: Social Networking Primed To Go Mobile
A new study from IpsosInsight (pdf), but I gotta say, this PR blurb makes it look like same-old, same-old. Eg. Europeans are more advanced than Americans with using mobile technology. So, I won’t be paying the 2000 bucks for the report. But if you do, and they’ve just marketed the report poorly, lemme know? I’ll…
Australian Traditional Media: Just STOP it.
Steven Lewis of Zest Digital masquerading as a Lollipop Lady? NO! Telling Aussie media to “Just stop it already”. My heart is breaking… 😛 I, like most bloggers, have a love/hate relationship with the Australian traditional media. We LOVE them: listen to everything they say, hang on every word, pore over every article looking for…
Health: Medical online communities
Harvard Medical School doctors go online (from the Boston Globe): Harvard Medical School physicians will begin blogging under a new agreement with Gather.com, a social networking site for adults. Harvard Health Publications, which provides content from the medical school, announced last week that it is launching 35 online communities focusing on different chronic conditions, including…
Web 2.0 Music FasterLouder.com.au and Blender
From Blender magazine by way of FasterLouder.com.au by way of the inimitable Vashti Rosenberg: US magazine Blender has named Steve Jobs and Apple as the world’s most powerful technology trendsetters, placing the company at the very front of the online music revolution that has reshaped the way people listen to, buy and even watch music….
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