Recently at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Kevin Kelly gave a great speech describing his thoughts on where the web is going.
He begins his presentation by stating that it was about 6500 days ago when Berners-Lee created the first web page. The internet began as something which linked computers. Next, web pages emerged and links were shared. Finally, the data within the pages began to become linked with each other. Mr. Kelly describes this process as un-structuring everything in the world down its most elemental form, and then restructuring it so that machines can read it. This restructuring…
Here is a good way to speak up and tell President-elect Obama what matters most to you and for your digital life.
Barack Obama is going to appoint the nation’s first CTO. What are the top priorities?
It’s a simple concept. Each user gets 10 votes to hand out to whichever plans ideas matter the most to them. Users are allowed to use up to 3 of their votes on any one issue, and once you run out, you wait for the idea to get deleted or resolved, or you rearrange your votes.
This could change the face of social media, and this is…
Today, Google also announced that video is an option for chatting. It works with the regular chat services and has many options, such as popping out the video window so you can continue working while chatting.
Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
- Download the Gmail voice and video chat plug-in, quit all open browser windows, and install the plug-in.
- Sign in to Gmail.
- In the Chat section of your Gmail, select the contact you want to call. If they have a camera icon next to their name, you can make a voice or video call to them; just click Video & more.
If your friend…
The fine folks at Google have developed a tracker that follows flu trend in your state or area.
They analyze the search terms for any given area and they have created an formula that correlates those terms to the probability that the flu has been found in that area.
How does it work?
We’ve discovered that there is a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Some search queries tend to be popular exactly when flu season is happening, and are therefore good indicators of flu activity. Our estimates, based on up-to-date…
A public relations colleague of mine made a tweet on Twitter yesterday about some work with elephants and a circus. No, seriously, sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up.
Anyway, her tweet reminded me of a funny definition of public relations I’ve often shared with my journalism and public relations students at Michigan State University.
I emailed it to her and she responded that she’d heard it before and loved it. A few hours later, she sent me a tweet about how our “conversation” had prompted her to blog about the topic. In her blog, she gave me credit for prompting the blog…
MySpace is still trying to find a way to make itself even more profitable. It’s one of the most successful social media platforms available, but they are still not as profitable as they could be.
Following on the heels of Facebook, and even Apple, with the iPhone App store, they are looking for a way to insert virtual gifting and pay-to-use applications. Facebook has an inner site gift economy, though they have not yet opened up the virtual gifting to developers.
The race is on to see which site develops and releases their own pay to play model. The real concern with…
I love social media…particularly social networks. I also love wine. After caving in to familial pressure (the only way my brother would join Twitter) I joined Facebook. Lo and behold I see a message to join a wine lovers community which I naturally did. After being on not even a few minutes, I already zoomed through to check it out.
Since I still have a life, I’ll have to go back at a later time to check it out further. I just hope it doesn’t wind up another Twitter-like addiction.
Twitter is doing its best to be one of the go-to sources during the election in America.
Twitter vote report is a way to let other know of issues voting in your area.
Twitter election 2008 page is a page adding all the election related tweets as well as tweets from the candidates campaign twitter accounts.
Twittervision combines all of the tweets by location, and puts them all on top of a map of America. It’s updated in real time, as the tweets come in.
And, finally, as a diversion while we’re waiting for results, go vote at TwitVote. There are only 2 candidates listed…
Thanks to @keryp on Twitter who retweeted the link for this voting badge…yes, I voted this morning and got my Starbucks after. (Too bad they didn’t extend the free coffee to include lattes.) Yes, you may think it’s last minute–at least I went this morning and not this evening.So, if you haven’t voted yet, what are you waiting for? At least the free Starbucks should be incentive.
Social psychology fascinates me. That’s why when reading about studies regarding social psychology and social media I had to comment. As a result of said article, I found a cool online tool for ‘reading’ into a person’s profile. After trying to interpret a few individual’s ‘true’ personality traits from their online profile, I failed miserably. Goes to show people aren’t always what they appear to be.
